Can't Be That Hard

The eternal developer hamster wheel, featuring sad Pepe as our protagonist. Try AI coding, get buggy production crashes. Fall back to manual coding, trigger impatient manager. Repeat until retirement or mental breakdown, whichever comes first. The modern tech cycle isn't about finding solutions—it's about choosing which problem you prefer having today.

Remember when 8GB VRAM was god-tier? Now it's the bare minimum for running those bloated AI models and rendering engines. $400 for entry-level specs that would've been flagship material a decade ago is the new normal. The hardware inflation is so bad that we're genuinely excited about mediocrity. Next we'll be celebrating when our IDE opens in under a minute.

That moment when your revolutionary AI startup's tech stack is just a fancy wrapper around someone else's API. The shocked cat perfectly captures the existential crisis of realizing you're not building the future—you're just paying OpenAI's bills while adding a markup for your investors. But hey, that Series A funding hit your bank account, so who's really winning here?

Crypto bros: "LLM token pricing is the future of finance!" Developers: *puts on glasses to see clearly* "Oh, you mean paying $0.0001 per API call until my wallet mysteriously empties after a for-loop gone wrong?" Nothing says "fun game for developers" quite like watching your credit card get charged in real-time while debugging a recursive function. It's just Candy Crush but instead of running out of lives, you're running out of rent money.

The perfect metaphor for GitHub Copilot's autocomplete functionality! You start typing some code with a clear intention in mind, and Copilot jumps in with the confidence of someone who absolutely knows what you're going to say... except it's hilariously off-target. Just like when you're about to deliver a profound statement and someone interjects with "sandwiches?" The AI is trying so hard to be helpful but sometimes the suggestions are so wildly disconnected from your actual coding intentions that you can't help but laugh. It's that special relationship where you type "const authenticate = async (user" and Copilot suggests "...PizzaDeliveryOptions) =>"