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Nothing triggers a real senior dev quite like seeing some fresh-faced 21-year-old on Instagram claiming "Senior Developer" in their bio. Kid probably just finished their bootcamp last Tuesday and suddenly they're out here acting like they've survived production incidents at 3 AM, dealt with legacy code from 2003, or had to explain to management why "just make it work like Facebook" isn't a valid requirement.
Senior isn't just about knowing React hooks or writing clean code. It's about the battle scars—the time you accidentally dropped the production database, the merge conflicts that made you question your career choices, the technical debt you inherited from three developers ago who all quit. You earn that title through years of pain, not by watching YouTube tutorials and calling yourself a "10x engineer."
But hey, LinkedIn influencer culture has everyone speedrunning their careers these days. Next thing you know, teenagers will be listing "CTO" because they deployed a Next.js app to Vercel.
