Just Give It 6 To 12 Months

The duality of developer existence, captured in Shiba Inu form. On the left, we have the battle-hardened veteran—muscular, imposing, and completely unimpressed by technology that can't handle basic functionality. Meanwhile, the right side shows the innocent newcomer, blissfully celebrating an AI-generated website that probably has the structural integrity of a house of cards in a hurricane. The experienced dev knows that "generated in 5 minutes" means "will cause 5 months of debugging." The circle of life continues.

Just sitting back with my popcorn watching the AI hype train derail in slow motion. All these devs who pivoted their entire careers to "prompt engineering" are about to discover what us old-timers already know - there's no shortcut to understanding the fundamentals. When the hallucinations pile up and the VC money dries out, guess who'll be debugging the mess? The same people who've been writing actual code for decades. Munching carrots while watching careers burn is my new hobby.

The classic tale of telling someone to "learn to code" when their industry collapses, only to have it spectacularly backfire a decade later. In 2014, some smug tech bro sees a factory worker lamenting their shutdown plant and suggests coding as the magical solution to all life's problems. Fast forward to 2024, and that same person is having an absolute meltdown because AI just automated away their programming job. The irony is *chef's kiss*. The real kicker? The factory worker pivoted to welding and is now probably making bank while our former programmer is spiraling. Turns out physical trades that require hands-on skills are way harder to automate than pushing pixels around. Who would've thought that condescending career advice would age like milk in the sun?

Jensen Huang having his "Skinner moment" here. DLSS 5 rolls out and gamers collectively go "yeah this looks like AI-generated mush," but instead of acknowledging that maybe pushing frame generation to its absolute limits produces visual artifacts that would make a JPEG from 2003 jealous, Jensen's like "surely it's the children who are wrong." The tech is impressive on paper—AI upscaling, frame generation, the whole nine yards. But when you're generating 7 out of every 8 frames from thin air and the result looks like you're gaming through Vaseline, maybe the feedback isn't about poor communication. Maybe it's about poor results. But hey, what do gamers know about visual quality? They're just the ones staring at it for hours.

Remember when we argued about text editors like they were sports teams? Now we're just watching AI companies slap version numbers on VS Code forks like they're NFTs. "My VS Code fork has more digits than yours" is the new "my dad can beat up your dad." Meanwhile, Emacs users are still configuring their first keystroke from 1976.

The telltale signs of AI assistance in your codebase are always there if you know where to look. Someone claims "Claude has been here," and the evidence? That cursed FINAL_SUMMARY.md file sitting in your repo root. It's like finding footprints in the snow - AI assistants and their weird habit of generating summary files nobody asked for. Eight PRs later and you're still finding random markdown files with perfect documentation that nobody on your team is skilled enough to have written.