Brain Atrophy: The ChatGPT Effect

Remember when we spent hours implementing binary trees and sorting algorithms from scratch? Now there's a line of developers sprinting toward ChatGPT while the "Data Structures & Algorithms" door collects dust. Why bother with Big O notation when you can just prompt engineer your way to a solution? The irony is we still need those fundamentals to understand if ChatGPT's code will crash and burn in production. But hey, who has time for that when deadlines are yesterday?

STOP THE PRESSES! The AI world is just one gigantic game of musical chairs where EVERYONE gets to be "the world's most powerful model" for exactly 37 seconds! 🎭 It's the tech industry's most dramatic soap opera - OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and random startups playing hot potato with the "most powerful" crown in this chaotic circle of hype. One minute Claude is the golden child, then Gemini steals the spotlight, then Grok crashes the party! Meanwhile, developers are having existential crises trying to keep up with which API to integrate THIS week. By the time GPT-5 launches, we'll all be too emotionally exhausted to care! 💀

When you ask ChatGPT to write code for itself and it gives you that look . The digital equivalent of asking a chef to cook himself for dinner. The audacity of some users thinking they can just casually request the AI to create its own replacement is both hilarious and slightly terrifying. Next thing you'll be asking it to solve the halting problem while making you coffee.

The second you mention you're learning to code, every relative suddenly transforms into Usain Bolt chasing you down with AI course recommendations. Nothing says "supportive family" like implying your freshly-learned print("Hello World") is already obsolete before you've even figured out how loops work. The programming journey: 10% learning syntax, 90% sprinting away from people telling you that what you're learning is already outdated. Pro tip: develop selective hearing - it's the most valuable skill in your coding toolkit.

From using LLMs to create marketing materials to weaponizing them against themselves. It's the circle of AI life. Companies now build fake websites specifically designed to be scraped by LLMs during training, just so their marketing garbage shows up when users ask for recommendations. Diabolical? Yes. Effective? Unfortunately.

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