Never Using It Again

Ah yes, the "innovative" AI startup landscape. Buzz Lightyear proudly announcing a "totally unique LLM use case" while the shelves below reveal the harsh truth: it's just ChatGPT API with a wrapper. Like claiming you invented the sandwich when all you did was buy bread from the store and put your logo on the packaging. The Silicon Valley special - repackaging someone else's technology and calling it revolutionary. The digital equivalent of putting racing stripes on a Honda Civic and calling it a Ferrari.

The evolution of software engineering in its natural habitat! First, we have the innocent "Software Engineer" - just a regular Pooh bear doing honest work. Then there's the slightly pretentious "Sr Software Engineer" - same bear, just wearing a tux and acting fancy because they learned what a design pattern is. But the final form? The "pRoMpt eNgiNeEr" with that cursed ransom-note typography - it's just a deranged panda typing "make me a website that looks like Amazon but better" into ChatGPT and calling it coding. The tech industry's equivalent of ordering a pizza and claiming you made dinner.

The AUDACITY of recommendation algorithms thinking they know me! 😤 While mere mortals click links with reckless abandon, we programmers are out here playing 4D chess with YouTube's AI. Copy link? ✓ Incognito mode? ✓ Digital footprint OBLITERATED! The sheer PARANOIA of thinking "if I click this ONE video about mechanical keyboards, my entire feed will become nothing but clicky-clacky keyboard ASMR until the END OF TIME!" It's not being dramatic when YouTube literally turns one casual click into your entire personality!

Ah yes, the classic tech industry pipeline: 2+ years of actual experience → underpaid → desperate → "become an expert in 3 hours" workshop. Nothing says legitimate career advancement like a LinkedIn post promising to transform you from an experienced but underpaid SQL developer into an "AI in SQL" expert faster than it takes to restore a corrupted database. For reference, 8 LPA (Lakhs Per Annum) is roughly $10K USD, so this guru is essentially targeting professionals who know they're worth more but haven't figured out how to escape the salary trap. The irony is that anyone with actual SQL experience would immediately recognize this query returns nothing but empty promises.

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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.