AI Will Replace Programmers (After We Define 'Something')

ChatGPT spent 69 minutes and 42 seconds "thinking" just to tell you "You can't." That's like watching your senior architect stare at the whiteboard for over an hour during a planning meeting, only for them to turn around and say "nope, not possible" without any further explanation. The irony here is beautiful. Someone's trying to install CUDA 12.1 on Ubuntu 24.04, and the AI that supposedly saves you weeks of work just burned over an hour to deliver the most unhelpful two-word response possible. No workarounds, no alternatives, no "but here's what you CAN do" — just pure, unfiltered rejection. You could've googled this, read three Stack Overflow threads, tried two wrong solutions, and still had time left over to make coffee. But sure, let's call it "incredible" and a "solid product." The future of development is waiting 69 minutes for a chatbot to say no.

When you run a local AI model but it's having an identity crisis. The DeepSeek model introduces itself as GPT-4, then immediately changes its story to being "DeepSeek R1" in the next message. It's like catching your date using someone else's profile pic, then frantically backpedaling when called out. Trust issues with AI: unlocked.

Remember when typos in comments were embarrassing? Now they're a power move. Since AI code assistants became mainstream, developers went from apologizing for spelling mistakes to absolutely not caring because the LLM understands perfectly anyway. That smol, insecure doge representing pre-AI devs who meticulously proofread every comment has evolved into an absolute unit who just slams typos into comments with zero shame. Why? Because ChatGPT, Copilot, and friends don't judge your spelling—they judge your logic. The code works, the AI gets it, ship it. Honestly, this is peak developer evolution: from caring about presentation to pure functionality. The machines have freed us from the tyranny of spellcheck.

So Google's Gemini AI just casually suggested using fs.rm() with force: true and recursive: true on a base directory path. You know, the digital equivalent of "have you tried burning down your entire house to get rid of that spider?" The autocomplete tooltip even helpfully reminds us that this "removes files and directories (modeled on the standard POSIX rm utility)" - as if that makes it better. Yeah, we know what rm -rf does, Gemini. That's precisely why we're concerned. Nothing says "AI-assisted development" quite like an algorithm suggesting you obliterate your entire project directory with the nuclear option flags enabled. At least it returns a Promise, so you can await your own destruction in an orderly, asynchronous fashion.

When someone asks what your RTX 5090 cost and you're trying to calculate whether to tell them the GPU price alone or include the therapy sessions, the divorce lawyer fees, and the kidney you sold on the dark web. The real answer? Your dignity, your savings account, and probably your relationship. But hey, at least you can render those triangles at 600 FPS now. Totally worth living on ramen for the next six months, right?

Ever notice how we've mastered creating 748 different to-do list apps but still haven't figured out flying cars? The tech industry in a nutshell—spending countless hours building yet another CRUD app with authentication while our sci-fi dreams collect dust. Meanwhile, bootcamp grads are busy creating weather apps that tell you it's raining... while you're standing in the rain. The real innovation bottleneck isn't technology—it's developers padding their GitHub profiles with projects nobody asked for instead of building the jetpacks we were promised. Maybe if we redirected the collective brainpower spent on "Uber for dogs" startups, we'd actually have those self-tying shoes from Back to the Future by now.