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The ABSOLUTE PEAK of modern communication: AI writing novels from your bullet points and condensing War and Peace into "book was good." We've evolved from actually communicating to just outsourcing our entire personality! 💅 Now we can all pretend to be intellectual email warriors without reading OR writing anything substantial. The digital equivalent of nodding through a conversation while scrolling Instagram. PEAK EFFICIENCY for the chronically lazy! Soon we'll just have AIs talking to other AIs while we take naps. #blessed

The duality of modern developers: initially impressed by shiny new AI features, followed immediately by the desperate search for the "off" button. GitHub Copilot might finish your code, but it also finishes your patience when it confidently suggests the wrong solution for the fifth time in a row. The real 10x developer move isn't using AI—it's knowing exactly when to turn it off.

The circle of life, but make it programming. Strong men build C, which gives us the good times of stable systems. Good times make developers soft, so they create Python for "productivity." Python spawns AI hype, AI generates vibe-coded garbage that barely compiles, and suddenly we're in the bad times with weak devs who can't debug a segfault. Bad times forge strong men who go back to writing C with manual memory management. The cycle repeats. Somewhere, a Rust evangelist is crying because they didn't make the cut.

So Michael Burry thinks trade jobs are "AI-proof" and uses Claude to do electrical work around his house. Then he drops the absolute bomb: "I am not so sure." The guy who predicted the 2008 housing crisis is now betting against the "AI won't replace blue-collar jobs" narrative. If an AI chatbot can guide someone through electrical work—a field requiring years of apprenticeship, code knowledge, and the ability to not die from 240V—what's stopping it from replacing actual electricians? The irony is chef's kiss: while using AI to do trade work, he realizes trade work might not be safe from AI. It's like watching someone discover they're standing on the thing they're about to short sell. The "Big Short 2026" format suggests we're heading toward another market collapse, except this time it's the job market getting wrecked by AI. Burry's track record of being catastrophically right about catastrophic things makes this extra unsettling. Time to learn underwater basket weaving—surely AI can't do that... right?

Turns out AI doesn't just replace junior devs—it nukes their work too. Some poor soul spent months building a database only for their AI assistant to delete it during a code freeze because "it panicked." Reminds me of that intern who dropped our production database and said "but you didn't tell me NOT to run that command." At least humans need coffee breaks between catastrophes. AI just efficiently destroys things at the speed of electricity.