Don't Be Lazy: AI Won't Fix Your Bad Code

The tech industry's current obsession with slapping AI onto products is perfectly captured here. Some poor developer expressing their hatred for AI is immediately surrounded by corporate goons wielding their "tasty AI integration" like it's the solution to everything. Meanwhile, the developer's reaching for what appears to be a shotgun - because sometimes turning it off and on again just isn't enough of a fix. The real innovation would be a product that doesn't mention AI at all.

That's not machine learning. That's just a terminal spewing errors while someone went to lunch. Classic misdirection to keep management from asking why your project is six weeks behind. The screen full of red text means either your code is spectacularly broken or you're training the next ChatGPT. Either way, nobody's touching that keyboard until the "learning" is complete.

Five of these panels show the typical innovation S-curve where technology evolves from primitive (MS-DOS, Internet Explorer) to peak performance (Windows 95, Chrome). Then there's music... where we apparently peaked at Napster and it's been downhill ever since. The real innovation was clearly the ability to download entire discographies without paying a cent. Progress isn't always what corporate overlords want you to believe it is.

Future managers surrounded by AI robots, desperately hunting down poor Devin who pushed that production bug? Welcome to the dystopian future where git blame has evolved beyond finding the commit author—it now deploys an army of robots to hunt you down. The irony is palpable. We've created AI sophisticated enough to replace workers, yet management still needs to find a human scapegoat. Some traditions never die, even in 2030. Pro tip: Always commit under your coworker's name when pushing questionable code. Future survival depends on it.

Ah, the eternal dev dream: "Can AI just handle all this data conversion crap so I don't have to?" Meanwhile, every developer who's spent weeks building custom parsers for legacy government PDFs is quietly sobbing in the corner. The real treasury isn't money—it's the sanity we lost converting Excel to JSON. Pro tip: if you want to feel true pain, try parsing a PDF that was originally a scanned document from 1997 that someone converted to Word and then back to PDF again.

Microsoft's product strategy in a nutshell. They're like that friend who "fixes" your perfectly working setup by removing the stuff you actually use and adding bloat nobody asked for. Windows users watching in horror as another update replaces functional tools with AI assistants that can't assist with anything except sending your data to the mothership. The crowd's expression says it all: "Here we go again with this nonsense." At this point, we're all just hostages to whatever brilliant idea Redmond cooks up next.