How The Tables Have Turned

The programmer's journey to enlightenment, visualized as expanding brain memes. Starting with the lazy "just ask ChatGPT" approach, then graduating to StackOverflow searches (the industry standard). But true galaxy brains dig deeper—from ancient forum threads to dusty textbooks to ISO standards documents. And for those problems that make you question reality itself? Track down the language creator's hometown for clues, or the nuclear option—talk to his mom. "Yes Mrs. Stroustrup, your son's multiple inheritance implementation is giving me nightmares again." The irony? We've all done the bottom one at 3am when nothing else works. Desperation breeds creativity.

Ah, the classic "I'll just install this cool new tool" saga that ends with your entire workflow in shambles. Cursor (an AI coding assistant) decided it wasn't content being just another app—it wanted to be THE app by hijacking the sacred 'code' command. This is why we can't have nice things in tech. Some product manager somewhere thought, "You know what developers would love? If we silently changed their muscle memory commands without asking!" Ten years of typing the same command, and suddenly you're launching the wrong app because some DevEx team decided their tool deserves keyboard shortcut supremacy. The real kicker is the "No prompt. No warning. Just broken flow." That's developer tool installation in its purest form—surprise chaos with a side of productivity loss. Always read the install scripts, kids. DevEx might be in the details, but so is the devil.

Ah, the classic "stepped in AI-generated SQL" moment! Every developer's nightmare when they look down and realize they've been walking through code that was auto-magically created by an AI. That sinking feeling when you discover your database is about to be obliterated by queries that technically work but are about as elegant as a drunk elephant trying to perform ballet. The AI confidently generated perfect syntactical garbage that'll run flawlessly while bringing your production server to its knees. It's like having a helpful assistant who organizes your closet by setting everything on fire. "But it compiled without errors!" 🔥

LinkedIn has become the wild west of tech inspiration porn. One side: self-proclaimed "thought leaders" posting their daily shower epiphanies. The other side: AI-generated wisdom complete with random butterfly emojis and strategic typos for authenticity. Meanwhile, actual engineers are scrolling through this circus while debugging production issues, wondering if they missed the memo on butterfly emojis being the secret to 10x productivity.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute PEAK of startup innovation right here! 🙄 Some genius had the REVOLUTIONARY idea to... *dramatic pause*... make API calls to OpenAI. That's it. That's the entire business model! While everyone else is trying to be the "New Facebook" or "New Snapchat," this visionary is basically saying "let's be the middleman for technology that already exists and charge for it!" It's like opening a store that sells... trips to the actual store. THE AUDACITY! THE VISION! Silicon Valley investors are probably THROWING their money at this groundbreaking concept as we speak! Next week's brilliant startup: "We click buttons for you!"

Finally, a sorting algorithm with the computational complexity of O($$). Just send your array to GPT, pay a few cents, and get it back sorted. Perfect for when you need your data arranged but can't be bothered to remember how quicksort works. The best part? If your array isn't sorted correctly, you can just claim it's because the AI "didn't understand the vibe" of your integers.