The Universal Programmer Stare

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The Universal Programmer Stare

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Staring at someone else's code with the same intensity as this confused snake is the universal developer experience. The mental gymnastics required to decipher another dev's uncommented spaghetti code feels like trying to read ancient hieroglyphics with a concussion. The irony? We write equally indecipherable code ourselves, convinced it's "self-documenting" until we revisit it 3 months later and wonder which caffeine-fueled demon possessed our keyboard.

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