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Junior dev: "I designed a database in 3 hours! Give me a medal!" Senior devs: *looking at the schema with User and userId in the same model, nullable fields everywhere, and enums that'll need constant updating* This is why database design takes weeks. The junior's Prisma schema is a ticking time bomb of future migration nightmares, circular dependencies, and queries that'll bring production to its knees when you hit more than 100 users. Six months later, they'll be writing a Medium article titled "How I Survived My First Database Redesign" while the senior devs silently add another gray hair to their collection.

When you ask a frontend dev to show their CSS and they hit you with a calligraphy lesson instead. This dude's code looks like it belongs in a museum, not a text editor. The irony of using fancy cursive font to write CSS that's supposed to style a website is just *chef's kiss*. It's like writing your grocery list in Shakespearean English. Sure, it technically works, but good luck debugging that masterpiece at 4:59 PM on a Friday when production is down.

Ah, the glorious isEven.js function with a chain of if-else statements that would make any senior dev weep into their coffee. Nothing says "I have a CS degree" like checking each number individually instead of using num % 2 === 0 . But honestly, that lakeside view is the real flex here. You're not coding like this because you don't have a six-figure remote job that lets you write terrible algorithms while overlooking a serene winter landscape. The code may be horrific, but that work-life balance is god-tier.

When your inner monologue goes from "I don't know what I'm doing" to "Wait, what if I actually don't know what I'm doing?" That's not imposter syndrome anymore—that's your brain executing a recursive self-doubt function with no base case! It's like when you've been faking your way through a codebase for so long that you start wondering if Stack Overflow should charge you rent. The shower thoughts hit different when you realize you've been copying and pasting for three years and still can't explain how that one function works.

Browsing the web in 2024 is basically playing a game of "Popup Whack-a-Mole" before you can actually read anything. Two years later and nothing's changed - we've just gotten faster at the cookie-decline-video-stop-popup-close speedrun. The real achievement isn't finding the information you need, it's remembering what you were looking for after battling through five layers of digital harassment. Modern web developers aren't creating websites anymore; they're designing obstacle courses with a tiny content reward at the end.

The eternal product development paradox in four panels! When a product manager demands a flashy new feature, developers ask the reasonable question: "Do our users actually need this?" Then comes the power move—the PM dramatically declares "Look at me. I am the user" with the intensity of someone who's never opened the app outside a demo. This is basically every feature prioritization meeting where actual user research got replaced by executive gut feelings. The "I am the user" declaration is the software development equivalent of "because I said so" from your childhood.