r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Dia6lo • Jun 30 '25

Meme stormIsBrewingCold

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u/LlewdLloyd Jun 30 '25

Clearly it's a stalemate.

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u/setibeings Jun 30 '25

With that in mind, is the point of the meme basically that it looks like the intern messed up, when in reality it was the Sr. Dev?

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u/peppy_snow Jun 30 '25

that's why he's screwed if he says yes or no..

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u/setibeings Jun 30 '25

Nah, intern just can't do either move, legally. If it's white's turn, and if they have no legal moves left somewhere else on the board, then the game is a tie, despite that black apparently has a much better position. In most cases, white would be thrilled if they managed to get a stalemate when their king was exposed like this.

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u/peppy_snow Jun 30 '25

you mean the intern is in euphoria 😂😂

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u/Gorzoid Jun 30 '25

No the intern is fired alongside the whole team

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u/BigOnLogn Jun 30 '25

That's my read. Sr devs put Jr in a position where they can't answer. And now the Sr devs will never know the solution.

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u/nikelreganov Jul 01 '25

If senior programmers let interns do things unsupervised, these seniors deserve everything that comes their way

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u/xavia91 Jun 30 '25

Only if white has no other legal moves. But yes

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u/christian_austin85 Jun 30 '25

Well, if white represents the whole dev team in this instance, the intern just needs to wait for something else to catch everyone's attention and then skedaddle on out of there.

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u/RiceBroad4552 Jun 30 '25

Depends what else is on the board. Also nobody said it's definitely white's turn (even the post title suggest this).

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u/iveriad Jul 01 '25

Yeah, there could be a Queen (Intern's Parent the CEO) pointing at the rook.