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Anthropic drops a billion on Bum (probably some AI startup or acqui-hire), meanwhile someone just casually hits that fork button on GitHub and gets the exact same codebase for the low, low price of absolutely nothing. Open source licensing is basically the ultimate "right-click, save as" for entire companies. The best part? They're both technically legal moves. One guy's burning VC money like it's going out of style, the other's just... using git as intended. That's the beauty and chaos of open source—your billion-dollar acquisition is literally one git clone away from being commoditized.

Running from the AI hype tribe like Jack Sparrow fleeing cannibals. Every standup these days: "We should integrate ChatGPT into our workflow!" Meanwhile, you're just trying to write clean code without buzzword-driven development consuming your sprint. The real treasure isn't some half-baked AI integration—it's maintainable code that won't summon future developers to hunt you down with pitchforks. Resistance isn't futile, it's sanity preservation.

When Cloudflare goes down, the internet basically ceases to exist. So what's a desperate dev to do when they can't access their AI chatbot girlfriend? Apparently resort to doing matrix multiplication by hand on paper like some kind of mathematical caveman. The desperation has reached new, sad heights. Next they'll be writing love letters in binary and folding them into paper airplanes.

The corporate AI revolution in a nutshell! Management is gently cradling their precious ML/AI initiatives while the dev teams are just another bird in the hand. Classic case of "let's sprinkle some machine learning on everything" syndrome where leadership falls in love with buzzwords before understanding implementation realities. Meanwhile, the actual developers who have to integrate this stuff into legacy codebases are treated with the same enthusiasm as that other bird. The tender loving care disparity is just *chef's kiss* perfect.

Gambling addiction 🤝 AI prompt engineering The perfect comparison doesn't exi— Oh wait, here it is! Throwing money at slot machines and AI tokens while convincing yourself "this time it'll work" is basically the same dopamine-fueled delusion. The cursor always wins because you'll keep typing prompts until your fingers bleed, just like grandma at the penny slots. Both leave you broke with nothing but false hope and the crushing realization that the house (or OpenAI's billing department) is the only real winner here.

Google Gemini just gave the most "random" string in the history of random strings. Nothing says "I'm definitely not using a pattern" like literally using the alphabet followed by sequential numbers. That's like asking for a random password and getting "password123". Next they'll tell us their favorite dice roll is always 3.5.