The paranoia is real. While normal humans click save and move on with their lives, developers exist in a perpetual state of file-saving anxiety. That crucial code you just wrote? Did it actually save? Better check. Then save again. Then one more time for good measure.
It's not paranoia if the system really is out to get you. We've all lost work to the void at least once, and our trauma manifests as this absurd save-check-save-check ritual that no amount of autosave functionality will ever cure.
Ctrl+S is not just a keyboard shortcut—it's a nervous tic developed through years of trust issues with computers.