The Four Pillars Of Programming Survival

Content Ayushi Rawat ( ayushi7rawat Have you ever wondered why programmers have so many strong communities like Stackoverflow, devRant, Reddit, etc. and no other profession has such communities? Because we haven't built one for them! 5:50 AM 19 May 21 Twitter Web App 247 Retweets 27 Quote Tweets 2,163 Likes 17 8 ProgrammerHumor.to

Content Professors: "Copy-pasting from some website is plagiarism and will get you in serious trouble. Programmers: CodeDoesMeme

The eternal struggle of junior devs everywhere! That moment when you're stuck on a problem but somehow asking your senior dev feels less intimidating than typing it into Google and discovering it's a super basic question with 500 duplicate StackOverflow posts all marked as "closed for being too obvious." The fear isn't about finding the answer—it's about discovering you're the 10,000th person to ask why your code isn't working when you forgot a semicolon!

The revolutionary concept of actually reading documentation before asking for help. What sorcery is this? The distinguished frog gentleman represents that rare developer who took five minutes to check the docs instead of immediately posting "halp pls" on Stack Overflow with zero context. For those uninitiated, RTFM stands for "Read The F***ing Manual" - the ancient incantation senior devs whisper when juniors ask questions answered in paragraph one of the documentation.

The five stages of debugging grief: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and finally... reading the documentation. Nothing quite captures that moment of existential crisis when you realize you've spent three hours trying to fix something that could've been solved in five minutes if you'd just checked the manual first. The face says it all – that painful realization that you're not as clever as you thought, and the documentation writers were right all along. What's next, actually commenting your code?

Four years of programming and suddenly you're an "expert." The cat's face says it all – that mix of panic and impostor syndrome when someone mistakes your Stack Overflow copy-paste skills for actual knowledge. Truth is, after four years you've just figured out how much you don't know. The real experts are too busy fixing production outages caused by junior devs who thought they knew everything after their bootcamp.