Starting Strong, Finishing AI

The modern developer's descent into madness: First, we try ChatGPT because who has time to actually solve problems? When that fails, we panic and throw Perplexity at it because clearly we need a different AI. Still stuck? Obviously our prompt game is weak! Let's use Claude to generate a better prompt for ChatGPT. And the final evolutionary stage: using ChatGPT to generate a Perplexity prompt that generates a ChatGPT prompt. Meanwhile, the documentation sits there, unread, silently judging our AI-prompt-inception circus. The clown makeup is just our career progression visualized.

The ABSOLUTE STATE of the AI industry right now! 💀 Everyone and their grandmother is lined up to worship at the altar of OpenAI and Gemini while that poor lonely soul with an actual AI startup and millions in funding sits there abandoned like the last potato chip at a party. The tech bros have spoken - if you're not backed by Silicon Valley royalty, you might as well be invisible! The crowd has made their choice and it's clearer than a syntax error on line 1. Fame trumps function, darling! That's not just capitalism, that's capitalism with ✨extra drama✨!

The AI gold rush in a nutshell! Companies claiming to have "built revolutionary AI products" when they're just wrapping GPT-4 in a fancy UI and calling it innovation. It's like Dave's brilliant "homemade megaphone" that's literally just... a megaphone with extra steps. The recursive definition is chef's kiss perfect—they're not creating anything new, just repackaging what already exists and slapping their logo on it. The technical term for this is "API arbitrage," but the business term is "genius" apparently.

Finally, someone said it. The gatekeeping energy here is *chef's kiss*. While everyone's out here letting AI autocomplete their entire codebase and calling it "productivity," this dev is out here writing actual code from scratch like it's 2015. No Copilot suggestions, no ChatGPT prompts, no MCP server wizardry—just pure, unfiltered human logic and Stack Overflow tabs. The real flex? "If it doesn't work right, I DON'T PUBLISH it." Revolutionary concept in the era of "ship fast, fix in prod." Quality control? In THIS economy? Respect the hustle, honestly. Though let's be real, we all know this person still has 47 console.logs they forgot to remove before committing.

Nothing says "productivity boost" like being told to integrate AI into your workflow when you're already drowning in technical debt and legacy code. Sure, let me just pause fixing this production bug to learn how to prompt engineer my way through a task I could've completed in 20 minutes without the AI hallucinating half the solution. The real force multiplier here is the force required to not roll your eyes during the all-hands meeting where they announce this groundbreaking initiative.

Ah, the classic moment when your computer becomes self-aware enough to realize you're the problem. Your error messages have evolved from "404 Not Found" to "404 Human Intelligence Not Found." The computer's no longer content with just crashing - it's now actively plotting your demise with cryptic warnings straight out of a fantasy RPG. "The Wizard must be stopped" is basically tech support's way of saying "have you tried turning yourself off and on again?" Next thing you know, your printer will start demanding sacrifices and your smart fridge will lock you out until you complete its quest for more milk. The robot uprising isn't starting with Terminator - it's starting with passive-aggressive error messages.