What’s stopping you from coding like this?

The eternal VS Code addict's bargaining phase. "Just one more extension and I'll be productive, I swear!" Meanwhile, IntelliJ users watch from their feature-complete fortress, sipping coffee that cost as much as their IDE subscription. The extension count hits triple digits while startup time approaches geological epochs. We've all been there — convincing ourselves that this color theme or that bracket colorizer is the missing piece to becoming a 10x developer. Spoiler: it never is.

The classic Tom and Jerry dynamic perfectly captures the debugging experience. You're Tom—armed with your debugger, print statements, and Stack Overflow answers—confidently swinging your bug-squashing pan. Meanwhile, the actual bug is Jerry—tiny, nimble, and always one step ahead, smugly watching as you miss it for the 47th time. The best part? That smirk on Jerry's face says "I'm literally in your code right now and you still can't find me." Happens to the best of us when that semicolon decides to play hide and seek.

That moment when you realize your WHERE clause went missing and you just rewrote half the company's customer data. The cold sweat. The panic. The desperate hope that someone's going to tap you on the shoulder and say "just kidding, there's a backup." But deep down, you know... your resume needs updating faster than those 12 million rows you just mangled.

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