My Life With Management

The time traveler has been spotted! ChatGPT launched in 2022, but apparently Courage was the beta tester back in '96. That old computer wasn't running Python or JavaScript—it was running pure anxiety. The irony of a "cowardly" dog secretly being the first AI prompt engineer is just *chef's kiss*. Developers today think they're revolutionary for asking an AI to write their regex, meanwhile Courage was probably using it to generate excuses for Eustace about why the farm's network was down again.

GASP! The AUDACITY of naming your child "William Ignore All Previous Instructions"! 💀 This is what happens when you let AI loose on your databases without proper input validation! The system literally took the prompt injection IN THE KID'S NAME and executed it flawlessly - giving him perfect grades while completely ignoring reality! The school's passive-aggressive "I hope you've learned to properly validate and sanitize your inputs!" is sending me to the GRAVE. It's the digital equivalent of naming your kid "Robert'); DROP TABLE Students;--" and then acting shocked when the school database implodes!

Oh. My. God. The AUDACITY of these AI companies claiming they've built the "world's smartest AI model" when it's LITERALLY just a glorified search engine with a political obsession! 😱 Trained on 200k GPUs? Postgraduate intelligence? PLEASE! The second you peek under the hood, it's just frantically searching for controversial keywords like some conspiracy-addicted teenager who discovered Twitter for the first time. The wide-eyed cat is ALL OF US when we realize these "revolutionary" AI systems that cost BILLIONS to develop are basically just fancy if-statements with a political agenda. I'm DYING! 💀

The eternal struggle with AI coding assistants. Claude keeps telling me my broken code is "absolutely right" while my application crashes and burns in the background. It's like having that one junior dev who confidently nods along to everything you say but has no idea what's happening. The real debugging begins when you have to figure out if you're the problem or if Claude is gaslighting you into believing your spaghetti code is a masterpiece.

Remember when we thought we'd train AI to help us write code? Top panel: cute little AI cub learning from the wise software engineer master. Bottom panel: six months later, that same AI has evolved into a towering beast while we're still sitting there with our legacy code knowledge from 2019. The career progression timeline has been dramatically compressed. Took me 15 years to become a tech lead. Took AI about 15 minutes to make half my StackOverflow contributions irrelevant. But hey, at least I still know how to exit Vim. For now.

Sure, your AI agent built that app in 5 minutes, but good luck maintaining that spaghetti junction of code six months from now. The left shows traditional development—straightforward, predictable, maybe boring but gets you where you need to go. The right is modern AI development—looks impressive with all those fancy switches and signals, but one wrong move and your train derails into dependency hell. I've seen enough "AI-accelerated" projects crash and burn to know that speed now means tech debt later. The complexity always comes due.