Ya Gotta Do The Dance

Content What are the 7 deadly sins of programming? John Purcell, Creator of CaveOfProgramming.com Answered OCt 30 : Upvoted by Hasis A Munaimin, IOl participant 43, 44. 45, ACM. ICPC World Finalist 2016 and Jessica Su, CS PhD student at Stanford 1. Using spaces instead of tabs. You should always, always use tabs, not spaces. 2. Using tabs instead of spaces. You should always, always, use spaces. 3. Not using auto-formatting. Forget all that tabsspaces rubbish, what's wrong with you - auto-format your code and then people won't have to look at your weird ideas about brackets and spaces. 4. Using IDEs, which have features such as auto-formatting and nicely- coloured buttons. All code should be written in vi or Emacs, thus ensuring the purity of the programming experience. 5. Not using IDEs. No-one wants to pay for all the time it's going to take you to type things that you could have done at the click of a button, or scroll up and down using some ridiculous key combination invoked using LISP. 6. Failing to learn C and C. It's really important to learn the two absolute essential languages. You think Java is just as good? Fine, write me a real-time control system for racing cars in Java and I'll believe you. 7. Learning C or C when you could be using something modern like Java instead. Admit it - all your schedules involving C or C overrun by five years. And even then the software turns out to have critical flaws that Java would not even have allowed vou to create. 8. Overrunning the end of an array. 124.8k Views 3.448 Upvotes

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Content Me: Declares variable but doesn't use it. My IDE: How dare you!

So you decided to follow that classic advice about learning a new programming language by "speaking to natives," huh? Well, turns out when you're learning Python, the natives are... actual pythons. The image shows someone literally lying on the floor trying to communicate with a ball python snake, which is both terrifying and somehow exactly what every tutorial told you to do. The dedication is real though. While everyone else is grinding LeetCode and reading documentation, this absolute legend is out here having a heart-to-heart with a reptile, probably asking it why their import antigravity isn't working or why list comprehensions feel so unnatural at first. The snake's probably better at explaining decorators than most Stack Overflow answers anyway. Props for commitment to the bit, but maybe next time just stick to the official docs and a good IDE. Unless the snake knows how to fix your indentation errors, in which case, please introduce me.

Oh, the HORROR of being "the tech person" in your family! You spent years mastering algorithms, building scalable systems, and architecting beautiful code... only to become the unpaid IT helpdesk for everyone who's ever met you. The slide of doom perfectly captures your descent into madness: It starts innocently with "can you fix my laptop?" (sure, whatever), slides into "I have an app idea" (oh no), and crashes straight into "can you hack Facebook?" because obviously knowing how to code means you're a Hollywood hacker who can break into Fort Knox with three keystrokes. Pro tip: Next time someone asks if you can hack Facebook, just tell them you only work with blockchain AI in the cloud. That usually shuts them up real quick. 🎯

Remember when AI engineers actually knew what they were doing? CNNs, LSTMs, random forests—these folks were out here building models from scratch, understanding the math, tuning hyperparameters like absolute chads. Fast forward to today and we've got people who think "prompt engineering" is a legitimate skill, dumping entire databases into ChatGPT's context window, accidentally leaking API keys in their autocomplete, and genuinely believing that trusting an LLM with sensitive data is a sound architectural decision. The devolution from understanding neural network architectures to "ChatGPT will classify my sentence" is honestly impressive. We went from building intelligent systems to just... asking a chatbot to do our jobs. The industry speedran from "I understand backpropagation" to "please mr. GPT, do the thing" in record time. But hey, at least we're all equally unemployed now. Democracy wins!