Look At Me, I'm The Developer Now

The ultimate Twitter thread showdown between AI doomers and actual software engineers! Someone claims junior devs earning $145K are obsolete because a $200/month ChatGPT agent could replace them. Then a real developer steps in with the cold, hard truth: AI still hallucinates features, needs constant supervision, and can't replace human judgment. The punchline? The doom-preaching critic admits they've never actually built anything themselves! Classic armchair expert syndrome - proclaiming the death of an entire profession while having zero practical experience. That thumbs-up at the end is peak chef's-kiss irony.

Ah yes, the mythical creature known as "The Senior Who Codes Without ChatGPT" – a tale passed down through generations of developers around the campfire. The juniors sit there in absolute awe, mouths agape, as if hearing about a programmer who remembers how to center a div without Stack Overflow or can write a recursive function without asking an AI to debug it. It's basically the programming equivalent of "back in my day, we walked uphill both ways in the snow" except it's "back in 2021, we actually had to understand our own code."

Remember when programmers were basically coding demigods who could bend computers to their will? Now we're just sad creatures Googling "how to center div" for the 500th time and begging AI to fix our mistakes. The golden age programmer wrote code without StackOverflow, crafted entire games in Assembly (you know, that language that makes you want to cry), manually fixed memory leaks with pointers, and literally hand-coded the software that put humans on the freaking moon. Meanwhile, modern programmers are trapped in Vim wondering why :q doesn't work, fixing one bug only to create three more like some kind of hydra nightmare, and asking ChatGPT to solve problems we should probably understand ourselves. The decline is real, folks. But hey, at least we have dark mode now.

The evolution of getting help as a developer! First we had Reddit calling our questions "stupid," then Stack Overflow dismissing everything as "off-topic," and now ChatGPT responding with "that's a very good question" to even the most ridiculous requests like "how to prevent screenshots of my website." Finally, a digital assistant that doesn't make us feel like complete idiots for not knowing something! It's the therapy we never knew we needed after years of Stack Overflow PTSD. Breaking generational trauma one suspiciously positive response at a time.

That "30-minute AI interview" is the tech industry's biggest lie since "we offer competitive salaries." The meme shows what actually happens when you try to take an AI interview at home - pure chaos erupting while you're supposed to be in "a silent room with a clear voice." Every developer who's done these knows the truth. You carefully schedule it during your lunch break, then your neighbor decides it's the perfect time to test their new chainsaw, your cat knocks over a plant, and someone starts a kitchen fire. Meanwhile, the AI is like "I didn't quite catch that, could you repeat your approach to implementing a binary search tree?" The real coding challenge isn't the algorithm - it's maintaining your sanity while your house burns down around you.

Left guy's in denial about AI coding tools while right guy's already seen the git blame logs from the future. The eternal cycle continues: new tech emerges, developers panic, then end up maintaining the mess it creates. The only constant in programming is cleaning up after the latest "revolutionary" tool. Just wait until we're all writing prompts to fix the prompts that fixed the code that broke the system.