just met a cute girl at the wedding i’m at like unreal. face card so crazy my frontal lobe clocked out. i’m talking generational. if symmetry was a startup she just closed series b. we’re vibing. she’s laughing. eye contact locked. i’m farming aura like it’s a full-time job. then coding comes up. she goes “yeah i code” my soul did a hard restart i’m like oh word “what do you build?” she says “mostly vibe-coding rn” and that’s where a normal man would say “that’s fire” and get her number but unfortunately i was built in a lab i go: “ok define vibe-coding” “claude code or codex” “cursor agent mode or raw dogging prompts” “you got git or just vibes” “tests?” “types?” “deploy?” “rollback?” “you read diffs or click accept like a casino addict” she starts laughing like i’m joking i was entering forensic mode. she says “i just use chatgpt and claude and keep asking until it kinda works” i say “works where” she says “like… on my laptop” i say “so localhost cosplay” bro. and i swear to God the violinist in the corner sounded like a system alarm the vibe died instantly DIED flatline. kernel panic. social segfault. full emotional 500 in prod. i try one last save. i go “ok but do you at least push to github” she says “sometimes, i mostly keep stuff on desktop folders” DESKTOP FOLDERS i started dissociating. i could see my ancestors. i could hear linus torvalds screaming in the distance. her friend walks over like “omg are y’all talking tech” and i accidentally say “she said she’s a developer but her stack is claude code, codex, and divine intervention” she goes “wait no i made a website” i said “a figma screenshot with a typeform link is not a website, it is a cry for help” SILENCE. like biblical silence. they walked away. she did not look back. my friend comes over like “bro she was INTO you what happened” i said “she called herself a coder and then described generating a landing page and praying over it” he said “so?” SO??? i’m supposed to build a future with someone whose incident response plan is ‘refresh and re-prompt’??? she had a heavenly face card but an apocalyptic workflow zero tests zero repos zero shame infinite vibes could’ve had her number but she now knows i respect source control and honestly that’s worth more

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