When You're Not Really A Programming Language But Still Vibin' With The Big Boys

Five of these panels show the typical innovation S-curve where technology evolves from primitive (MS-DOS, Internet Explorer) to peak performance (Windows 95, Chrome). Then there's music... where we apparently peaked at Napster and it's been downhill ever since. The real innovation was clearly the ability to download entire discographies without paying a cent. Progress isn't always what corporate overlords want you to believe it is.

The eternal developer paradox captured in one image. Four years of coding and suddenly you're expected to be a guru? The confident cat on the left is what non-technical people imagine—a seasoned expert with "lots of knowledge." The traumatized cat on the right is the reality—staring into the void, questioning if you know anything at all. The more you learn, the more you realize how little you actually know. Four years in and you're still Googling how to center a div and wondering if anyone else feels like they're just making it up as they go. Spoiler alert: we all are.

Nothing ages you faster than remembering when scrollbars were chunky, reliable parts of the browser window that just sat there doing their job. Now we've got these fancy disappearing overlays that show up for 0.5 seconds before fading away like your hopes of maintaining backward compatibility. The real tragedy? Watching the frog age from "young dev with bright eyes" to "senior engineer who's seen too many UI frameworks come and go" in the time it takes for browsers to decide scrollbars should be ephemeral experiences rather than functional UI elements.

When your login form helpfully suggests the exact email you were trying to keep private... from the person standing right behind you . Nothing says "security" like broadcasting Joe Smith's email to everyone in visual range while simultaneously reminding bobzimor that he's using someone else's password. That yellow highlight might as well be a neon sign saying "IDENTITY THEFT IN PROGRESS!"

The Spider-Man pointing meme perfectly encapsulates modern development workflows. On one side, we have "blindly copying the most upvoted answer in SO" (Stack Overflow) - the backbone of any project with a deadline. On the other side, there's "vibe coding" - when you're just throwing functions at the wall and seeing what sticks. The truth? They're the same picture. Whether you're copying code with 2,457 upvotes or writing whatever feels right at 2 AM fueled by energy drinks, you're still just hoping it works without understanding why. The real superhero power is making it to production without breaking everything.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of modern startups! 😱 Some fancy-pants developer shows up to the venture capital party like "I've revolutionized technology!" only to reveal they've created yet ANOTHER ChatGPT wrapper that solves the most insignificant problem known to mankind. It's the tech equivalent of putting a bow on a potato and calling it innovation! The venture capital world is DROWNING in these "groundbreaking solutions" that are basically just AI with lipstick. The pirate's face says it all - that perfect mix of disappointment and "are you seriously expecting funding for THIS?" I can't even with these people!