They Read The Friggin Manuals

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They Read The Friggin Manuals

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Ah, the classic "read everything but build nothing" syndrome! This poor soul has gone down the documentation rabbit hole, consuming every tech manual from Java to Kubernetes without writing a single line of actual code. It's like studying the theory of swimming for years without ever getting wet. The tech stack resume is impressive enough to land a senior position, but ask them to print "Hello World" and suddenly they're experiencing an existential crisis. Reading documentation is like watching cooking shows - it doesn't make you a chef until you burn something in the kitchen a few times.

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