So while everyone's having existential crises about AI replacing programmers, here's a friendly reminder that intelligence follows a bell curve. The folks screaming "AI IS SMART" and "AI WILL REPLACE PROGRAMMERS" are sitting at opposite ends of the IQ distribution, both equally convinced they've figured it all out. Meanwhile, the vast majority in the middle are just like "yeah, AI is a tool that's pretty dumb at a lot of things but useful for some stuff." It's the Dunning-Kruger effect in real time: people with minimal understanding think AI is either a god or completely useless, while those who actually work with it daily know it's more like a very confident intern who occasionally hallucinates entire libraries that don't exist. Sure, it can autocomplete your code, but it'll also confidently suggest you divide by zero if you phrase the question wrong. The real galaxy brain take? AI is a productivity multiplier, not a replacement. But nuance doesn't make for good LinkedIn posts, does it?

The AI gold rush has created three distinct species of developers, and none of them are actually writing code anymore. First up: the Prompt Junkie , desperately tweaking their ChatGPT prompts like a gambler convinced the next spin will hit jackpot. "Just one more iteration bro" - famous last words before spending 4 hours prompt engineering what would've taken 20 minutes to code yourself. Then there's Programming in English guy, who's essentially become an AI therapist. You're not coding anymore, you're having philosophical conversations with Claude about edge cases while it hallucinates increasingly elaborate solutions. The irony? You need to understand programming deeply to even know what to ask for. It's like needing a law degree to hire a lawyer. Finally, the Grifter - selling $3000 courses on "AI prompting" to people who think they can skip learning fundamentals. Spoiler alert: if your entire business model is "type sentences into ChatGPT," you're not building a moat, you're building a sandcastle at high tide. The punchline? All three are getting "Paywalled" - because OpenAI's API costs add up faster than AWS bills on a misconfigured Lambda function. Welcome to the future where you pay per token to avoid learning syntax.

When AI confidently solves a basic algebra problem by literally evaluating the equation as code. The sister was 3 when you were 6, so the age difference is 3 years. Fast forward 64 years and... she's still 3 years younger. But no, ChatGPT decided to execute 6/2 and 3+70 as literal expressions and proudly announced "73 years old" like it just solved the Riemann hypothesis. This is what happens when you train an LLM on Stack Overflow answers without the comment section roasting bad logic. The AI saw those angle brackets and thought "time to compile!" instead of "time to think." Our jobs might be safe after all, fam. At least until AI learns that relationships between numbers don't change just because you put them in a code block.