It Works On My Machine

First frame: Raging at a linter suggestion to replace new String().getClass() with String.class because "nobody writes code like this." Second frame: Complete attitude reversal after hearing why the rule exists, suddenly claiming to have "seen such things 11 times, as a matter of fact." The duality of developers: loudly rejecting best practices until the moment they realize they've been writing garbage code their entire career. Then suddenly they were the code quality champion all along! The mental gymnastics deserve an Olympic gold medal.

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The eternal cat and mouse game, except it's you vs your code. You're armed with debuggers, print statements, and stackoverflow answers, ready to smash that bug into oblivion. Meanwhile, the bug is just chilling on your frying pan, completely aware that it'll somehow escape your clutches and reappear in production next week. Nothing quite captures the frustration of thinking you're about to obliterate a bug only to have it slip away at the last second. That smug little Jerry-bug knows exactly what it's doing while you, Tom the developer, are about to hit nothing but air.

The classic "it's just a quick fix" that morphs into an all-night coding nightmare. There's something profoundly spiritual about staring into the void of your IDE at 4:30 AM, running on nothing but desperation and your fifth energy drink, while your sanity hangs by a single semicolon. The frog represents that special mix of delirium and determination that only comes when you've promised the team "I'll have this done by morning" and are now questioning every life decision that led to this moment. The empty office just amplifies the existential dread – it's just you, the bug, and the growing realization that "quick fix" is the biggest lie in software development since "it works on my machine."

Scientists: "Let's understand why our experiment worked so we can replicate it and advance human knowledge." Programmers: "Dear god, nobody commit anything to the repo. I fixed the bug by removing a semicolon and adding it back. I have no idea why it works now, but if anyone breathes on this code it'll probably explode." The true mark of an experienced developer isn't writing perfect code—it's the haunted look they get when something unexpectedly works on the first try.