Can't Wait For Bubble Burst

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Can't Wait For Bubble Burst

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You know the AI bubble has officially jumped the shark when companies are hiring robots over actual humans. The rejection email is bad enough, but finding out you lost the job to something that can't even pass a CAPTCHA? That stings differently.

Every tech company right now is slapping "AI-powered" on everything like it's some magic solution, replacing their entire workforce with chatbots that hallucinate half their responses. Sure, the AI can write code... but can it survive a 3-hour standup meeting about sprint velocity? Can it pretend to care about the company pizza party? Didn't think so.

The real kicker is when this bubble pops and companies realize their AI "senior developer" has been confidently writing bugs for six months straight. But hey, at least it doesn't ask for equity or complain about work-life balance.

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