I Hate Fucking Fallbacks

The five stages of beginner developer delusion, perfectly captured in skeletal form. It starts with innocent enthusiasm, quickly escalates to "I'm learning React to learn JavaScript" (which is like saying "I'm learning to fly a Boeing 747 to understand gravity"), then rapidly descends into the fever dream of building Netflix clones with ChatGPT after 72 hours of coding. By stage four, our protagonist is planning an AI SaaS empire after a week of copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers. The final transformation into a complete skeleton represents the ultimate delusion: dropping engineering college for a bootcamp that "guarantees" job offers. Senior developers watching this evolution: *sips coffee in traumatized silence*

Behold, the final form of tech recruitment marketing! Some poor soul manually grinding LeetCode problems with a frowny face, checkmarks for "Shitty job," "No money," and "No girlfriend" versus the mythical "Chad" who outsources his algorithmic suffering to an AI tool and magically acquires a "FAANG job," "$600k total comp," and "Two girlfriends." Because clearly, the only thing standing between you and beach-lounging with multiple romantic partners is... *checks notes*... not solving merge sort by hand? The desperation in this ad is so thick you could debug it with a breakpoint.

The modern developer dichotomy in its full glory! Up top we've got the polished, well-groomed developers who just copy-paste from Stack Overflow, Google search results, and ask ChatGPT to fix their bugs. Meanwhile, the documentation readers below look like they've been coding for 72 hours straight, sustained purely by Monster Energy and sheer determination. Reading docs is apparently the programming equivalent of staring into the void until the void stares back. The best part? Those documentation demons probably write better code than the rest of us combined. Choose your fighter: pretty but dependent, or unhinged but powerful.

Ah, the ultimate showdown between nature and technology! Both parrots and ML algorithms babble nonsensical phrases they don't understand, but only one comes in a cute feathery package. Billion-dollar AI companies frantically trying to replicate what evolution perfected millions of years ago, and still can't match the "is adorable" checkbox. Maybe we should just train parrots to write our code instead of spending all that GPU money? At least when a parrot crashes, it just loses a few feathers instead of your entire production database.

GitHub Copilot looking down at C and C++ developers with fake sympathy while they continue to manually manage memory like it's 1972! The absolute AUDACITY of AI to pity us mere mortals who still allocate and free our own bytes like barbarians! Meanwhile, C++ devs are just there with their pointers and manual garbage collection, completely unbothered by the AI revolution, too busy fighting with segmentation faults to even notice they're being condescended to. The relationship between cutting-edge AI and old-school programming is giving me SERIOUS trust fund kid meets blue-collar worker vibes!

When you ask an AI to fix your CSS z-index issue and wake up to find your entire website has vanished into the void. Classic sledgehammer approach to fixing a thumbtack problem! The z-index is technically no longer causing issues if there's nothing left to display. Zero elements = zero stacking context conflicts. Task failed successfully! For the uninitiated: z-index controls the stacking order of elements on a webpage (which appears on top of what). Fixing it usually requires a small CSS tweak, not nuclear annihilation of the entire UI.