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The expectation vs. reality gap in programming is brutal! Non-programmers imagine us as mysterious hackers typing at lightning speed, fingers dancing across keyboards like we're hacking the Pentagon. Meanwhile, the actual programming experience is just staring blankly at the screen for hours, questioning every life decision that led to this bug. That intense "calculating the meaning of existence" face isn't deep thinking—it's us wondering if we should've become baristas instead after spending 4 hours debugging a missing semicolon.

Content Kaleb KrazyKabe Visiting my girlfriend at work (she's a server) and she has a table of 20 guys

Content the senior watching me paste entire files of proprietary code into chatgpt (i forgot i was screen-sharing)

Content MATHEMATICIANS INVENT SOME NEW ALGORITHM? PROGRAMMERS: "OUR ALGORITHM?

The eternal duality of coding: questioning reality in both failure and success. First panel: code fails, you're baffled because it should work. Second panel: code suddenly works, you're equally baffled because you changed absolutely nothing. The universe runs on spite and cosmic randomness, not logic. That feeling when your computer gaslights you harder than your ex.

Content Junior engineers looking at the only senior software engineer in the team who is nice and helps them without any attitude