The coding love

When it's Friday afternoon and a coworker suggests "one last quick deploy before the weekend"

When I touch the senior dev's code and he shows up at my desk thirty seconds later

When I get back from lunch and the whole office is eerily quiet

When I realize the only documentation for this project is the guy who left six months ago

When I run git blame to find who's responsible and it's me, two years ago

When I rerun the pipeline for the sixth time, just hoping it'll change its mind

When I let the AI refactor a file and it also rewrites stuff that was working just fine

When QA reproduces in two clicks the bug I swore was impossible

When marketing wants to add a fifth tracking tool and wonders why the site is slow

When I promised a feature would be done in 2 days and I'm still stuck on setup three days in

When I'm about to leave and CI finally goes green after eight failed runs

When I realize a file called temp.js is running half the site in prod

When the intern suggests a solution and it's objectively better than mine

When I stumble on the admin credentials sitting in plain text in a code comment

When the sales guy says "it's just a small change" and it touches the entire architecture

When all my tests pass on the first try and I just know something has to be wrong

When I start a side project and spend the whole night picking the framework