The Great Software Illusion

Developer life Software development Copy paste Code reuse Software industry

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The Great Software Illusion

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Oh. My. GOD. The absolute TRUTH of this image is sending me into orbit! 🚀 The entire software industry—this massive, trillion-dollar behemoth—is literally being dragged forward by a tiny little train of Stack Overflow answers cobbled together by sleep-deprived heroes who decided to share their solutions with the world. Without those precious snippets of code that we frantically copy-paste at 2PM while our deadline looms at 3PM, the ENTIRE digital infrastructure would collapse into a heap of undefined behaviors and null pointer exceptions! The modern world hangs by a thread, and that thread is someone's 11-year-old answer with 4,362 upvotes explaining how to center a div. DEVASTATING accuracy!

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