Copilot False Hopes

JetBrains turning down the boring responsible work of fixing bugs and adding features in favor of shoving AI into everything is peak 2023 software development. The industry's collective hallucination that AI will magically solve problems we can't even articulate properly is hilarious. Meanwhile, users just want their damn IDE to stop crashing during compile time. But hey, now it can auto-complete with the confidence of a junior dev who skimmed Stack Overflow for 5 minutes!

GitHub's savage billboard burns us all to a crisp with brutal honesty. They trained their AI Copilot on our garbage code, then have the audacity to hang a building-sized sign explaining why their tool produces questionable results. It's like blaming the student for the teacher's incompetence—except we're the incompetent teachers. The ultimate "it's not me, it's you" breakup line from the tech world. Next time your PR gets rejected, just point at this billboard and say "not my fault, I'm just a product of my environment."

A clever nod to Apple TV+'s "Severance" where the character's work self ("innie") is separated from their outside self ("outie"). Just like how developers have two personalities: the one who stubbornly refuses AI assistance at home, and the one who secretly lets GitHub Copilot write half their codebase at work. We all have principles until the deadline is tomorrow.

Ah, the famous Lincoln quote about prompt engineering. Turns out Honest Abe was ahead of his time by about 150 years. The joke here is that modern developers spend more time crafting the perfect AI prompt than actually coding the solution. Two-thirds of your "coding" time goes into explaining to an AI what you want, using buzzwords like "agentic b2b SaaS" that would make any venture capitalist swoon. Lincoln freed the slaves but couldn't free us from documentation.

When NVIDIA drops a flex video about their shiny new supercomputer literally ONE HOUR before their stock crashes harder than a null pointer exception. The timing couldn't be worse if they tried. Imagine watching someone enthusiastically show off their expensive GPU setup while you're sitting there knowing what's about to happen to the market. It's like watching someone propose right before finding out they're about to get fired. The cognitive dissonance is chef's kiss . Nothing says "oof" quite like 54K people collectively experiencing secondhand financial embarrassment through a YouTube thumbnail.

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