Are Accountants Data Scientists?

The secret sauce of modern development revealed! When asked about becoming a coder, the honest answer isn't four years of computer science or mastering algorithms—it's just endlessly Googling error messages until something magically works. The uncomfortable truth is that 90% of our "expertise" is knowing exactly what to search for and which Stack Overflow answer to copy-paste. ChatGPT is just Google with extra steps and fewer captchas asking us to identify traffic lights.

Ancient Egyptians somehow managed to build architectural marvels without the corporate tech stack we can't seem to function without. No endless Teams meetings where everyone says "can you hear me?" No 57-slide pitch decks explaining the "stone moving paradigm." No AI that promises to optimize workflow but actually just creates more meetings about the AI. Just people dragging massive stones with pure human effort and mathematical precision. The real pyramid scheme was getting stuff done without a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the office snack selection.

Ah, the classic tech industry loyalty paradox. When OpenAI had that whole leadership meltdown, some employees heroically stayed aboard the sinking ship while others frantically updated their LinkedIn profiles. The joke here is that some folks weren't exactly "choosing" to stay loyal—they just had zero other employment options. It's like telling everyone you're "taking a sabbatical" when your inbox has tumbleweeds rolling through it. Nothing says "company loyalty" quite like the absence of alternatives.

The classic "rub the lamp and make a wish" scenario, but with a programmer twist. Some poor soul wishes NVIDIA wouldn't make GPUs with 8GB VRAM, and the genie's just like "yeah... not happening." It's the digital equivalent of asking for world peace. Even supernatural beings can't convince NVIDIA to put more memory in their mid-range cards without charging you a kidney. The genie doesn't even bother offering three wishes—just straight to "hopeless" because he knows the GPU market better than anyone.

When Meta's AI team decides to generate images of two dudes crossing the sea on a boat, their model apparently took "crossing the sea" a bit too literally and created... whatever aquatic nightmare fuel this is. The whales (or are they dolphins? sea monsters?) have merged into some Lovecraftian horror that's simultaneously crossing the sea AND becoming the sea. The "AI: Say no more" part is chef's kiss because it captures that beautiful moment when generative AI confidently delivers something that's technically correct but fundamentally cursed. You asked for two dudes on a boat? Here's two marine mammals fused together in ways that violate both biology and physics. The model understood the assignment... it just understood it in a dimension humans weren't meant to perceive. Classic case of AI hallucination meets image generation—where the training data probably had plenty of boats, plenty of sea creatures, but when you combine them with oddly specific prompts, you get body horror featuring cetaceans. The Pirates of the Caribbean reference is perfect because this looks like something from Davy Jones' fever dream.