Irreplaceable Skills

Started coding a "simple hash function" and GitHub Copilot went full existential crisis mode. Started reasonable with "not cryptographically secure, but fast" then spiraled into "not guaranteed to be stable across different phases of the moon" and "different parallel universes." This is what happens when your AI assistant has seen one too many 3 AM debugging sessions. Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a neural network is clearly having PTSD flashbacks from training on StackOverflow comments.

Oh honey, you thought customer service "Ankur" was a real person? PLOT TWIST! The moment they asked for a React component, our "totally human" friend spat out an ENTIRE todo list app faster than I can say "suspicious"! 💅 That's not just any code vomit - it's a perfectly formatted React component with useState hooks, task management functions, and styled components ALL IN ONE MESSAGE. Because nothing screams "I'm flesh and blood" like regurgitating 30 lines of JSX without breaking a sweat! The betrayal! The drama! The syntax highlighting!

Behold the great decline of our noble profession. We went from muscle-bound legends who wrote code without AI crutches and built entire games in Assembly (because apparently pain is character-building) to modern keyboard jockeys who can't center a div without consulting Google for the 47th time today. The golden age programmer fixed memory leaks by hand, while we're over here begging ChatGPT to fix our syntax errors like it's our personal code therapist. And let's not forget the programmer trapped in Vim since 2018 because :q! is apparently harder to remember than differential calculus. The final insult? We fix one bug and create three more. It's not a development cycle, it's a pyramid scheme.

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute CHAOS of AI ambiguity in 2023! 😱 Developer dude casually drops "I let AI write the code for that feature" and his colleague immediately jumps to the conclusion he's using some mystical "vibe coding" technique. PLOT TWIST! He's just talking about their human colleague named Ai Tachikawa! The audacity of having a normal Japanese name in this ChatGPT-obsessed hellscape! This is what happens when the term "AI" gets so overused that we forget actual humans named Ai exist! The secondhand embarrassment is PHYSICALLY PAINFUL right now!

Corporate tech in a nutshell. Some executive burns through millions on AI "innovations" that are basically expensive tech demos destined for the graveyard. Meanwhile, the kid who'll inherit this mess someday is already recognizing the corporate cycle of wasted resources. The real kicker? Those hundreds of proof-of-concepts probably could've been one solid product if someone had just said "no" to the next shiny AI buzzword. But that wouldn't look good on the quarterly innovation report, would it?

Left panel: Just innocently using "vibe" to describe that sweet mental state where the code flows through your fingers like butter through a hot knife. Right panel: Suddenly realizing everyone thinks you're just copying AI responses because "vibe coding" has become internet slang for "I asked ChatGPT to write this for me." The flow state and AI accusations - two sides of the same monkey.