The Suspicious Success Paradox

The Suspicious Success Paradox
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The evolution of developer paranoia in two panels:

Junior dev: *code compiles* "WOOHOO! FIRST TRY MAGIC! I'M A CODING GENIUS!"

Senior dev: *code compiles* "...suspicious. Very suspicious. What dark sorcery is this? Something's definitely broken somewhere and I just can't see it yet."

The true mark of experience isn't celebrating success—it's questioning why the compiler didn't put up more of a fight. Nothing builds healthy paranoia quite like years of mysterious runtime errors that followed suspiciously smooth compilations.

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