Atlas Of Stack Overflow

Content Artak Kalantarian 3rd Founder at peaceofmind.ai - UC Berkeley SkyDeck Pad-13... 5d Edited g At one of my first interviews I was asked to reverse a singly linked list. The conversation went this way: Interviewer: "How would you reverse a singly linked list" Me: "Would stick the items into a stack, and pop them out and link them again" Interviewer: "But the linked list can be infinite" Me: "Would stick the items into an infinite stack" Interviewer: "Where would you find the infinite stack?" Me: "Exactlv at the same place where vou found the infinite linked list" I can never resist a good joke. In this case it went well. 08 602 18 comments

The eternal struggle of modern coding: the AI vibe coder vs. the ADHD vibe coder. On the left, we have the AI-dependent programmer - a sad, corporate bootlicker waiting for ChatGPT to explain basic packages while producing non-functional code that somehow still gets them hired at FAANG companies. Meanwhile, the ADHD coder on the right is living their best chaotic life - dressed like they raided a highlighter factory, confidently hacking together solutions based on "voices in their head" and that one function they glimpsed three weeks ago. Their code might be a ticking time bomb, but at least it has personality . The real genius here? The ADHD coder's superpower of instantaneous StackOverflow garbage collection. Who needs AI when you've mastered the ancient art of copy-paste-and-pray?

The AUDACITY of IT support being EXPOSED like this! 💀 First, we have the smug satisfaction of watching IT professionals struggle with the EXACT SAME PROBLEM you're having - validating that you're not just some clueless user. Then BAM! The betrayal in the comments! Your precious IT hero confessing they just Googled the solution on Reddit! The DRAMA! The SCANDAL! It's like finding out your therapist is actually reading from a self-help book they bought at the airport. And yet... isn't this the circle of tech life? Users pretending they tried everything, IT pretending they know everything, and Reddit silently solving everyone's problems behind the scenes. The tech support ecosystem thriving on collective denial!

Spotify Wrapped, but for developers' existential crises. The four horsemen of development reality: fixing bugs that spawn more bugs, spending 23.6 hours automating a 5.4-hour task, denying your code is the problem (narrator: it was), and watching six hours of tutorials only to find the solution in some random blog comment from 2011. The metrics don't lie, but they do hurt.

Remember when we actually had to understand algorithms? Now it's just "fancy bear, what's the optimal way to balance this binary tree?" And Stack Overflow? That's just AI with extra steps and judgment. But coding without internet? That's like trying to remember your ex's phone number – theoretically possible but why would you put yourself through that pain? The real pros among us still have that O'Reilly book collection gathering dust somewhere, just in case the apocalypse hits and we need to remember how pointers work.

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