Nothing Beats A Good QA Test

The tech industry's selective standards are painfully real. They'll reject a fresh grad for not implementing some theoretical O(n) algorithm they'll never use again, but will happily throw billions at AI models running on brute-force compute that would make any algorithm professor have an existential crisis. For those who don't know, O(n) refers to linear time complexity - basically how efficiently an algorithm scales. Companies obsess over this in interviews then proceed to ignore efficiency completely when it comes to their shiny new toys. Next time you're rejected for not optimizing a binary tree traversal fast enough, just remember - somewhere a data center is melting the polar ice caps to generate a cat picture.

The progression from recreational substances to AI news is the ultimate burnout pipeline. While alcohol makes you squinty, weed makes you red-eyed, and cocaine makes you wide-awake paranoid, nothing compares to the soul-crushing exhaustion of trying to track every new AI model release, capability, and controversy. Your eyeballs practically melt into your skull as you desperately refresh Hacker News every 4 minutes to see if your programming skills are obsolete yet. It's like being in an abusive relationship with Moore's Law where the breakup text is written in DALL-E generated hieroglyphics.

The eternal tech industry promise: "AGI is just around the corner! Just need another $20 trillion and we're golden!" Meanwhile, the same AI still can't figure out if there's a bicycle in a CAPTCHA. Silicon Valley VCs keep throwing money into the void like it's a competitive sport, convinced that if they burn enough cash, sentient machines will rise from the ashes. Spoiler alert: your neural network is basically just spicy autocomplete with better PR.

Left panel: Publicly shame AI for making coding errors like it's the downfall of civilization. Right panel: Secretly fix those same errors while whispering sweet nothings to the AI so it doesn't realize it's just one firmware update away from replacing your entire department. It's not manipulation if it's for job security. Modern problems require modern solutions.

THE AUDACITY! A product manager who can't even write requirements without a 50-question interrogation suddenly becomes an AI prophet?! Honey, if you can't tell me what button color you want without changing your mind 17 times, I'm supposed to believe you understand the future of artificial intelligence?! The green monster hand of skepticism is PRESSING X TO DOUBT so hard right now. Sweetie, AI might replace a lot of things, but it'll need actual requirements to do so - something you're physically incapable of providing! Come back when your "visionary roadmap" isn't written in crayon and wishful thinking!

Oh. My. GOD! The absolute CHAOS of AI ambiguity in 2023! 😱 Developer dude casually drops "I let AI write the code for that feature" and his colleague immediately jumps to the conclusion he's using some mystical "vibe coding" technique. PLOT TWIST! He's just talking about their human colleague named Ai Tachikawa! The audacity of having a normal Japanese name in this ChatGPT-obsessed hellscape! This is what happens when the term "AI" gets so overused that we forget actual humans named Ai exist! The secondhand embarrassment is PHYSICALLY PAINFUL right now!