O'Reilly: Coding With GPT

The evolution of developers has taken a tragic turn! Back in the glory days, programmers were depicted as muscular chads who wrote code without AI assistance or Stack Overflow, built entire games in Assembly language (absolute madlads), crafted mission-critical code for Moon landings, and fixed memory leaks by manually tweaking pointers. Fast forward to today, and we've devolved into bizarre creatures who can't center a div without Googling it for the 500th time, beg ChatGPT to fix basic syntax errors, get trapped in Vim like it's some kind of developer prison (":q! anyone?"), and somehow manage to create three new bugs while fixing just one. The brutal reality check hits hard. We went from programming gods to dependency-addicted gremlins who can't function without our precious tools. Progress?

First tweet: "Look at me! I built a SaaS with AI and zero coding! People actually pay for this!" Two days later: "Help! I'm being hacked! My API keys are maxed out, people are bypassing subscriptions, and my database is a dumpster fire!" The classic "I'm not technical" + "I skipped all security measures" combo strikes again. Turns out that building a product without understanding the fundamentals is like building a house with popsicle sticks—impressive until the first strong wind. Friendly reminder: AI can write your code, but it can't protect you from your own hubris. Security isn't just a vibe killer—it's actually kind of important.

Behold the perfect visualization of how AI investment money circulates in 2023! Microsoft pumping billions into OpenAI, OpenAI funneling cash to Nvidia for GPUs, and poor Oracle just awkwardly hanging out in the loop trying to stay relevant. The articulated bus traffic jam is *chef's kiss* perfect - these tech giants are just bending over backward to hand each other obscene amounts of cash while going absolutely nowhere. Meanwhile, the actual innovation is probably that bicycle in the corner quietly sneaking past the whole mess.

Gaming monitors have evolved faster than GPUs can keep up. You've got these absolute beasts pushing 4K at 200Hz, meanwhile your RTX 5080—supposedly a high-end card—is sitting there like a confused cat on a couch, barely managing 4K 60fps without begging AI upscaling (DLSS) to carry it across the finish line. The irony is delicious: we've built displays that our hardware can't actually drive at native resolution. So now we're dependent on neural networks to fake the pixels we can't render. The monitor is flexing its specs while the GPU is out here doing mental gymnastics just to pretend it belongs in the same room. Welcome to 2024, where your display writes checks your graphics card can't cash without algorithmic assistance.

Nothing says "I'm a serious developer" quite like dropping $3000 on a PC just to run VS Code and Chrome. The unholy matrimony of NVIDIA and Ryzen—where your GPU costs more than your car payment and your CPU has more cores than you have meaningful relationships. Meanwhile, your code still crashes because you forgot a semicolon. The modern dev's power couple: enough computing strength to simulate the universe, primarily used to run npm install and watch YouTube tutorials on the side.

Remember the days when developers actually wrote code from scratch? In 2023, coding without AI assistance has become the new flex. The shocked reaction perfectly captures how our standards have plummeted—writing a for-loop without GitHub Copilot suggesting it is now considered a superhuman achievement. Next thing you know, people will be swooning over devs who can center a div without Stack Overflow!