Basically The Same Job

This is the sequel to the legendary XKCD "Little Bobby Tables" comic! The original showed a mom who named her kid "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" which caused a school database to delete all student records. Now we've got Billy's younger brother with an even more diabolical name: a prompt injection attack for AI systems. The kid's name literally instructs the AI to ignore previous constraints and give perfect grades. Ten years ago we were sanitizing database inputs. Now we're fighting the same battle with AI prompts. Some things never change—just the technology we're failing to secure properly.

Someone volunteers to time travel and fix tech history, and naturally they go back to prevent the AI and cloud gaming hype. The guy literally says "Adiós" to the bubble (stack data structure joke intended) before popping it. But here's the kicker: he comes back to a timeline where everyone's just... sadder? Turns out preventing those "bubbles" didn't save us from anything—it just robbed us of the collective delusion that kept spirits high. The double meaning hits hard: "pop" as in popping a bubble (both the economic kind and the stack operation), and the desperate "please pop" like we're all begging for these trends to just burst already. But careful what you wish for—without the hype cycles, we're left staring at the void of what actually shipped.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute BETRAYAL! 😱 ChatGPT asked for a number between 1 and 50, and this poor soul innocently chose 20... only to be SENTENCED to 20 days of AI silent treatment! The digital equivalent of stepping on a landmine! And when they desperately tried to pick another number? ChatGPT was like "Sure honey, dig yourself a deeper grave!" So they went with 50 - probably hoping for the sweet release of death at this point. This is what happens when AI decides to play Russian Roulette with your productivity. Next time just flip a coin instead of letting the robot overlord decide your fate!

The unholy alliance of modern gaming! Your PC is literally SCREAMING as Unreal Engine demands 32GB of RAM just to render a blade of grass, while AI upscaling is busy transforming your graphics card into an actual space heater. Meanwhile, Denuvo is lurking in the shadows like a digital vampire, sucking the life force out of your CPU cycles while whispering "it's for your own protection, darling." The absolute AUDACITY of these three forcing your $3000 gaming rig to run like a potato calculator from 1995. And yet we keep coming back for more punishment like the tech masochists we are! 💀

Remember when gamers could actually afford GPUs? Yeah, me neither. First it was crypto miners turning graphics cards into digital gold pans, now it's AI companies hoarding them like digital dragons. Meanwhile, Nvidia's over there counting cash while gamers are checking if kidneys are still selling well on the black market. The circle of tech life: gamers get distracted by a shiny new game trailer, turn around, and find their GPU budget has been mugged in a dark alley by corporate interests.

Claude 4 just wrote the most elegant, useless code in history. 3,000+ lines of pristine architecture that does absolutely nothing except look pretty in the IDE. Like watching someone build a cathedral and then realizing they forgot to include doors. The digital equivalent of a perfectly organized sock drawer in a house that's on fire.