The Cunningham's Law Exploit

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Ah, the evolution of our noble profession! Remember when developers were depicted as muscular gods who could write flawless code without Stack Overflow, build entire games in Assembly, send rockets to the moon, and fix memory leaks by manually adjusting pointers? Fast forward to today's reality: frantically Googling basic CSS centering (still an unsolved mystery of computer science), begging ChatGPT to fix our syntax errors, getting trapped in Vim like it's some kind of developer hazing ritual, and the classic "fix one bug, spawn three more" hydra effect. The greatest irony? Those "superhuman" developers from the past would probably spend three hours debugging their Assembly code only to realize they forgot a semicolon. We've just outsourced our impostor syndrome to AI assistants.

The eternal dance between developers and regex—a cryptic language that might as well be ancient runes. When ChatGPT spits out a working regex that looks like someone headbutted a keyboard, what do we do? Copy-paste that mystical incantation and back away slowly. It's the modern equivalent of summoning a demon—you don't need to understand the Latin, you just need the spell to work. And when it does? Pure dopamine. That smug satisfaction of solving a problem without actually understanding the solution is programming at its finest. Future you will hate present you when that regex breaks in six months. But that's a problem for future you, who is, quite frankly, a bit of a buzzkill anyway.

First day with Python: "GET THIS THING AWAY FROM ME!" *frantically googles how to exit vim* Second day: *reluctantly takes a bite* "Hmm, these indentation rules aren't that bad..." Two weeks later: *pupils dilated, surrounded by 47 open Stack Overflow tabs* "Have you heard about our lord and savior list comprehensions? I've rewritten my entire codebase as one-liners!" The transition from hatred to complete obsession happens faster than you can say "import antigravity".

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Content Why should I hire a software engineer if I can just copy and paste code from Stack Overflow? Jessica Su, CS PhD student at 2 Stanford Answered Dec 28 Upvoted by Rupak Hattikudur, Software Engineer LT Infotech and Terry Lambert, Senior Software Engineer: Novell, Artisoft, IBM, Array Netw. It's still worth the money. The breakdown is Copying code from StackOverflow: 1 Knowing which code to copy from StackOverflow: 100000year