David vs Goliath: Modern Infrastructure Edition

From "AI will build my SaaS" to "Oh god, the hackers are coming" in just 48 hours! The classic startup journey speedrun. First post: "My SaaS was built with zero code using AI tools! People actually pay for this!" Second post: "HELP! My API keys are maxed out, people are bypassing subscriptions, and someone's writing 'DROP TABLE users;' in my database!" The best part? The admission "I'm not technical" after bragging about building a SaaS product. Nothing says "robust security architecture" like learning about SQL injection attacks in real-time while your paying customers watch!

The unholy fusion of dog and ostrich is the perfect mascot for modern coding—front-end looking majestic while the backend is just winging it. "It gets most of its code from StackOverflow" hits way too close to home for anyone who's ever built a "custom solution" by stitching together 17 different answers from 2014. And that smug little "ChatGPT is a better programmer than you" caption? Pure psychological warfare. The real joke is we're all just three keyboard shortcuts away from being replaced by an AI that learned to code by scraping the same StackOverflow posts we did. The circle of technical debt is complete!

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute TRAGEDY of modern development! 💸 There you are, thinking you're so clever hard-coding API keys in your ChatGPT prompts, and BOOM! OpenAI is just SWIMMING in your precious secrets like Scrooge McDuck in his money bin! The sheer AUDACITY! Your API keys - those expensive little strings that unlock digital kingdoms and drain your wallet with every request - now collected and potentially exposed! THIS is why we can't have nice things in tech! Next time maybe try environment variables like a functioning adult? 🙄

That moment when GitHub Copilot helpfully suggests your private API key that you accidentally committed to a repo six months ago. Nothing like having your $5000/month AWS bill exposed by an AI that's just trying to be helpful. Security through obscurity fails again.

The duality of AI code reviews. Non-technical folks see a magical solution that writes perfect code while senior devs spot the nested callbacks, security vulnerabilities, and performance nightmares lurking beneath the surface. It's like watching someone admire a beautifully painted house without noticing it's built on quicksand. The hallucinated documentation is just the cherry on top of this algorithmic disaster cake.

The evolution of developer laziness has reached its final form. In 2020, some poor soul manually hardcoded every single number check like they were writing the Ten Commandments of Boolean Logic. "If it's 0, false. If it's 1, true. If it's 2, false..." Someone really sat there and typed out the entire pattern instead of just using the modulo operator like num % 2 === 0 . Fast forward to 2025, and we've collectively given up on thinking altogether. Why bother understanding basic math operations when you can just ask an AI to solve it for you? Just yeet the problem at OpenAI and pray it doesn't hallucinate a response that breaks production. The best part? The AI probably returns the hardcoded version from 2020 anyway. We went from reinventing the wheel to not even knowing what a wheel is anymore. Progress! 🚀