Junior Prompt Engineering

Modern programming has evolved from rigid methodologies to whatever fever dream this is. Left side: someone asking about "vibe coding" like it's an actual paradigm. Middle: a developer who learned SOLID principles from anime examples instead of textbooks and somehow still functions. Right side: the enlightened one who's given up on architecture entirely because "AI will handle it." The three horsemen of the coding apocalypse. For those wondering, SOLID is actually a set of object-oriented design principles (Single responsibility, Open-closed, Liskov substitution, Interface segregation, Dependency inversion). But sure, explain it with anime characters. That'll stick.

SOMEONE PLEASE REVOKE THIS MAN'S DEVELOPER LICENSE IMMEDIATELY! 🚨 This tweet is the programming equivalent of saying "a hammer is just an API to nails" and "nails are an API to wood" and "wood is an API to trees." MAKE IT STOP! An API (Application Programming Interface) is a specific set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other - NOT this cosmic tech ladder to the universe! The only thing this tweet proves is that if you string enough technical words together, you can sound profound while being CATASTROPHICALLY wrong. It's giving "I just discovered programming last week and now I'm having deep thoughts" energy.

The classic programmer's dilemma! When your university teacher announces they'll teach Python for OpenCV because "most students don't know it," but you're standing there with 8 years of experience facing two equally painful paths: either pretend you're learning everything from scratch (boring castle on the left) or flex your skills by showing off some absolutely demonic code that'll make your professor question their career choices (haunted lightning castle on the right). The fork in the road represents that moment of decision every experienced dev faces in intro classes - do I play it safe or do I unleash chaos? Spoiler alert: we always choose chaos.

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The classic technical debt has come due! Our protagonist spent 1.5 years building a house of cards with ChatGPT as the foundation. Now they're facing a monitored VM environment where their AI lifeline is severed, and they've got 21 hours to learn what they should've spent 1.5 years studying. This is like trying to cram for a swimming test after pretending to be Michael Phelps while secretly using floaties. The controlled environment is the ultimate "runtime error" for someone who's been copy-pasting their way through education! The irony is delicious - they've been training an AI to code instead of training themselves. Now they're contemplating risking academic dishonesty or cramming an entire Java curriculum overnight. Talk about a self-inflicted NullPointerException to their career!

The true superpower of developers isn't writing code—it's surviving vendor hell. While everyone's panicking about AI taking our jobs, they're forgetting the eternal constant of tech: third-party vendors with documentation that's either fantasy fiction or written by someone who never used their own product. Those five desperate emails you sent last week? Still unread. That support ticket from last month? "Under investigation." Meanwhile your PM is wondering why that "simple integration" is taking so long. Good luck replacing us with AI when even humans can't figure out what the hell your API is supposed to do.