Google's Corporate Evolution: From Ethics To Killbots

The evolution of getting help as a developer! First we had Reddit calling our questions "stupid," then Stack Overflow dismissing everything as "off-topic," and now ChatGPT responding with "that's a very good question" to even the most ridiculous requests like "how to prevent screenshots of my website." Finally, a digital assistant that doesn't make us feel like complete idiots for not knowing something! It's the therapy we never knew we needed after years of Stack Overflow PTSD. Breaking generational trauma one suspiciously positive response at a time.

The classic "ChatGPT will make me rich" delusion meets reality. Someone asks their AI overlord to generate a million-dollar app with zero bugs, and you can practically see the existential crisis unfolding in real-time as they realize the output is... less than stellar. The contradiction is chef's kiss: "make me an app that makes $1M/month" + "don't make any mistakes" = asking AI to solve problems that actual billion-dollar companies with armies of engineers still can't crack. Meanwhile, ChatGPT probably just generated a todo list app with hardcoded credentials and SQL injection vulnerabilities. If getting rich was as easy as typing a prompt, we'd all be retired on a beach somewhere instead of debugging production at 3 AM. But hey, at least the AI-generated code compiles... sometimes.

Someone needs to tell Elon about the exponential growth of node_modules folders. While AI might be growing fast, any JavaScript developer knows the true speed champion is watching your disk space vanish as soon as you run npm install . That 5MB project somehow needs 500MB of dependencies, and God help you if you're on a slow internet connection. The real technological singularity isn't AI - it's when a single node_modules folder finally consumes all available storage on Earth.

The modern developer's ark is a bizarre menagerie of code Frankenstein'd together from various sources. Up top, we've got the majestic AI tools (Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT) and the trusty GitHub repos we "borrow" from, plus those YouTube tutorials we frantically search at 2PM when nothing works. But when the client shows up? Suddenly we're presenting some unholy chimera of code that barely functions but somehow ships. The client's reaction is universal: "What the hell is this?" while we stand there pretending this abomination was our plan all along. The greatest skill in modern development isn't writing code—it's explaining why your code looks like it was written by five different people with conflicting goals... because it was.

The modern "full stack" - three AI tabs open in your browser while you pretend to know what you're doing. Remember when being full stack meant actually knowing multiple languages and frameworks? Now it's just knowing which AI to ask for which problem. "Yes, I'm proficient in Claude, ChatGPT, and Perplexity" should be the new line on resumes. The only stack that matters is the stack of browser tabs helping you fake your way through that ticket your PM swore was "just a small change."

Nothing says "career optimization" quite like spending your entire youth mastering skills that become obsolete the moment ChatGPT learns to write a for-loop. The education system really nailed that return on investment. Somewhere, a CS professor is updating their syllabus to include "How to Convince AI You're Still Useful 101."