The Cunningham's Law Exploit

Education: "Plagiarism is unacceptable!" Programmers: "I found this on Stack Overflow" = "I have achieved innovation." The sacred ritual of copying code and pretending you didn't is basically the unofficial programmer handshake. Your professor would fail you for copying an essay, but your tech lead will silently judge you for not stealing that sorting algorithm. Why reinvent the wheel when someone else's wheel has 457 upvotes and works in production?

Content Pranay Pathole PPathole Programming is like a "choose your own adventure game" except every path leads you to a StackOverflow question from 2013 describing the same bug, with no answer.

Content Hi, I have problems catching mice, any advice please? Recommend upgrading to relying on humans. StackOverflow Catching mice is no longer considered a best practice. Covered by "How to stalk birds." Marked as duplicate

The modern software development lifecycle: pour some StackOverflow solutions and GitHub snippets into your old project, call it a new web app, and hope nobody notices the coffee stains. Who needs original code when you can just recycle the same 5 functions you've been using since 2015? The "pour and pray" method is basically 90% of web development at this point. Bonus points if you rename a few variables to make it look like you actually wrote something new.

Content You steal code snippets from stackoverflow I steal complete repos from github rishna memes We are not the same

Intelligence and programming knowledge are two entirely different beasts. Nothing quite says "senior developer" like Googling basic Git commands for the 500th time while your partner questions their life choices. The rubber duck is probably the smartest entity in this relationship. Fun fact: The average developer spends approximately 30% of their career pretending they understand what a pipe does. The other 70% is spent explaining to non-technical people that no, they can't hack Facebook.