One Man Show

Ah, the classic marketing vs. reality divide. Developers know that what they built is just a simple counter algorithm that goes from 1 to 10, but marketing swoops in and suddenly it's "AI POWERED™" with a trademark symbol because god forbid we call things what they actually are. After 20 years in this industry, I've seen "revolutionary AI" that was just a bunch of if-statements wrapped in a fancy UI. The trademark symbol is the chef's kiss of bullshit – nothing says "we're pretending this is special" quite like a completely unnecessary ™.

Ah, the mathematical reality check we didn't ask for but desperately needed. This dev just proudly announced that AI multiplied their productivity by 5x, taking them from a "0.1x developer" to a... wait for it... "0.5x developer." Still not even hitting the baseline of 1x! It's that special kind of self-deprecating humor that cuts deep because somewhere in your soul, you're wondering if ChatGPT is just making your mediocre code slightly less mediocre. The dream of becoming a 10x developer remains exactly that—a dream—while we celebrate our journey from "completely useless" to "somewhat functional."

From "AI will build my SaaS" to "Oh god, the hackers are coming" in just 48 hours! The classic startup journey speedrun. First post: "My SaaS was built with zero code using AI tools! People actually pay for this!" Second post: "HELP! My API keys are maxed out, people are bypassing subscriptions, and someone's writing 'DROP TABLE users;' in my database!" The best part? The admission "I'm not technical" after bragging about building a SaaS product. Nothing says "robust security architecture" like learning about SQL injection attacks in real-time while your paying customers watch!

Ah, Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been updated for the modern developer! Forget food and shelter—we've all collectively decided that affordable GPUs are the foundation of human existence. When your RTX 4090 costs more than your monthly rent, self-actualization becomes irrelevant. How can anyone achieve psychological stability when they're selling kidneys on the black market just to run machine learning models or play Cyberpunk at max settings? The crypto miners and AI boom have spoken—true enlightenment begins with affordable silicon. Everything else is just a luxury.

Ah, the classic "pretend to be safe" AI script! Someone created the world's most useless AI safety mechanism - a Python program that just says it can't comply with dangerous requests while continuing to ask for more prompts in an infinite loop. It's basically the equivalent of putting a "Beware of Dog" sign on your fence when you own a goldfish. The filename "SuperSafeSupeIntelligence.py" is the cherry on top of this security theater sundae. Ilya Sutskever (OpenAI's chief scientist obsessed with AI safety) would be having a conniption fit right now.

The circle of AI delegation is complete! Senior dev thinks they've discovered a brilliant management hack by treating juniors like neural networks and writing detailed prompts for them. Meanwhile, the junior is just copying those prompts straight into ChatGPT and letting the actual neural network do the work. It's basically prompt engineering inception - the senior dev is unknowingly prompt engineering for an AI through a human middleman who's adding zero value to the process. This is peak 2023 software development efficiency!