Quicker, But What Do We Sacrifice?

Ah yes, the coveted "No AI" badge—proudly displayed by developers who spent 17 hours debugging their own spaghetti code instead of asking ChatGPT to fix it in 3 seconds. It's like bragging about churning your own butter when there's a perfectly good supermarket next door. "Look at me, I suffered unnecessarily and have the dark circles under my eyes to prove it!" Meanwhile, the deadline was yesterday and the client is wondering why a simple feature costs more than their car payment.

The classic learning curve of doom! Newbie programmers staring up at the programming staircase of despair where even the first step (Hello World) looks like Mount Everest. Meanwhile, they're already Googling "how to build Skynet with no programming experience" and wondering why their neural networks aren't sentient yet. The irony is that most tutorials literally start with printing "Hello World" to the console, but somehow folks want to skip straight to building the next ChatGPT without understanding variables. It's like trying to compose a symphony when you can't even play "Hot Cross Buns" on the recorder.

Grammar correction in the wild. King declares himself "the dumbest man alive," only to be immediately dethroned when someone mentions "AI prompt engineering is the future." The true champion of ignorance has been found. Happens to the best of us—one minute you're the dumbest person in the room, then someone walks in talking about their revolutionary prompt that just says "make it good" with fifteen exclamation points.

That moment when your client says "just sprinkle some AI into our app" like they're asking for extra cheese on a pizza. Meanwhile, you're mentally calculating how many weekends you'll sacrifice to implement a neural network that can barely tell a cat from a toaster. Your fist clenches as they add "shouldn't take more than a day or two, right?" Sure, and I'll also build a quantum computer with paperclips and bubble gum while I'm at it.

Oh, the eternal job security of dealing with clients who say they want a "simple website" but actually mean "Facebook but better" with a budget of $200. The AI apocalypse might be coming for some jobs, but programmers can sleep soundly knowing that no robot will ever decipher "make it pop" or "I'll know what I want when I see it." Our superpower isn't coding—it's somehow building functional software from requirements that change faster than JavaScript frameworks.

The JavaScript ecosystem's greatest fear: finding out some random AI model was trained on their npm packages. The title "I Tsc Alled Dis Ti Lla Tion" is a play on "distillation" - the process where AI models learn from other models - but butchered to include "tsc" (TypeScript compiler) and broken into syllables like someone having a panic attack. Nothing sends a JavaScript developer into hysterics faster than discovering their precious code snippets are now being regurgitated by ChatGPT. Meanwhile, the logos for TypeScript, React, and Node.js perfectly represent the frameworks watching their intellectual property get slurped up by the AI void.