I Will Do What I Must

Content The Proud Parent The Linker REPENT TOMER - Half your manager, half your senior - Designed the codebase - Will always answer your question, but only after a 5 minute on the motivations of a now rebuilt module from years ago - "I remember when we had to do that process in the AWS console with just a trackpad, uphill both ways" - Tough during code review, but genuinely happy to see you ship new features to the system The Job Security Maximizer - Always sends you a link when you ask a question, sometimes without any other words - "Look at this" - Thinks you don't know standard documentation exists - Posts medium articles in the main channel, doesn't read them - Never reviews code - First stack overflow result The Big Chiller - "Ohh, that? Sorry I totally forgot all - Been around for years, knows the entire about the code I wrote a month ago" codebase - Tells you to ask someone else for the - Friends with the CTO simplest question - Shows you the exact line of code that - Has dozens of pages of private notes, causes your bug within 5 minutes READMEs all read "initial commit" - They last shipped a commit a couple - "Have you thought about adding an months ago, you think abstracter to this abstraction? With that - Always approves your PRs we can decouple the coupler from the universe" 10 i0

The secret productivity hack no one talks about! When you're stuck debugging Oracle code, the cycle begins: desperately asking coworkers who shrug, frantically searching Stack Overflow posts from the Paleolithic era, and finally giving up to "take a break." Suddenly, while mindlessly scrolling Twitter or pretending to fold laundry, your brain magically solves the problem that's been tormenting you for hours. The ultimate developer paradox - your best work happens when you're technically not working at all. The real MVP of remote work isn't your mechanical keyboard, it's strategic procrastination.

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The circle of technological bewilderment continues! Future programmers will stare slack-jawed at our primitive coding methods without AI assistance, while we're already scratching our heads wondering how the ancients managed without Stack Overflow to copy-paste from. It's the developer's version of "I walked uphill both ways to school" except each generation's hill gets replaced with fancier tools. Somewhere, a programmer from the 70s is laughing at us all while debugging with actual paper printouts.

Content My reaction when my mentor finds my entirely copied code on StackOverflow

Ah, the classic bait-and-switch. First we were all tied up with Stack Overflow, desperately patting it on the head for every error message we couldn't decipher. Then Elon swoops in with his Twitter/X rebrand, and suddenly our timelines are filled with developers dramatically announcing their migration to Bluesky, Mastodon, or whatever platform hasn't been "ruined" yet. Ten years in this industry and I've learned one universal truth: developers will spend more time complaining about where they're complaining than actually writing code. Meanwhile, that bug isn't going to fix itself while you're crafting the perfect farewell tweet.