Double Standards In Tech Recruitment

Ah yes, another AI researcher predicting our imminent extinction. Because that's exactly what happened when calculators replaced mathematicians and spell-check eliminated writers. The best part is the comparison to compiler output. Sure, because blindly trusting AI-generated code without review is exactly like trusting battle-tested compilers with decades of development behind them. Completely equivalent! Don't worry though - by 2026 we'll all be unemployed, but at least we'll have plenty of time to fix the bugs in the AI-generated systems that control our power grids and banking systems. Progress!

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The secret sauce to startup valuation in 2024: change your loading spinners to "thinking..." and boom — you're an AI company! Venture capitalists are frantically throwing term sheets at anyone who can make their app pretend to contemplate existence. The best part? The code behind it is still the same janky setTimeout() that's been crashing in production since 2018. But hey, fake it till you make it a unicorn, right?

Whether your spaghetti code was crafted by human hands or generated by the latest AI model, it all leads to the same destination: Terrible Code Highway . The cow staring at both paths represents that poor junior dev who has to maintain the codebase, blissfully unaware that no matter which path they choose, they'll still be debugging someone else's mess until 2AM. The real engineering skill is pretending you have a choice in the matter.

The eternal struggle with AI coding assistants! That moment when you're desperately trying to avoid Copilot's "helpful" suggestions because you know they'll introduce six new bugs that'll crash your entire project. It's like having a well-meaning but chaotic intern who keeps trying to "fix" your code while you physically try to block their keyboard access. The hands hovering defensively over the keyboard perfectly capture that "please stop helping me" energy every developer has felt when an AI decides to "optimize" perfectly functional code.

OH. MY. GOD. The difference is SENDING ME! 💀 Left side: AI code looking like it's applying for a PhD with its perfectly commented, meticulously structured, memory-checking perfection. Like that one friend who color-coordinates their closet AND alphabetizes their spice rack. Right side: Human programmer's chaotic masterpiece with its cryptic "TODO: More chars" (which will stay there until the heat death of the universe), random variable names, and that absolutely unhinged nested loop that's probably printing ASCII art of their ex's face or something. The true signature of human code isn't elegance—it's the beautiful disaster that somehow still works despite looking like it was written during a caffeine-induced hallucination!