Can We Start Calling AI By Its Real Name

The eternal battle between sales and engineering continues! Sales execs looking at new projects like they're discovering the One Ring to rule them all – "Let's sprinkle some blockchain and AI on it!" Meanwhile, developers are channeling their inner Aragorn with a firm "NO" that contains the exhaustion of a thousand pointless standups. It's the corporate version of "We have blockchain at home. The blockchain at home: an Excel spreadsheet with a password." The irony? Most projects that "need" blockchain and AI could be solved with a decent database and some if/else statements.

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Nothing says "we care about the planet" quite like training your next LLM on the entire internet while entire villages ration their drinking water. Tech companies out here acting like their AI features are essential to human survival, meanwhile data centers are chugging water like it's a free resource. "But we NEED to add AI to this toaster app!" Sure, Karen, and those farmers need water to grow food, but priorities, right? The best part? Every product announcement now includes "powered by AI" like it's a badge of honor, while conveniently omitting the environmental impact report. Your smart fridge's ability to suggest recipes based on expired milk is definitely worth draining local aquifers for.

Ah, the eternal developer paradox. When someone shows us AI-generated code, we instantly recognize it as a tangled mess of bugs and questionable design choices. "This is brilliant," we say with thinly veiled sarcasm. But then there's our own code—equally disastrous, probably held together with duct tape and prayers—and somehow we're irrationally attached to it. "But I like this." It's like criticizing someone else's kid for being messy while your own demon spawn is literally setting the house on fire. The cognitive dissonance is strong in this profession.

AI evangelists love to pitch that you can now build apps without knowing how to code. Just prompt your way to success, they say. Ship features with vibes alone. But here's the thing: AI can't fix the fact that your brain is a barren wasteland of unoriginal thoughts. You still need something worth building. Turns out the bottleneck was never the coding—it was having a single interesting idea in the first place. So congrats, you've automated the easy part and still can't ship because you're stuck staring at a blank canvas wondering what the 47th todo app should look like.

Congratulations! You've been selected to experience the 47th AI assistant that'll revolutionize your workflow this week! Companies are sprinting to slap "AI" on literally anything with an if-statement while developers are increasingly immune to the hype. We've reached the point where hearing "our revolutionary AI assistant" triggers the same response as getting another LinkedIn message from a recruiter who "noticed your impressive experience." The mute button has never looked so appealing.