Brain Atrophy: The ChatGPT Effect

The modern developer's apocalypse: your code is on fire, production is crashing, and ChatGPT just responded with "I'm sorry, but I don't have enough context to debug your specific issue." Meanwhile you're just sitting there, surrounded by flames, eerily calm like SpongeBob, because this is the third time this week and you've transcended panic into a state of zen-like acceptance.

Behold the great decline of our noble profession. We went from muscle-bound legends who wrote code without AI crutches and built entire games in Assembly (because apparently pain is character-building) to modern keyboard jockeys who can't center a div without consulting Google for the 47th time today. The golden age programmer fixed memory leaks by hand, while we're over here begging ChatGPT to fix our syntax errors like it's our personal code therapist. And let's not forget the programmer trapped in Vim since 2018 because :q! is apparently harder to remember than differential calculus. The final insult? We fix one bug and create three more. It's not a development cycle, it's a pyramid scheme.

Turns out both chefs and AI "developers" are just throwing ingredients together and hoping something edible comes out. The difference? Chefs actually know what basil is. Ten years of writing clean, maintainable code just to be replaced by someone who knows how to type "make me a full-stack app with blockchain integration" into a text box. At least the spaghetti I'm eating tastes better than the spaghetti code these AI tools are churning out.

Someone discovered "vibe coding" with AI and thinks they're a developer now. Next week they'll discover what debugging AI-generated code is like when their app crashes in production and the error message is just "vibes were off." The honeymoon phase of AI coding always ends when you realize the AI confidently wrote 300 lines of beautiful nonsense that imports packages that don't exist.

Oh honey, the AUDACITY! 💅 Developers gleefully celebrating AI replacing customer support? *chef's kiss* Journalists getting automated? *slow clap* But the MOMENT AI comes for THEIR precious jobs? Suddenly it's a national crisis! The panic in those eyes when the robot revolution reaches their cubicle is EVERYTHING! It's giving "rules for thee but not for me" energy and I am LIVING for this karmic comeuppance! The tech world's selective outrage is simply *too* delicious!

Ah, the classic "asking AI to do your actual job" maneuver! This tweet perfectly showcases the modern developer's workflow: 1) Hear about LLMs 2) Immediately try to outsource your data parsing tasks that you're probably paid six figures to handle. The irony is that parsing documents between formats is literally what programming languages have been doing for decades. It's like asking "Is there a car specifically designed for driving?" while sitting in a Ferrari. Pro tip: Yes, there are LLMs for this. They're called "learning regex" and "using libraries that already exist." Revolutionary concept!