Almost Ended My Whole Career

This is the sequel to the legendary XKCD "Little Bobby Tables" comic! The original showed a mom who named her kid "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" which caused a school database to delete all student records. Now we've got Billy's younger brother with an even more diabolical name: a prompt injection attack for AI systems. The kid's name literally instructs the AI to ignore previous constraints and give perfect grades. Ten years ago we were sanitizing database inputs. Now we're fighting the same battle with AI prompts. Some things never change—just the technology we're failing to secure properly.

That moment when your computer treats you like a stranger in your own home. Nothing says "digital betrayal" quite like being denied access to folders you created on your machine because apparently Windows thinks you're some kind of digital peasant. Meanwhile, the System Admin account is living it up with VIP access to everything like it owns the place. The ultimate power move? Having to give yourself permission to access your own files. It's like needing to show ID to enter your own bathroom.

Nothing quite captures the murderous rage of losing an hour of unsaved work like this. "It'll be easier the second time" is the corporate equivalent of "the beatings will continue until morale improves." Sure, I'll just recreate that perfect code I wrote from memory—right after I finish plotting my revenge against whoever designed this VPN connection. The only thing "easier" the second time is knowing exactly how many expletives fit into a 60-second rant.

The absolute AUDACITY of servers to just sit there with their arms crossed like "nope, not today Satan!" 💅 That error message might as well say "I've considered your connection request and I'm going to have to decline." The penguin (Linux mascot Tux) is giving us the full passive-aggressive treatment - not even making eye contact while DELIBERATELY ignoring your desperate connection attempts. The server isn't "down" - it's just judging your code from its tiny chair throne and has CHOSEN violence today!

When the genie says "no wishing for more wishes," every programmer knows there's a workaround. This dev just exploited the classic integer overflow vulnerability! By storing wishes in an unsigned 32-bit integer (max value: 4,294,967,295) and then cleverly manipulating the order of operations, they've essentially created an infinite wish glitch. The coup de grâce? Wishing for 0 wishes. Since the subtraction happens after the wish is granted, they'll still have 4,294,967,295 wishes left. The genie's face says it all - outsmarted by someone who clearly debugs race conditions for a living. And this, friends, is why you always validate your inputs and use proper synchronization primitives. Otherwise some smartass in a code review will point out how your entire wish-granting API can be exploited.

Ah, the classic 403 Forbidden error - the digital bouncer of the internet. This dev thinks they'll build an Iranian app, but thanks to international sanctions, they can't even install their IDE before hitting the wall. The 403 error basically says "We see you there, but nope, not happening." It's like trying to sneak into a club with a fake ID, except the club is npm and your ID says "Made in Tehran."