The Two Faces Of Programming Help

Content You're working on a legacy program, and bump into a problem You find the exact problem, and a working solution on Stack Overflow It's the solution YOU posted, last time you worked on this app; 4 years ago.

Finally, a social network where I can showcase my true skills: writing HTML tags that break in production but somehow work in dev. "CodedIn" - where your profile strength is measured by how many Stack Overflow questions you've copied without understanding. Connect with other developers who also pretend to know what they're doing.

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Ah yes, the classic "I watched a tutorial, therefore I am a programmer" phase. We've all been there. That magical moment when you follow along with some dude coding a simple "Hello World" and suddenly you're convinced you can build the next Facebook. The irony of the title "Integer Overflow Amirite" is perfect - they probably don't even know what an integer overflow is yet, but they're already speaking the lingo and ready to join the tribe. Give it a week before they discover their first StackOverflow error and the real programming journey begins. The confidence of a beginner is truly the most powerful force in computing.

Remember when programmers were basically coding demigods who could bend computers to their will? Now we're just sad creatures Googling "how to center div" for the 500th time and begging AI to fix our mistakes. The golden age programmer wrote code without StackOverflow, crafted entire games in Assembly (you know, that language that makes you want to cry), manually fixed memory leaks with pointers, and literally hand-coded the software that put humans on the freaking moon. Meanwhile, modern programmers are trapped in Vim wondering why :q doesn't work, fixing one bug only to create three more like some kind of hydra nightmare, and asking ChatGPT to solve problems we should probably understand ourselves. The decline is real, folks. But hey, at least we have dark mode now.

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