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Marco Dalla Stella

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Code alchemist, data juggler, chess player, poetry. Admin of functional.cafe. 🌉 bridged from ⁂ functional.cafe/@mdallastella, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Marco Dalla Stella @mdallastella.functional.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 27/07/2026
Years ago, developers could use the "It's compilng" excuse… Nowadays we can use "LLM is thinking"…
This is a simple black-and-white comic drawn in a sketch style, taken from XKCD.

At the top, a caption reads: “The number one programmer excuse for legitimately slacking off: ‘My code's compiling.’”

Below the caption is an office scene. On the left, a person stands in a doorway and calls out, “Hey! Get back to work!”

On the right, another person is sitting on a swivel office chair. Instead of working, the seated person appears to be playing around, holding objects that create little sparks. The chair is shown wobbling or spinning, emphasizing that the person is not being productive.

The seated person replies with a single word: “Compiling!”

Upon hearing that, the person in the doorway immediately answers, “Oh. Carry on.”
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