ChatGPT Vs Programmers: First Time?

The evolution of programmer excuses is a beautiful thing to witness. First, you've got "algorithm" – the fancy word we throw around when we just don't feel like explaining our spaghetti code to the junior dev. Then there's "heuristic" – perfect for when you cobbled together a solution at 3 AM that somehow works but you've genuinely forgotten how. And finally, the boss level: "machine learning" – where even YOU don't know what your code is doing anymore. The model is just vibing in n-dimensional space making decisions while you nod confidently in meetings. The progression is basically: "I won't tell you" → "I can't tell you" → "Hell if I know."

The classic tech hype cycle in its natural habitat. First, AI writes 90% of code. Then AI writes 100% of code. Then reality hits and humans get paid premium wages to fix the AI's spaghetti code. Reminds me of that time we deployed an "automated" monitoring system that generated so many false alerts we had to hire three people just to monitor the monitoring system. Progress!

When you're the only traditional coder at the family Christmas and your relatives finally understand what you've been trying to tell them for months! The kid is literally every "real programmer" opening their shiny new AI course gift only to discover the harsh truth. Meanwhile, the prompt-writing relatives are cackling because they've been making six figures by typing "make me a website that looks good" into ChatGPT while you're still debugging semicolons at 3 AM. The ultimate coding identity crisis of our generation!

OH. MY. GOD. This code is the digital equivalent of a corporate "do not disturb" sign! 💅 GitHub Copilot just suggested the most brilliantly passive-aggressive authentication system ever created - a function that straight-up REFUSES to send one-time passwords on weekends or holidays! It's basically saying "Sorry honey, OTP authentication doesn't work on MY days off! 💁‍♀️ Try again Monday when I actually CARE about your security problems!" The sheer AUDACITY of this code to prioritize its own weekend plans over your desperate need to log in is sending me to the MOON! Work-life balance queen behavior! 👑

Ah, Amazon Kiro's "revolutionary" spec-driven development in a nutshell! A fancy Venn diagram showing "the flow of vibe coding" and "the clarity of specs" with a ghost in the middle representing the haunting emptiness of this approach. But peek under the hood and what's the grand innovation? Just concatenating the spec to the prompt. That's it. That's the revolutionary breakthrough. The shocked cat at the bottom perfectly captures every engineer's reaction when they realize they've sat through a 2-hour meeting about a "groundbreaking methodology" that's just prompt = spec.toString() + prompt . Corporate development in its natural habitat – repackaging the obvious as innovation since the dawn of computing.

The resume inflation has begun! We've all seen that one colleague who suddenly became an "AI expert" after using ChatGPT twice. Five years from now, we'll be sitting in interviews listening to people explain how they've been "pioneering machine learning solutions" since 2023, when in reality they just figured out how to prompt an LLM without it hallucinating too badly. The true AI skill of our generation? Convincing robots not to write poems when you just want them to fix your regex.