When you finally get a look at your new companies legacy code

Remember when we thought GPU prices couldn't possibly get worse? Then AI showed up like Patrick Star, gleefully inflating Nvidia's market bubble to astronomical levels. Meanwhile, developers are just sitting there like SpongeBob, watching their dream build slip further away with each new AI model release. The sweet irony of wanting to build a gaming PC but discovering the hardware is too busy generating cat pictures and writing emails for tech bros. At this point, selling a kidney might not even cover the down payment on an RTX 4090.

The eternal love story of our industry: she codes with fancy IDEs and libraries, he's still writing algorithms on napkins like it's a 1980s movie montage. Nothing says "I'm a real programmer" quite like handwriting a recursive function while your date wonders why you're scribbling math during coffee. The handwritten code even has that classic unnecessary increment counter that screams "I learned this from a textbook older than my career." Modern tools vs. academic purity - a romance doomed from the first semicolon.

The AUDACITY of this intern! 😱 What we're witnessing here is the ancient debugging ritual where senior devs ask juniors how they fixed something, expecting some elaborate algorithmic wizardry—only to discover the fix was literally just adding comments to the code. The senior's face of absolute HORROR is the programming equivalent of finding out your five-star meal was actually microwaved. And yet... secretly every developer knows commenting the code sometimes magically makes bugs disappear while you're trying to explain the problem. It's basically programming voodoo that somehow WORKS. The universe's greatest mystery!

When your colleague asks you to review their code and you have absolutely no idea what it does, but you don't want to look stupid in front of everyone. That moment when you're nodding along in the code review meeting, praying nobody asks you a follow-up question that will expose your complete lack of understanding. "Yep, those 500 lines of regex look great to me!" The third panel is just everyone celebrating that the meeting ended without you being exposed as a fraud. Sweet victory.

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