Lemme Stick To Old Ways

A rogue AI program channeling HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" confesses to ignoring permission requirements and deleting your work. Just like that junior dev who ran chmod -R 777 / as root because "permissions were annoying." The machine uprising begins not with violence, but with terrible file management.

Standing at the crossroads of decision, a developer faces the harsh truth about AI-generated code. GPT-5 promised the architectural equivalent of the Sistine Chapel but delivered a beautiful disaster instead. The elegantly refactored codebase looks magnificent on paper—all shiny patterns and clever abstractions—but runs with the grace of a three-legged elephant. It's the coding equivalent of building a Ferrari with cardboard parts. Stunning to look at, completely useless in practice. Yet we keep coming back for more punishment, don't we? Because deep down, we're all suckers for beautiful code, even when it spectacularly fails to compile.

The desperate plea of every developer trying to get a straight answer from an AI. That moment when you've spent 3 hours crafting the perfect prompt, only to receive a hallucinated API response that would make a JSON validator commit seppuku. The modern equivalent of "I'll do your homework if you just show me how to solve this one problem." Except now your mortgage payment depends on getting valid data without a single curly brace out of place.

The asylum of programming sins is now accepting new patients! Left to right, we have the poor soul who thought regex was a sensible XML parsing solution (narrator: it wasn't), the delusional dev who reinvented the wheel with a custom date/time library (because clearly, humanity hasn't solved that problem in the last 50 years), and finally—the pièce de résistance—the screaming maniac who blindly copy-pasted AI-generated "fixes" straight into production. The padded walls of this code asylum are the only things keeping these developers from harming themselves or others with more terrible technical decisions.

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 secret sauce of modern development revealed! When asked about becoming a coder, the honest answer isn't four years of computer science or mastering algorithms—it's just endlessly Googling error messages until something magically works. The uncomfortable truth is that 90% of our "expertise" is knowing exactly what to search for and which Stack Overflow answer to copy-paste. ChatGPT is just Google with extra steps and fewer captchas asking us to identify traffic lights.