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We started as gods. Writing a C compiler in Brainfuck? Easy. Building Minecraft inside Minecraft with redstone? Child's play. Ray tracing in Excel? Just another Tuesday. Fast forward a few years and we're sitting here staring at unclosed brackets like they're ancient hieroglyphics. Forgot what syntax even looks like. The IDE is screaming at us in red squiggles and we're just... vibecoding. That's not even a real word but it perfectly describes typing random characters hoping something compiles. And don't get me started on the agentic loop—that special hell where you're debugging the debugger while your code debugs itself into an infinite recursion of despair. The descent from ambitious architect to syntax-forgetting gremlin is real. We didn't lose our skills. We just redistributed them into Stack Overflow bookmarks and muscle memory for Ctrl+Z.

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Oh, you're "self-taught"? *raises eyebrow skeptically* The internet trinity of knowledge silently judges your claim. Let's be honest—your "independent learning journey" was actually: 1. Copying Stack Overflow answers from Quora 2. Watching 47 YouTube tutorials at 2x speed 3. Frantically Googling error messages at 3AM Nobody becomes a developer in a vacuum. Your real teachers were these three digital uncles giving you that knowing look. The only truly original code you wrote was probably "Hello World"—and even then, you probably checked the syntax twice.

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