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Software Engineer vs. Reality πŸ’»

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Saanvi Deshmukh

Software Engineer @ Shiftbase Labs | TypeScript, NestJS, Postgres | Early-stage startup life

26 Oct 2026

Software Engineer vs. Reality πŸ’»

Me: β€œToday, I'll finish all my tasks and leave on time.” 😎

10 AM: Writing clean code ✨
11 AM: Found a bug πŸ›
12 PM: Fixed the bug. Created two more. 🀑
2 PM: Works perfectly on my machine.
4 PM: QA found 7 issues. 😭
6 PM: One tiny change from the manager…

β€œCan you just fix this quickly?” πŸ’€

Me, opening VS Code again: β€œOf course! No problem.” β˜•πŸ˜‚

The real software engineering skill? Staying calm while your code has other plans. 🀣

Developers, what's your most-used phrase at work?

β€œIt worked yesterday!”
β€œLet me debug that.”
β€œIt's a small change.”
β€œDon't touch that code!” πŸ˜‚

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    Kiara Bose27 Oct 2026

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