Copy-Paste Driven Development

The four stages of programmer self-image vs reality: Non-techies think we're hardware wizards fixing computers with screwdrivers. Parents imagine us as rocket scientist geniuses inventing the next NASA breakthrough. Meanwhile, we picture ourselves as brilliant algorithm architects solving complex mathematical problems that would make Einstein sweat. The brutal truth? We're just professional Googlers typing "How to use dates in JavaScript" for the 47th time this week because nobody—and I mean nobody —remembers that godforsaken API without looking it up.

Ah yes, the classic "I watched a tutorial, therefore I am a programmer" phase. We've all been there. That magical moment when you follow along with some dude coding a simple "Hello World" and suddenly you're convinced you can build the next Facebook. The irony of the title "Integer Overflow Amirite" is perfect - they probably don't even know what an integer overflow is yet, but they're already speaking the lingo and ready to join the tribe. Give it a week before they discover their first StackOverflow error and the real programming journey begins. The confidence of a beginner is truly the most powerful force in computing.

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Remember when AWK was actually used for text processing instead of just being that weird command in Stack Overflow answers? The existential crisis is real. This poor utility is having a mid-career breakdown after realizing its entire existence has been reduced to "print columns" by junior devs who have no idea about its pattern scanning and processing language capabilities. Like finding out your PhD is only being used to open beer bottles. The robot's face at the end is every senior engineer watching new grads discover grep for the first time.

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Prison scene: two inmates chatting. The smaller one confesses, "I wrote a regex without Googling." The muscular inmate's reaction? Pure shock: "DUDE. WTF?!" Writing regex from memory is basically the developer equivalent of claiming you can disarm a nuclear bomb blindfolded. Even senior devs with 20 years of experience still copy-paste that email validation pattern. The confidence required to manually craft those cryptic `/^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/` monstrosities without Stack Overflow backup? Absolutely terrifying.