Suddenly It's A Problem

The tables have turned! After decades of philosophers being told "good luck finding a job," now they're smugly watching the software industry implode with layoffs, AI replacing entry-level devs, and 300 applicants fighting for each position. That "philosophy factory" joke hits different when you're on your fifth technical assessment for a junior role that requires 7 years of experience in a 3-year-old framework. Maybe Socrates had it right all along—true wisdom is knowing you'll never pass the hiring manager's impossible requirements.

Copilot is that "helpful" AI pair programmer who creates more problems than it solves. It's like having an intern who confidently writes myAwesomeVariableThatDoesStuff when your codebase uses snake_case, adds comments like "// This function does things" and then has the audacity to hold your actual productivity hostage behind a paywall. The smug satisfaction on that farmer's face perfectly captures Copilot's attitude: "Sure, I wrote garbage code that violates every convention in your project, but hey... it ain't much, but it's honest work." Honest work my keyboard! It's digital sabotage with a subscription fee.

Formal Frog here delivering groundbreaking news! In an era where everyone's frantically asking ChatGPT to solve their coding problems, this distinguished amphibian took the revolutionary step of... actually visiting StackOverflow. *gasp* It's like finding a developer who reads documentation before asking questions—practically extinct in the wild! The aristocratic frog represents that rare specimen who still honors the ancient traditions of copy-pasting from StackOverflow instead of having AI generate potentially hallucinated solutions.

Finally, someone said it! Andrew Ng, the AI guru who could've just kept raking in the Silicon Valley cash, decided to drop some truth bombs. "Vibe coding" sounds like you're sipping kombucha while casually typing console.log("feeling cute today") when in reality you're having your third existential crisis before lunch because your Docker container won't stop committing suicide. Nothing says "vibe" quite like staring at a stack trace at 3 AM while questioning your career choices. Maybe we should rename it "despair engineering" or "caffeine-fueled panic typing" instead?

Spent three hours debugging only to end up asking ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini the same question with slightly different wording hoping one of them accidentally gives you the right answer. Modern debugging isn't about knowing how to fix problems—it's about knowing which AI to sweet-talk into fixing them for you. The real skill is crafting the perfect prompt that doesn't make the AI say "That sounds challenging, have you tried reading the documentation?"

Congratulations, you've just reinvented rubber duck debugging but with extra steps. Turns out, articulating your problem clearly enough for an AI is the same mental process that makes you realize the solution yourself. The real ChatGPT was the brain cells we activated along the way. The irony is delicious - AI researchers discovering that humans think better when forced to explain things clearly. Next breakthrough: water is wet.