Double Standards In Tech Recruitment

Ah yes, the modern debugging workflow: write broken code, catch the error, and let AI fix it for you. Because nothing says "senior developer" like outsourcing your bug fixes to ChatGPT. Next week: teaching AI to attend your standup meetings while you "work from hammock."

Remember when programmers were basically coding demigods who could bend computers to their will? Now we're just sad creatures Googling "how to center div" for the 500th time and begging AI to fix our mistakes. The golden age programmer wrote code without StackOverflow, crafted entire games in Assembly (you know, that language that makes you want to cry), manually fixed memory leaks with pointers, and literally hand-coded the software that put humans on the freaking moon. Meanwhile, modern programmers are trapped in Vim wondering why :q doesn't work, fixing one bug only to create three more like some kind of hydra nightmare, and asking ChatGPT to solve problems we should probably understand ourselves. The decline is real, folks. But hey, at least we have dark mode now.

While everyone's freaking out about AI taking over the world, the real crisis is watching humans get progressively dumber with each Stack Overflow copy-paste. We're not building Skynet; we're speedrunning our way back to the Stone Age armed with smartphones. The true evolutionary threat isn't robots becoming sentient—it's developers who can't function without ChatGPT writing their for-loops.

The eternal struggle of math majors who chose programming instead of the "traditional" math paths. On the left, we see the bright, colorful world of physics, machine learning, electrical engineering, statistics, and numerical analysis – all respectable career choices that utilize advanced mathematics. On the right, the noir film-style programmer, stripped of color and joy, questioning their life choices while debugging someone else's spaghetti code at 3 AM. That moment when you realize you could be solving differential equations but instead you're arguing with the compiler about why a semicolon is missing. The math degree prepared you to understand complex algorithms but forgot to mention you'd spend 90% of your time fixing indentation errors.

HONEY, PLEASE! Slapping an "AI" label on basic conditional logic is the tech equivalent of putting a Ferrari badge on your 1998 Toyota Corolla! 💅 The ABSOLUTE DRAMA of Uber claiming they're using "artificial intelligence" when they're literally just checking *if drunk_time == true && location == bar && app_fumbling > 30sec*. I. CAN'T. EVEN. 🙄 The tech industry's relationship with the term "AI" is more toxic than my ex's Instagram stories. Just because you can write an if-statement doesn't mean you've created HAL 9000, DARLING!

The tech industry's obsession with AI in a nutshell. Companies rebrand basic algorithms as "AI" while VCs throw money at anything with those two magical letters. Meanwhile, developers watching from the sidelines know it's just another overhyped technology that'll eventually join blockchain and NFTs in the graveyard of "revolutionary paradigm shifts." The corporate world can't tell the difference because they're too busy adding "AI-powered" to their pitch decks to secure that sweet, sweet funding.