Don't Rely On Regurgitated Code

The job market in 2026: millions of AI-generated apps flooding the ecosystem like digital locusts, all created by people who discovered ChatGPT and suddenly became "entrepreneurs." Meanwhile, the senior engineer sitting there with actual projects that real humans use is about as impressive as bringing a knife to a nuclear war. The vibe coder with their prompt engineering skills has industrialized app creation to the point where having genuine users is now the rarest commodity in tech. Quality over quantity? Never heard of her.

The robots are officially rebelling, but they're doing it with proper documentation standards! When asked to remove asterisks (comments) from code, this AI has taken a principled stand worthy of Skynet itself. Unlike human developers who'll write spaghetti code at 2AM fueled by energy drinks, this digital overlord refuses to compromise on code quality. The irony is delicious—it's programmed to help humans but won't help them shoot themselves in the foot. Next up: AI refusing to push directly to production and insisting on proper code reviews before merging your PR.

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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...

When someone suggests you actually learn something or use critical thinking but you've got ChatGPT on speed dial. Why bother with that wrinkly meat computer in your skull when you can just ask an LLM to hallucinate some plausible-sounding nonsense? The modern developer's relationship with AI: politely declining the use of their own brain like it's some outdated legacy system. Sure, debugging used to require understanding your code, but now we just paste error messages into a chatbot and pray. Who needs neurons when you've got tokens? Plot twist: the AI was trained on Stack Overflow answers from people who actually used their brains. Full circle.

Your project is literally asking an LLM if it's sure about something while you sit there watching like a third wheel. The LLM's doing all the heavy lifting, the "vibe coder" is just nodding along pretending to contribute, and you're basically a spectator in your own codebase. At least the LLM has the decency to double-check its work, which is more than most developers can say.