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The thousand-yard stare of someone who's survived COBOL, Fortran, and that one codebase from 1997 that nobody dares to touch. Senior devs don't just understand legacy code—they were forged in its fires, back when documentation was a sticky note and version control meant making a copy called "final_FINAL_v2_ACTUALLY_FINAL.txt". They don't fear the spaghetti; they've eaten it for breakfast for decades.

Full hazmat suits required for Vim extraction procedures. The desperate scribbling of "ESC :q!" is the universal distress signal among developers. Containment protocols dictate maintaining a safe distance from terminals running Vim without proper exit training. Some say the original developer is still stuck in there since 1991.

THE ABSOLUTE DRAMA of trying to implement a client API that refuses to share its documentation! You're sitting there, practically BEGGING for a crumb of information, and the API is just standing there like "All right then. Keep your secrets." The sheer AUDACITY! You're expected to somehow connect to this mysterious black box while the documentation is locked away in some digital vault guarded by dragons or something. Fine! I'll just reverse engineer your entire system through trial, error, and seventeen mental breakdowns. WHO NEEDS SLEEP ANYWAY?!

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