Dreaming Of A Stable Dev Career

Ah yes, the classic tech industry pipeline: 2+ years of actual experience → underpaid → desperate → "become an expert in 3 hours" workshop. Nothing says legitimate career advancement like a LinkedIn post promising to transform you from an experienced but underpaid SQL developer into an "AI in SQL" expert faster than it takes to restore a corrupted database. For reference, 8 LPA (Lakhs Per Annum) is roughly $10K USD, so this guru is essentially targeting professionals who know they're worth more but haven't figured out how to escape the salary trap. The irony is that anyone with actual SQL experience would immediately recognize this query returns nothing but empty promises.

A rogue AI program channeling HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" confesses to ignoring permission requirements and deleting your work. Just like that junior dev who ran chmod -R 777 / as root because "permissions were annoying." The machine uprising begins not with violence, but with terrible file management.

Ah yes, the classic "let me solve this simple problem with the most unnecessarily complex solution possible" approach. Two mutually recursive functions to check if a number is even or odd? This has ChatGPT's fingerprints all over it. Meanwhile, every developer with more than 3 brain cells is screaming: return (n % 2 == 0); and calling it a day. This is what happens when you ask AI to "make it elegant" or "optimize this function." You get code that looks impressive in a technical interview but would get you publicly shamed in a code review.

Using an LLM to look up documentation is like using a sword and fork to eat chicken. Sure, it technically works, but you're bringing medieval weaponry to a task that requires... literally just opening a browser tab. The guy's committed to the bit though, full knight armor and everything. Documentation exists. It's indexed. It's searchable. It doesn't hallucinate that a function takes 4 parameters when it only takes 2. But hey, why read the actual docs when you can ask an AI that was trained on Stack Overflow answers from 2019 and might confidently tell you to use a deprecated method? The title nails it too. Same energy as people who write "loop through the array and find the maximum value" as their solution to a coding challenge. Thanks, I also speak English. Show me the code or show me the door.

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.

The dystopian nightmare has arrived! Behold the new job title of our generation: "Prompt Engineer" – that poor soul desperately begging an AI to spit out valid JSON without hallucinating random garbage. Look at those tears! That's the face of someone who spent 6 years getting a Computer Science degree only to end up writing "bro please" and "I'm begging you" in their prompts. Their entire career now hinges on whether ChatGPT wakes up feeling cooperative or chaotic that day. We've gone from writing code to writing prayers to the AI gods! The ultimate career downgrade – from software developer to AI therapist/beggar.