The Three Stages Of Coding Reality

The elegant architecture in your head vs. the spaghetti monster that actually compiles. That beautiful algorithm you mentally crafted during your shower? Pure poetry. The code you frantically typed while chugging energy drinks? A syntactic war crime. And then there's the final boss: staring in horror at your program's output like you've just discovered a new species of bug that defies the laws of computer science. The real tragedy is that the gap between imagination and implementation grows wider with each passing deadline.