What having unintended "features" in your code looks like

Content Project Manager: We're going to build a facial-recognition application. Programmer: OK Project Manager: People will put in a photo, and it will search a database for matching faces. Programmer: OK Project Manager: And while it's doing that, it should flash up, on screen, a slide show featuring hundreds of other random faces which definitely aren't a match No that's stupid we're not doing that. Programmer:

The classic SQL injection attack in its natural habitat! Little Bobby Tables strikes again. Someone just crashed an entire system by entering "O'Brian" as their last name, and now the company is frantically tweeting about an "outage." Seven years of developing enterprise software and we're still not escaping our inputs properly. That single apostrophe just caused more damage than any penetration test could've revealed. The DBA is probably having a meltdown right now while management asks, "Have you tried turning it off and on again?"

When your JS skills are so hot that recruiters think you can mix a mean cocktail. Nothing says "tech career pinnacle" like getting job offers to pour drinks because you know how to center a div. Five years of React experience and the algorithm thinks you'd be great at remembering which drinks need little umbrellas. Might as well put "can operate a blender" on your LinkedIn profile next to "full stack developer."

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