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The "Senior Junior" Developer Lifecycle

Phase Activity Internal Monologue
The Spark Writing 3 lines of code. "I am a literal god of logic."
The Reality Running the code. "147 errors? In 3 lines? How?"
The Investigation Googling the error. "Why is the top result a purple link from 2012?"
The "Fix" Copy-pasting from StackOverflow. "I don't know what refactor_entropy() does, but the errors are gone."
The Conclusion Closing the laptop. "Works on my machine. Shipping it."

The Flowchart

  1. Start Task
  2. Spend 2 hours choosing a VS Code theme.
  3. Write a function called do_thing().
  4. Realize do_thing() broke the entire production database.
  5. Fix it by deleting the function and pretending it never happened.
  6. Update Jira: "Completed architectural optimization."

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