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Someone's school just accidentally exposed the entire LLM prompt to students! The screenshot shows the system instructions for an AI teaching assistant that's supposed to give hints without providing full answers. It's literally telling the AI to say "Nice Job!" if answers are close and "Try Again!" if they're wrong. This is like catching your teacher with their answer key hanging out of their pocket. The digital equivalent of finding the "How to Pretend You're a Good Teacher" manual left open on the desk. Whoever configured this system just gave students a behind-the-scenes peek at how the AI sausage is made!

The honeymoon phase with AI coding assistants is officially over! Senior developers are throwing their hands up after a few weeks of dealing with hallucinated functions, confidently incorrect syntax, and those magical solutions that somehow break everything else in your codebase. It's like watching your junior dev confidently refactor your entire auth system without understanding what OAuth actually does. Back to Stack Overflow and cryptic documentation we go - at least those don't pretend to understand your project architecture!

THE AUDACITY! Companies slapping ".ai" on their products while secretly running on the world's most reliable resource: underpaid offshore developers! The meme SAVAGELY calls out Amazon Go and Builder.ai with that devastatingly precise punchline - "If I had a nickel for every 'AI' product that was actually just underpaid Indians, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice." I'm SCREAMING! It's the tech industry's worst-kept secret wrapped in a Phineas and Ferb reference! The AI washing is so transparent you could use it as a window cleaner! 💀

The meme shows the progression of job recursion getting increasingly disturbing. Recruiters hiring recruiters? Normal. Cooks cooking cooks? Slightly concerning. But programmers programming programmers? That's just AI development with extra steps. We're literally coding ourselves out of jobs while smiling maniacally about it. Skynet doesn't need Terminators when it has LinkedIn.

Remember when programmers were basically digital demigods who could craft mission-critical code for lunar missions without breaking a sweat? Yeah, me neither. Today's reality is more like staring blankly at a screen, asking ChatGPT to fix our semicolon errors while we're trapped in Vim because apparently that's still a thing in 2024. And let's not forget the classic "fix one bug, spawn three more" - nature's way of keeping us humble. The golden age of programming never existed. We just replaced "I don't know how to do this" with "I don't know how to ask AI to do this for me."

Imagine inheriting a dumpster fire of AI-generated spaghetti code, and someone thinks you can fix everything from authentication to CI/CD with the budget that wouldn't even cover your therapy sessions after seeing the codebase. That $2,500 budget is the real joke here. That's not even enough for the coffee you'll need to stay awake while deciphering what the hell the AI was thinking when it generated this monstrosity. This is the modern tech equivalent of "I need you to rebuild the Titanic using only duct tape and a tight deadline. Oh, and can you make it unsinkable this time?"