Let’s be honest—being a dev isn’t about being smart.
It’s about Googling the same question 17 times in 10 minutes, crying over a semicolon, and telling your rubber duck your deepest traumas.
Here are 5 real dev moments that had me questioning my career, my sanity, and the existence of hope itself:
1. “It works on my machine.” Yeah bro, your machine is lying.
QA: “It’s broken.”
Me: “Wha–? It’s working perfectly on my side.”
Reality: My machine is a gaslighting manipulator.
If you’ve ever said “it works on my machine,” congrats—you’ve officially entered the Hall of Denial. Your code isn’t functional. It’s vibing.
2. Accidentally did a git push --force to main. Rest in peace, dignity.
You meant to push a small fix.
Instead, you just nuked the whole repo like it was your ex’s Instagram feed.
The team’s work? Gone.
Your career? Flashing before your eyes.
You? Typing “how to become a forest ranger” on Google.
3. Spent 6 hours debugging. It was a missing comma. I hate it here.
You restructured the entire app. You doubted your ancestors. You prayed to four programming gods.
Then you realize: it was ONE. SINGLE. COMMA.
At this point, I think my keyboard is trolling me.
4. Rubber Duck Debugging turned into an identity crisis.
Me: “Okay, Mr. Duck… here’s the problem.”
Also Me: “Wait. What if I’m the bug?”
The duck didn’t answer. But now I know my dad never loved me.
Thanks, duck.
5. Fixed one bug, broke the entire app like a true menace.
You were just tryna patch a lil’ error.
Now the homepage is blank, the login button starts a fire, and the console’s screaming like it just stubbed its toe.
Why is dev life basically Jenga with fire?
Bonus Round:
- Typed
rm -rf /thinking I was in a test environment. I wasn’t. - Told myself “quick deploy on Friday.” HAH. Now I live in production.
- Forgot to save and lost 3 hours of work. Ate my laptop.
- Wrote code at 3am. Saw it sober. Deleted it like a drunk text.
🧠 Moral of the story:
Dev life isn’t about perfection.
It’s about surviving the stupidest, most avoidable mistakes with ✨delusion✨ and coffee.
If you’ve experienced any of these:
Comment your war stories below.
Let’s trauma bond like the emotionally unstable code monkeys we are 🫂
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