Two Wolves Inside Every Programmer

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Two Wolves Inside Every Programmer

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Oh. My. God. The DUALITY of a programmer's existence captured in one spiritual symbol! 😱 On one side, we're all like "wtf is a binary tree" during data structure interviews, desperately googling algorithms we've studied 47 times already. Meanwhile, our delusional alter ego is over here thinking "I'll just casually BUILD AN ENTIRE GAME ENGINE FROM SCRATCH" as if that's not the coding equivalent of climbing Everest in flip-flops! The audacity! The delusion! The absolute whiplash between imposter syndrome and god complex that lives rent-free in every developer's brain is just *chef's kiss*. We're either complete idiots or literal coding deities, and there's absolutely no in-between!

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