I Don't Want To Play This Game Anymore

The tech industry's current obsession with slapping AI onto products is perfectly captured here. Some poor developer expressing their hatred for AI is immediately surrounded by corporate goons wielding their "tasty AI integration" like it's the solution to everything. Meanwhile, the developer's reaching for what appears to be a shotgun - because sometimes turning it off and on again just isn't enough of a fix. The real innovation would be a product that doesn't mention AI at all.

The AI hype train has left the station and everything's suddenly a "vibe" now. LLMs? Vibe. Image generators? Vibe. Neural networks? Big vibe energy. Meanwhile, developers are just nodding along in meetings, terrified to admit they have no idea why marketing keeps calling their REST API a "conversational vibe interface." Too late to ask now. Just smile and pretend you've been vibing all along.

The second you mention you're learning to code, every relative suddenly transforms into Usain Bolt chasing you down with AI course recommendations. Nothing says "supportive family" like implying your freshly-learned print("Hello World") is already obsolete before you've even figured out how loops work. The programming journey: 10% learning syntax, 90% sprinting away from people telling you that what you're learning is already outdated. Pro tip: develop selective hearing - it's the most valuable skill in your coding toolkit.

Content Your first podcast will be awful Your first video will be awful Your first article will be awful Your first art will be awful Your first photo will be awful Your first game will be awful But your first code will be perfect. Zero bugs and a very clean code. It will be "Hello World" Me: ››> Print ("Hellow World!") Traceback (most recent call last): File " ", line 1, in Print ("Hellow World!") NameError: name 'Print' is not defined >›>

The eternal developer dilemma of our times! Stack Overflow: where your innocent question gets obliterated with "YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY WRONG" by someone with 500k reputation who's been coding since FORTRAN was cool. Meanwhile, ChatGPT is over there like "YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY RIGHT" even when you ask if you can solve P=NP with a for loop. The validation we crave vs. the validation we deserve. The digital equivalent of asking your strict professor versus asking your supportive grandma who thinks everything you do is brilliant. Honestly, sometimes being told you're right—even when your code is a flaming dumpster fire—just hits different.