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OH. MY. GOD. The absolute DEVOLUTION of programmers is too real! 😭 On the left, we have the CHAD programmer of yesteryear - building an ENTIRE OPERATING SYSTEM FROM SCRATCH, talking directly to God, and casually mentioning CIA conspiracies while coding in 640x480 resolution like some kind of digital BARBARIAN! And what do we have now? A pathetic little doge in a coffee sweater, TRAPPED in Vim, desperately clinging to Stack Overflow and Spotify for emotional support! Can't even exit a text editor without begging for help! The audacity! The TRAGEDY! For the uninitiated: TempleOS was an operating system coded entirely by one man (Terry Davis) who claimed divine inspiration. Meanwhile, Vim is that text editor where generations of programmers have been held hostage because nobody remembers how to exit it (it's :q! by the way, YOU'RE WELCOME).

Left-handed developers watching right-handed developers use keyboard shortcuts be like... 😑 When you're coding with your sinister hand and realize all the ergonomic keyboard shortcuts (Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V) require finger gymnastics that would make a contortionist quit. Meanwhile, right-handed folks are copying and pasting with the efficiency of a factory robot. No wonder 10% of programmers have contemplated learning Vim just to rebind those keys to something that doesn't require dislocating three fingers simultaneously!

The perfect metaphor for the Vim user in every dev team. While everyone else is silently mourning the death of simplicity in text editors, that one developer just has to announce their undying loyalty to Vim. It's like a funeral for normal editing workflows, and the Vim enthusiast still can't resist the urge to tell everyone about their 47 custom keybindings and how they can delete a word with "diw" faster than you can reach for your mouse. The coffin might as well contain the remains of productive team discussions that don't devolve into editor wars.

Remember when programmers were basically digital demigods who could craft mission-critical code for lunar missions without breaking a sweat? Yeah, me neither. Today's reality is more like staring blankly at a screen, asking ChatGPT to fix our semicolon errors while we're trapped in Vim because apparently that's still a thing in 2024. And let's not forget the classic "fix one bug, spawn three more" - nature's way of keeping us humble. The golden age of programming never existed. We just replaced "I don't know how to do this" with "I don't know how to ask AI to do this for me."

Evolution of programmers: from creating their own compilers and bragging about government surveillance to being completely dependent on Stack Overflow and trapped in Vim. Left: The chad programmer of yesteryear, writing low-resolution 3D engines and custom compilers while casually mentioning CIA surveillance like it's a badge of honor. Right: Today's programmer, desperately googling "how to exit vim" for the 47th time while clutching a coffee mug and whimpering for help. The Spotify icon in the corner is just *chef's kiss* - because nothing says "productive coding session" like spending 30 minutes creating the perfect lo-fi playlist. Fun fact: The ":q!" command to exit Vim has been responsible for more developer tears than any code review in history.

The eternal battle between Vim, VS Code, and Notepad++ users in one perfect meme! The distraught developer is having a meltdown over forgetting a semicolon - that tiny syntax character that brings entire codebases crashing down. Meanwhile, the hooded figures (modern IDE users) are utterly confused why this is even an issue. In 2024, with intelligent code completion, linting, and auto-formatting, semicolon errors are practically extinct for devs using modern tools. But for the purists coding in vanilla environments? That missing semicolon might as well be a missing kidney. The true comedy gold is that both sides think the other is completely insane. Tool elitism at its finest!