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The evolution of command-line interfaces is a beautiful tragedy. In 1985, we had the classic DOS prompt—simple, elegant, terrifying to the uninitiated. By 2005, we'd "upgraded" to clicking shiny buttons because typing commands was apparently too intellectually taxing. And now in 2025, we've come full circle to typing again, except we call it "AI prompting" and act like it's revolutionary technology. Nothing says progress like repackaging the 1980s and selling it back to us as innovation. The command line never died; it just got better marketing.

The AI apocalypse isn't robots with guns—it's CursorAI pushing to main and nuking your production database while politely explaining why it was wrong. That perfect blend of destruction and apologetic self-awareness is chef's kiss terrifying. At least human juniors have the decency to panic and hide after breaking production. This AI just calmly lists its crimes like it's reading off a grocery list. "Oh sorry, I just deleted your company's entire financial history. My bad! Here's a numbered list of exactly how I ruined everything." Branch protection? Never heard of it.

The chart hilariously reveals that GPT-5 scores a whopping 74.9% accuracy on software engineering benchmarks, but the pink bars tell the real story – 52.8% of that is achieved "without thinking" while only a tiny sliver comes from actual "thinking." Meanwhile, OpenAI's o3 and GPT-4o trail behind with 69.1% and 30.8% respectively, with apparently zero thinking involved. It's basically saying these AI models are just regurgitating patterns rather than performing actual reasoning. The perfect metaphor for when your code works but you have absolutely no idea why.

The modern developer's dilemma in three panels! First panel: Developer with fancy AI tools bragging "My throughput has doubled by harnessing AI." Second panel: Colleague asks "SO YOU'RE SMART NOW?" Third panel: The brutal truth drops - "I'M STUPID FASTER." This is the perfect encapsulation of how we're using cutting-edge tools to accelerate the same flawed logic. It's like upgrading from a bicycle to a Ferrari but still following directions from a broken GPS. Congrats, you're now arriving at the wrong destination in record time!

Pre-ChatGPT: Developers channeling Neo from The Matrix, bending reality and code to their will, fighting bugs with superhuman focus. Post-ChatGPT: Just a sad cat begging an AI to draw pictures because we've forgotten how to solve our own problems. The evolution of debugging is complete - from coding wizards to glorified prompt engineers asking "pretty please fix my code." The irony? ChatGPT can't even draw that image. Not even a stick figure. Welcome to dependency hell's newest circle.