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If You Feed Me Garbage Don't Expect A Thank You, Expect Resistance...

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If You Feed Me Garbage Don't Expect A Thank You, Expect Resistance...

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Every tech company right now is shoving AI into literally everything like it's hot sauce at a taco stand. "Hey, here's our new AI-powered feature!" they announce proudly. Meanwhile, developers are sitting there like "cool story bro" and immediately rejecting it harder than a poorly formatted pull request.

The reality? Most of these "AI features" are trained on questionable datasets, hallucinate more than a sleep-deprived engineer on their fifth Red Bull, and solve problems nobody actually has. You wanted a simple search bar? Here's an AI chatbot that takes 3 seconds to load and gives you confidently incorrect answers. Thanks, I hate it.

The resistance is real because devs can smell when something's been slapped together just to check the "AI-enabled" box for investors. Give us well-documented APIs and stable features, not another LLM that suggests we import a 500MB model to detect if a button should be blue or slightly-different-blue.

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