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Me Fr

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That moment when you're so desperate for a job that you show up to an interview knowing absolutely zilch about the company. Zero research. Didn't even Google them. Just vibing with pure confidence and a prayer. The chicken walking into KFC is peak irony—completely oblivious to the fact that this might not end well. But hey, rent is due and those LeetCode mediums aren't going to pay the bills. Sometimes you just gotta wing it (pun absolutely intended) and hope your "tell me about yourself" monologue carries you through.

My Setup

Programming Hardware

1 hour ago 26.6K views 0 shares

Ergonomics? Never heard of her. While the rest of the world is out here investing in standing desks and lumbar support like responsible adults, this absolute legend has ascended to a higher plane of existence by literally lying on the floor and holding their laptop above their face like they're bench-pressing productivity. The posture guide shows you how to sit like a civilized human being with proper spine alignment, but why would you do that when you can transform into a horizontal coding goblin and risk dropping your laptop directly onto your face? Peak comfort, zero back pain, maximum danger. It's the developer equivalent of eating cereal while lying in bed—technically functional, objectively chaotic, and somehow the most comfortable position you've ever been in until your arms give out.

Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

AI Git Programming Debugging

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Oh No! Linus Doesn't Know AI Is Useless!

So Linus Torvalds just casually merged a branch called 'antigravity' where he used Google's AI to fix his visualization tool, and then—PLOT TWIST—had to manually undo everything the AI suggested because it was absolutely terrible. The man literally wrote "Is this much better than I could do by hand? Sure is." with the energy of someone who just spent three hours fixing what AI broke in three seconds. The irony is CHEF'S KISS: the creator of Linux and Git, arguably one of the most brilliant minds in open source, got bamboozled by an AI tool that was "generated with help from google, but of the normal kind" (translation: the AI was confidently wrong as usual). He ended up implementing a custom RectangleSelector because apparently AI thinks "builtin rectangle select" is a good solution when it absolutely is NOT. The title sarcastically suggests Linus doesn't know AI is useless, but honey, he CLEARLY knows. He just documented it for posterity in the most passive-aggressive commit message ever. Nothing says "AI is revolutionary" quite like manually rewriting everything it touched.

Developer Life😂😂

Programming Debugging

4 hours ago 58.3K views 0 shares

The emotional rollercoaster every developer rides daily, printed on a t-shirt for maximum relatability. You're banging your head against the keyboard at 2 AM, questioning every life choice that led you to this career. Then suddenly your code compiles, tests pass, and you're ready to tattoo "10x engineer" on your forehead. Five minutes later, production is on fire and we're back to existential crisis mode. It's the bipolar relationship we all have with our craft—simultaneously the most frustrating and rewarding thing we do. The shirt captures that exact moment when your bugfix actually works and you remember why you got into this mess in the first place. Until the next merge conflict, anyway.

The Prompt

Windows AI Microsoft

5 hours ago 70.4K views 1 shares

Microsoft's vision of the future: where asking the AI to open Calculator results in it removing the Calculator app entirely, giving you "probabilistic mathematical estimates" instead, and then offering to create a PowerPoint about the history of addition. Because why would you want deterministic results from a calculator when you could get an answer that's "likely between 3 and 5, with high confidence it's approximately 4"? The user just wants to do basic arithmetic, but Windows 12's AI-first approach has decided that legacy apps like Calculator need to go. The AI even admits "mathematical reasoning isn't my core strength" while trying to handle 2+2. That's like hiring a chef who can't boil water but promises to write you a thesis on the thermodynamics of pasta cooking. The escalation from "streamlined OS with AI integration" to "we deleted your apps and replaced them with a chatbot that hallucinates math" perfectly captures every developer's nightmare about over-engineered solutions. Sometimes you just need a calculator, not a probabilistic language model with an inferiority complex about arithmetic.

What's Next For Us?

AI Hardware Gamedev Cloud

5 hours ago 75.3K views 0 shares

Remember when you thought COVID lockdowns were bad for hardware prices? Sweet summer child. First the pandemic turned GPU shopping into a battle royale where scalpers ruled supreme and mining rigs ate everything in sight. RAM prices went bonkers, and suddenly your "budget build" cost more than a used car. Then just when supply chains started recovering and you could finally afford that upgrade, the AI boom showed up like a final boss with unlimited HP. Now every tech giant is hoarding GPUs like they're infinity stones, and Nvidia can't print H100s fast enough. Your dream of a reasonably priced RTX 4090? Cute. Those are going to data centers now, buddy. The real tragedy? We survived the crypto mining apocalypse, clawed through the pandemic shortage, only to get absolutely demolished by ChatGPT's older siblings demanding entire warehouses of compute. At this rate, you'll need a mortgage to build a gaming PC by 2025.

The Big Short 2026

AI

6 hours ago 80.9K views 0 shares

So Michael Burry thinks trade jobs are "AI-proof" and uses Claude to do electrical work around his house. Then he drops the absolute bomb: "I am not so sure." The guy who predicted the 2008 housing crisis is now betting against the "AI won't replace blue-collar jobs" narrative. If an AI chatbot can guide someone through electrical work—a field requiring years of apprenticeship, code knowledge, and the ability to not die from 240V—what's stopping it from replacing actual electricians? The irony is chef's kiss: while using AI to do trade work, he realizes trade work might not be safe from AI. It's like watching someone discover they're standing on the thing they're about to short sell. The "Big Short 2026" format suggests we're heading toward another market collapse, except this time it's the job market getting wrecked by AI. Burry's track record of being catastrophically right about catastrophic things makes this extra unsettling. Time to learn underwater basket weaving—surely AI can't do that... right?

PC Gamers When They Ask Jensen Why He's Making Less GPUs With RGB

Hardware AI Gamedev Cloud

6 hours ago 87.8K views 0 shares

PC Gamers When They Ask Jensen Why He's Making Less GPUs With RGB

Jensen Huang and Nvidia have quietly pivoted from selling RGB-laden gaming GPUs to becoming an AI datacenter empire worth trillions. That revenue chart tells the whole story—gaming revenue is basically a rounding error now compared to the datacenter money printer. PC gamers are out here begging for affordable GPUs with pretty lights while Jensen's counting his AI billions and couldn't care less about your 240fps dreams. The leather jacket man realized that selling one H100 to OpenAI is worth more than selling a thousand RTX 4090s to gamers who just want to play Cyberpunk with ray tracing. Sorry gamers, but you've been dumped for a more profitable relationship with enterprise clients who actually pay without complaining about MSRP.

Different Reaction At Every Level

Testing Agile Programming Debugging

6 hours ago 92.8K views 1 shares

Tester finds a bug and gets pure, unadulterated joy. Another one for the collection. Developer hears about a bug and stays calm, professional—just another Tuesday. Manager hears about a bug and enters full panic mode because now there's a meeting to schedule, a timeline to explain, and stakeholders to appease. The hierarchy of suffering is real. Testers live for this moment. Developers have accepted their fate. Managers? They're already drafting the incident report in their heads.

If You Have No Job You Must Suffer

Webdev Javascript Frontend

7 hours ago 98.4K views 0 shares

ATS web developers living their BEST LIFE with autocomplete enabled while job seekers are out here manually typing every. single. character. like it's 1995 and we're all using Notepad. The absolute AUDACITY of job posting websites disabling autocomplete! Nothing says "we care about candidate experience" quite like forcing desperate job seekers to retype their email address seventeen times because the form won't remember it. Meanwhile, the devs who built this monstrosity are probably sipping lattes with all their fancy IDE features intact. The class divide has never been more real – it's literally autocomplete="on" vs autocomplete="off" and honestly? That's the cruelest form of gatekeeping imaginable.

Different Reaction

Debugging Agile Programming Testing

7 hours ago 105.7K views 0 shares

The hierarchy of panic when someone says "bug" is truly a masterpiece of workplace psychology. Testers are basically giddy with excitement—finally, validation for their existence! They found something! Time to write that detailed ticket with 47 screenshots. Developers? Meh. Just another Tuesday. They've seen enough bugs to know it's probably a feature request in disguise or something that'll take 5 minutes to fix but 3 hours to explain why it happened. Managers though? Instant existential crisis. Their brain immediately calculates: delayed release + angry clients + budget overruns + explaining to stakeholders why the "simple project" is now a dumpster fire. That's the face of someone mentally drafting an apology email at 2 AM.

Meeting The Senior Dev

Programming

9 hours ago 132.0K views 0 shares

You walk in all starry-eyed, ready to meet the legendary senior dev who's been at the company since the codebase was written in Assembly. You're expecting some towering figure of wisdom and authority. Instead, you get someone who looks like they've been debugging production issues for the last 72 hours straight and has the emotional energy of a drained battery. The height difference here? That's the gap between your expectations and reality. You thought you'd meet a guru. You got someone who's just... tired. Very, very tired. They've seen things. Merge conflicts that would make you weep. Legacy code that predates version control. They're not intimidating because they're brilliant—they're intimidating because they've survived. Fun fact: Senior developers aren't actually taller in real life, but their commit history definitely towers over yours.

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