The one and only test

The apocalypse has begun. Both Stack Overflow and Claude AI are down for maintenance simultaneously. That peaceful smile in the top panel? That's the face of a developer who just realized they've got the perfect excuse to call in sick. "Sorry boss, can't debug that critical production issue—my entire support system is offline." The panic in the bottom panel hits when you realize you actually have a deadline today and your entire career now depends on those dusty O'Reilly books you bought "just in case" and never opened. Bonus horror: that R6009 error is "not enough space for environment" which is dev-speak for "your computer is literally too full of npm packages to function anymore."

The ghost of Stack Overflow past returns with a new disguise! Those AI coding assistants promising to revolutionize programming are just our old friend "unhelpful help" wearing a fancy sheet. You unmask it to reveal the same frustrating experience we've always had - intrusive popups asking if you need help writing a letter when you're clearly in the middle of debugging a critical production issue. The "Don't show me this tip again" checkbox might as well be connected to /dev/null for all the good it does. The more things change, the more they stay infuriatingly the same.

The eternal struggle with AI coding assistants! That moment when you're desperately trying to avoid Copilot's "helpful" suggestions because you know they'll introduce six new bugs that'll crash your entire project. It's like having a well-meaning but chaotic intern who keeps trying to "fix" your code while you physically try to block their keyboard access. The hands hovering defensively over the keyboard perfectly capture that "please stop helping me" energy every developer has felt when an AI decides to "optimize" perfectly functional code.

The only difference between AI consultants and LLMs is that one costs $300/hour. Both will confidently hallucinate a solution to your problem using words nobody understands, then gaslight you when it doesn't work. At least the LLM admits it's not sentient... yet.

The AI equivalent of the classic Vim trap. Codex is desperately trying to escape with increasingly unhinged "END" and "STOP" commands, just like every developer's first Vim experience. The frantic "STOP++ I'm going insane" is basically the machine learning version of frantically Googling "how to exit vim" while questioning your career choices. The AI has discovered what we've known for decades - some prisons have no escape sequence.

Nothing like the sweet smell of career arbitrage in the morning. Just slap "AI" on your LinkedIn profile and watch your market value triple while recruiters trip over themselves to throw gold bars at you. Meanwhile, you're still running the same SQL queries and data pipelines you were last week, but now you're an "AI visionary" commanding a small fortune. The industry's collective amnesia about what skills actually matter is the gift that keeps on giving. Capitalism at its finest, folks.