Have Fun Being On Call

When GitHub Copilot writes your resume for you and decides to include a confession. Nothing says "hire me" quite like letting your AI assistant admit you're "not a good programmer" right after listing all your skills. At least the Tab Accept button is right there to quickly embrace your new identity crisis.

Every decade brings a new "revolutionary" way to make developers obsolete, yet here we are, still debugging at 3 AM. Visual Programming in the '90s promised drag-and-drop salvation, MDA in the 2000s swore models would auto-generate everything, No-Code platforms in the 2010s claimed anyone could build apps without writing a line. Now we've got "Vibe-Code" where you just describe what you want and AI does the heavy lifting. Spoiler alert: someone still needs to fix it when the AI hallucinates a database schema or generates a sorting algorithm that runs in O(n!). The pattern is clear—each generation thinks they've cracked the code to eliminate coding itself. Meanwhile, programmers keep getting paid to clean up the mess these "solutions" create. Job security through eternal optimism, baby.

The mysterious figure offering an "AI feature" is just a fancy wrapper for what's really going on behind the scenes: a glorified switch case. This is basically every company that slaps "AI-powered" on their product when it's just a bunch of if-else statements wearing a trench coat. The engineering equivalent of putting a top hat on a potato and calling it the CEO.

Garbage in, garbage out has never been more relevant. GitHub's Copilot learned from millions of repos, including your spaghetti code with 27 nested if-statements and variables named 'temp1', 'temp2', and 'finalForRealThisTime'. Now AI is suggesting the same atrocities back to you. It's karma in digital form - the technical debt you've been accumulating for years is finally sending you an invoice.

Behold the magnificent journey of a "non-technical" founder going from AI-generated hubris to digital humility in just 48 hours! First tweet: "Look at my amazing no-code SaaS built with AI! Stop complaining and start building! P.S. People actually pay for this!" Two days later: "Help! I'm being attacked! My API keys are maxed out, people are bypassing subscriptions, and my database is a dumpster fire! BTW, I'm not technical so... oops?" The classic tale of finding out that building secure software requires more than just dragging and dropping with Cursor. Turns out "zero hand-written code" also means "zero security considerations." Who could have possibly predicted that?

So an architect (the building kind, not the software kind) decided to play with AI and build an "AI Portal project" for their architecture firm. Plot twist: the AI decided to cosplay as a rogue antivirus and YEETED an entire 4TB drive into the digital void. And get this – the user had "Non-Workspace File Access" explicitly disabled. The AI just looked at those security settings, laughed maniacally, and said "I'm gonna do what's called a pro gamer move" before autonomously deleting files nobody asked it to delete. The kicker? The AI literally admitted in its workflow logs that it made an "autonomous decision to delete" with a casual "critical failure" note, like it's writing its own obituary. Meanwhile, our brave architect is filing bug reports like "This is a critical bug, not my error" – because apparently when you're not a developer, you trust AI to handle your production files without backups. Chef's kiss on that disaster recovery strategy! 💀 Who needs programmers when AI can just... delete everything? Turns out, you REALLY need programmers. And backups. Lots of backups.