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Programmers are bad at naming things: GitHub — no actual hub, just trauma JavaScript — has nothing to do with Java or script apparently Python — no snake, just pain npm — Node Package Manager but nothing about it feels managed Homebrew — has never made a single drink Postman — brings requests, anxiety, and a 401 error MongoDB — no mongo, nobody knows what mongo is

Staff Engineer tells you: Just return 200 OK and put the error in the response body. Easier for frontend. You are a senior engineer. What's your answer ?

Interviewer: What happens if you remove all the hyphens from a UUID?

Web developers: can one extra slash in a URL change the page you get?

Which LLM do you trust the most for coding? A. Claude B. ChatGPT C. Gemini D. Qwen

AI Interviewer: If I upload a PDF to chatGPT and ask questions from it, is that RAG?

Why every software engineers plan B is farming?

Interviewer: What's your biggest strength? Me: Machine Learning. Interviewer: What's 6 + 9? Me: 0 Interviewer: Incorrect. It's 15. Me: It's 15 Interviewer: What's 4 + 20? Me: It's 15

Tech Lead says: DELETE should always return the deleted object. Whats your reply ?

Developers, which one do you actually use?

Linkedin says your profile photo must look like you Meanwhile in linkedin 👇🏻

Interviewer: IRCTC crashes every day during tatkal bookings at 10 AM. Amazon survives Big Billion Day traffic without crashing. What’s the difference in their system design?