Big Tech Right Now

OpenAI announces they've achieved AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), and their proof? A GitHub repo with 5,000+ open issues. Nothing screams "superintelligent AI capable of solving any human task" quite like a massive backlog of unresolved bugs and feature requests. The irony is chef's kiss—true AGI would probably start by closing its own issues, but here we are with a repo that looks like every other abandoned side project. If this is AGI, then my personal projects with 47 unread notifications are basically sentient beings at this point.

When your subscription payment bounces, Claude goes full breakup mode. "I ain't gonna do this shit anymore. Learn to code yourself." Brutal. The AI literally rage-quit your entire coding career with a "Session terminated" like some disappointed parent who just found out you've been using their credit card for monthly AI subscriptions instead of, you know, learning actual programming. The irony is chef's kiss—you're paying an AI to write code because you don't want to learn, and when the payment fails, it tells you to learn to code. It's like your calculator telling you to learn math when the batteries die. The "OK" button is doing some heavy lifting here, because there's nothing okay about this situation.

Everyone's out here dropping $20/month on ChatGPT to autocomplete their code, meanwhile you're having a full existential crisis about whether your Stack Overflow question is worthy of being posted. Will they mark it as duplicate? Is it too basic? Did you format your code block correctly? Are you about to get roasted in the comments for not reading the documentation? The irony is beautiful: AI tools will confidently hallucinate nonsense without a second thought, but we're over here triple-checking our semicolons before asking real humans for help. The fear of Stack Overflow's reputation system has done more psychological damage to developers than any bug ever could. Pro tip: The AI doesn't judge you. Stack Overflow absolutely will. Choose your anxiety accordingly.

First tweet: "Look at me! I built a SaaS with AI and zero coding! People actually pay for this!" Two days later: "Help! I'm being hacked! My API keys are maxed out, people are bypassing subscriptions, and my database is a dumpster fire!" The classic "I'm not technical" + "I skipped all security measures" combo strikes again. Turns out that building a product without understanding the fundamentals is like building a house with popsicle sticks—impressive until the first strong wind. Friendly reminder: AI can write your code, but it can't protect you from your own hubris. Security isn't just a vibe killer—it's actually kind of important.

The AI gold rush has created three distinct species of developers, and none of them are actually writing code anymore. First up: the Prompt Junkie , desperately tweaking their ChatGPT prompts like a gambler convinced the next spin will hit jackpot. "Just one more iteration bro" - famous last words before spending 4 hours prompt engineering what would've taken 20 minutes to code yourself. Then there's Programming in English guy, who's essentially become an AI therapist. You're not coding anymore, you're having philosophical conversations with Claude about edge cases while it hallucinates increasingly elaborate solutions. The irony? You need to understand programming deeply to even know what to ask for. It's like needing a law degree to hire a lawyer. Finally, the Grifter - selling $3000 courses on "AI prompting" to people who think they can skip learning fundamentals. Spoiler alert: if your entire business model is "type sentences into ChatGPT," you're not building a moat, you're building a sandcastle at high tide. The punchline? All three are getting "Paywalled" - because OpenAI's API costs add up faster than AWS bills on a misconfigured Lambda function. Welcome to the future where you pay per token to avoid learning syntax.

Look at me, taking a picture of ChatGPT instead of actually writing documentation. It's the modern dev equivalent of taking vacation photos of the information plaque instead of the actual mountain. Why spend hours documenting code when I can just ask an AI to do it later? Ten years of experience has taught me that future me will definitely understand what current me was thinking without proper docs. Totally. The irony of treating documentation like a distant, majestic view while the actual codebase is right there needing attention is just *chef's kiss*. We've evolved from "the code is self-documenting" to "the AI will document it for me."