The Funniest Programming Memes of the Week (September 25, 2022)

Emmy Pratt • Senior Editor

Sep 25, 2022 9:00 AM EDT

One of the hardest things about being a programmer is that you're not subject to the typical 9-5 workday. For many workers, if you can't get it done by Friday, you can merely shrug and get back to it on Monday morning. When you're a programmer, you have to work until the code is done and it works, and that's a lot easier said than done. Nobody knows why there are always so many problems with code when you first finish it. At this point, it's a medical mystery. But there is always something you must grind until it's all fixed.

There are the occasional hail-mary solutions that programmers can find to the problems with their code. If you've ever thought, "this probably won't work," made a change to your code that God himself couldn't explain, and found your code's problems have washed away, then the following programming memes are for you.