AI Hype Wave

Nine data professionals standing around watching while one Excel guru does all the actual work. Classic corporate data science theater. The entire AI department, with their fancy degrees and machine learning models, rendered useless by someone who mastered VLOOKUP and pivot tables. That's what happens when you spend $2 million on a data lake but can't figure out how to drain a real one.

Remember when we actually had to memorize algorithms and syntax? Now my brain's shrinking faster than my will to whiteboard during interviews. The top image shows Homer Simpson's brain scan before ChatGPT, all plump and functional. The bottom shows what's left after outsourcing our thinking to AI - just enough neurons to type "write me a function that..." and hit enter. Evolution in reverse, folks - soon we'll just be fingers attached to a coffee mug.

Simple task: print numbers 1-10. Developer asks ChatGPT to do it. Instead of a basic loop, it delivers a recursive function. "Not bad," thinks the developer, and asks for optimization. ChatGPT's response? "Let's spawn threads for each recursive call!" The result is computational chaos—a CPU-melting, fan-screaming disaster that turns a 3-line solution into a parallel processing nightmare. It's like asking for a screwdriver and getting a nuclear-powered jackhammer with rocket boosters. Classic AI overengineering at its finest!

Forget complex algorithms! This Python developer decided to outsource the "is odd number" check to ChatGPT. Just casually burning through API credits to determine if a number has a remainder when divided by 2. The function makes a full API call, parses the response, and checks if the answer contains "yes" - all to replace a simple return number % 2 != 0 . Peak computational efficiency! 💸

Oh snap! The classic tech industry bait-and-switch! 😂 Companies be like "Check out our REVOLUTIONARY AI system" and then the fine print reveals it's actually just outsourced human labor! Amazon's "just walk out" checkout tech that everyone thought was some magical computer vision breakthrough? Surprise! It was 1,000 humans in India watching cameras the whole time! The astronaut meme perfectly captures that moment when the tech bubble bursts and we realize the "AI" behind the curtain is just people working for cheaper wages. Next time someone brags about their company's "AI solution," I'll be side-eyeing them wondering how many humans are actually powering that "algorithm"!

The circle of life in tech! Designers who can't code are now using AI to generate code, while developers who can't design are using AI to create visuals. It's the ultimate tech symbiosis where both sides are just frantically asking ChatGPT to do the part of the job they've been avoiding for years. Next up: AI using humans to generate more training data. The snake eats its tail!