I Am Nothing Without AI

Ah, the classic "tell us about your AI tools" question. The perfect trap for developers who've been using ChatGPT to write 90% of their code for the last year. Do I admit I outsource my brain to silicon, or pretend I still remember how loops work? It's like asking a chef if they use pre-minced garlic. We all do it, but nobody wants to be the first to confess in the interview.

The future of software development just got flipped upside down! Someone's bragging about an "open-source" project where an LLM wrote 100% of the code, and another dev hits back with the perfect mic drop: "code is cheap, show me the talk." It's the 2025 version of "talk is cheap, show me the code" – but in our AI-saturated future, the valuable part isn't the code anymore (any model can spit that out), it's the human reasoning, design decisions, and architectural thinking behind it. The real engineering is now in the prompts. We've gone full circle – from documentation being an afterthought to becoming the actual product!

Ah yes, the revolutionary AI integration strategy: squirting a tiny bit of machine learning onto a bar of legacy code and calling it "innovation." That soap dispenser is working exactly as intended – technically dispensing something, but completely missing the point. Just like how adding a chatbot that can only say "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" somehow justifies a 20% price increase. Investors impressed, users unimpressed, developers wondering if they should update their resume.

The evolution of developer workflow in the AI era has officially reached its final form. No longer satisfied with merely coding or debugging, we've graduated to the elite practice of begging our AI overlords to fix our catastrophic mistakes. That desperate "please undo everything I just did" message to Codebase while the AI silently judges your life choices is the true modern development experience. Remember when we thought Stack Overflow copy-paste was the peak of programming? Those were simpler times.

THE SWEET, SWEET LIBERATION! 😭 Developers everywhere are WEEPING TEARS OF JOY now that AI has swooped in like some coding superhero to murder our toxic relationship with StackOverflow! No more getting absolutely DESTROYED for asking why your code isn't working! No more comments like "This question was asked in 1874, do your research!" No more downvotes because you forgot a semicolon! It's like being released from programming prison where the guards were all people with 500k reputation points who judged your will to live based on your question formatting. FREEDOM AT LAST!

Remember when we actually had to memorize algorithms and syntax? Now my brain's shrinking faster than my will to whiteboard during interviews. The top image shows Homer Simpson's brain scan before ChatGPT, all plump and functional. The bottom shows what's left after outsourcing our thinking to AI - just enough neurons to type "write me a function that..." and hit enter. Evolution in reverse, folks - soon we'll just be fingers attached to a coffee mug.