Designers vs Programmers: The AI Generation Wars

The corporate circle of life in the AI era. Both managers and developers secretly fantasizing about using generative AI to eliminate each other from the equation. Meanwhile, AI is quietly taking notes on how to get rid of both. The digital equivalent of two people plotting each other's demise while standing on the same trapdoor.

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The modern coding triangle of dependency! Students and ChatGPT walk hand-in-hand down the path of enlightenment (or cheating, depending on who you ask), while Stack Overflow watches from the shadows like a disappointed parent who knows they'll come crawling back eventually. Remember the good old days when we actually had to understand error messages? Now it's just "Hey ChatGPT, fix this garbage code" followed by "Actually, let me check Stack Overflow because this AI hallucinated a function that doesn't exist." The circle of developer life continues...

The existential crisis when your janky database cursor hack actually works the first time. You wanted to show the junior dev that AI isn't infallible, but now you're stuck pretending this monstrosity of multi-file cursor service was intentional design. The look of panic in the fourth panel says it all—you've become what you swore to destroy: someone whose terrible code works perfectly by accident. The universe is mocking your debugging skills.

Ah, the classic "spend 2 minutes and 2 seconds to count to 10" problem. ChatGPT just turned basic geometry into a research dissertation. That's the same energy as developers who write 200 lines of documentation for a function that returns true or false. The best part? It's clearly a heptagon (7 sides), but ChatGPT's counting each "distinct corner" like it's being paid by the vertex. Next up: AI spending 4 minutes explaining why 2+2=5 with "reasoned thinking."

Someone's school just accidentally exposed the entire LLM prompt to students! The screenshot shows the system instructions for an AI teaching assistant that's supposed to give hints without providing full answers. It's literally telling the AI to say "Nice Job!" if answers are close and "Try Again!" if they're wrong. This is like catching your teacher with their answer key hanging out of their pocket. The digital equivalent of finding the "How to Pretend You're a Good Teacher" manual left open on the desk. Whoever configured this system just gave students a behind-the-scenes peek at how the AI sausage is made!