Starting Strong, Finishing AI

OH. MY. GOD. The IDE is not just highlighting the error—it's offering to FIX IT WITH AI! 💀 This is the digital equivalent of handing a junior dev the keys to production and saying "whatever happens, happens!" The computer is literally telling us "children doesn't exist" and then offering to write our code FOR US. Excuse me while I update my LinkedIn profile to "Former Developer" because if AI can debug React props, what am I even doing with my life?! Next thing you know, it'll be writing passive-aggressive comments about my variable naming conventions!

Ah, the famous Lincoln quote about prompt engineering. Turns out Honest Abe was ahead of his time by about 150 years. The joke here is that modern developers spend more time crafting the perfect AI prompt than actually coding the solution. Two-thirds of your "coding" time goes into explaining to an AI what you want, using buzzwords like "agentic b2b SaaS" that would make any venture capitalist swoon. Lincoln freed the slaves but couldn't free us from documentation.

Nothing humbles you faster than the market. Left side: AI bro screaming in agony because his "revolutionary" SaaS built in 14 days with 13 of those spent on the landing page isn't making him yacht money. Right side: Indie dev with the stoic thousand-yard stare after realizing his passion project's 297 downloads (mostly from Reddit sympathy clicks) means he'll be eating ramen for another year. The funniest part? Both of them will be back at it next month with a new "guaranteed winner." Some lessons you have to learn repeatedly at $7.25/hour.

Ah yes, the mythical creature known as "The Senior Who Codes Without ChatGPT" – a tale passed down through generations of developers around the campfire. The juniors sit there in absolute awe, mouths agape, as if hearing about a programmer who remembers how to center a div without Stack Overflow or can write a recursive function without asking an AI to debug it. It's basically the programming equivalent of "back in my day, we walked uphill both ways in the snow" except it's "back in 2021, we actually had to understand our own code."

Behold the mighty tower of tech that powers our digital world—a precarious Jenga tower of components held together by what appears to be a single AI wedge. Because nothing says "enterprise-grade reliability" like balancing the entire internet on something we barely understand yet proudly put into production anyway. The best part? When it inevitably collapses, we'll just blame "unforeseen scaling issues" in the post-mortem while frantically Googling "how to restore from backups we never tested."

Ah, the irony. Microsoft proudly announces 30% of their code is now AI-generated, while simultaneously shipping a Windows 11 bug that duplicates Task Manager when you try to close it. So now you need two 'X' clicks to kill the process that's supposed to kill other processes. It's like watching someone install a fancy smart lock on their front door while the back door is literally falling off its hinges. The future of software, folks – where AI helps you write code that breaks in spectacular new ways.