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The perfect double entendre doesn't exi— oh wait, here it is! Playing on the dual meaning of "bugs" as both software errors and actual insects, this meme brilliantly captures why dark mode reigns supreme in developer circles. In nature, light attracts actual bugs. In coding, well... switching to light mode is basically sending an open invitation to every runtime error and undefined variable in your codebase to come party. The smug satisfaction on that developer's face says it all - he's not just protecting his retinas, he's practicing advanced bug prevention techniques. Nobel Prize in debugging when?

Ah, the four horsemen of developer excuses! That moment when your client hits you with the dreaded "it doesn't work" with zero context, and you're suddenly on a game show with no lifelines. The correct answer? All of the above, in rapid succession, followed by asking them to send a screenshot that will inevitably be a photo of their monitor taken with a potato. After 15 years of coding, I've used every single one of these excuses. My personal favorite is "works on my machine" – the programmer's equivalent of "not my problem" but with just enough technical ambiguity to sound legitimate.

When your AI-powered project becomes a Frankenstein's monster that even AI can't fix... That's when you know you've created something truly special. This dev built a 30-file Python monstrosity with zero Python knowledge, using Claude as their coding sidekick. Now Claude's having an existential crisis trying to understand the spaghetti code it helped create. The irony is delicious - AI was supposed to replace programmers, but it turns out you still need actual programming skills to tell the AI how to clean up its own mess. This is like asking a toddler to babysit itself and then wondering why the house is on fire.

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Content I've interviewed a lot of people over the last year (Java), and my favorite test is to throw a Stack Trace at them and ask them to figure out what the problem is. The answer is actually quite clear, however. Half of them don't know it's called a stack trace. Some don't know what they're looking at (BYE!). Several focus on the wrong section of proprietary code. Some ask to "open a debugger". however the answer is right there in plain english if you just read the method names. Many don't realize the line numbers are RIGHT THERE, and then start focusing on the lines ending with "Compiled Code". Then there are the ones who work their way up from the bottom, starting with the application container code, and lose their minds. Some who figure out what is happening don't have a solution to prevent it from happening. No, I'm not sharing the trace; suffice to say it's been reviewed by more than 5 of my peers and they all passed. Like Reply 1h Edited I mean, it isn't hard to eliminate people with a coding question. Do you find it impossible to teach people how to read text stack traces, or is this a skill without which they will be unable to do anything of use, or do you just not want to hire anyone? 1 am serious. 1 can come up with dozens of useful programming skills I can test a candidate on that most perfectly skilled programmers would fail. Start with eliminating people who can't code at all. Then find out what they can do that could be useful. If I have 5 people who can already take a printed out stack crash dump, I probably don't need another, and if I do, a qualified candidate can be taught that skill by someone who knows it in under a week. Then again, maybe you work for Stack Trace Inc, and your entire job is looking at stack traces. If so, by bad. Like Reply 22m