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When your sorting algorithm is just "Hey ChatGPT, can you sort this for me?" 🤣 Finally, a sorting algorithm with O(API_call) complexity! Sure, it might take 3 seconds instead of 0.000001, but why implement quicksort when you can outsource your basic CS skills to an AI that probably learned from the Stack Overflow answers you were too lazy to read? Next up: VibeSearch - for when binary search is just too much work.

Nothing kicks your brain into high gear like the threat of financial ruin! This genius created the ultimate wake-up call by programming an AI to launch 100 premium EC2 instances at 6 AM daily. For the uninitiated, EC2 instances are Amazon's cloud computing servers that can cost hundreds of dollars per hour for the high-end ones. The sheer terror of potentially burning $500 per minute because you hit snooze one too many times? That's motivation no amount of coffee could ever provide. The cloud computing equivalent of putting your alarm clock across the room, except this one threatens to empty your bank account. The best part? "I haven't missed a day so far." Yeah, no kidding. Nothing says "rise and shine" like impending bankruptcy!

When you spent years mastering tree inversions in C++ with all those pointer gymnastics, memory leaks, and segmentation faults only to watch some kid ask ChatGPT to do it in 5 seconds. The audacity. The betrayal. Back in my day, we debugged with print statements and cried silently into our mechanical keyboards.

The CEO of OpenAI just casually confirming they're burning millions of dollars processing our unnecessary politeness to chatbots. Meanwhile, developers everywhere are optimizing code to save 3KB of memory. The irony is delicious - we're teaching AI manners while it silently judges our inefficient prompts. Next time you thank ChatGPT, remember you're basically throwing Sam Altman's money into a digital furnace... and he's totally cool with it.

The GPU market is the ultimate gaslighting experience. Those brave souls who splurged on the RTX 3060 with 12GB VRAM in 2021 were mocked mercilessly by the "wait for next gen" crowd. Fast forward to 2023-2025, and NVIDIA's playing memory limbo with newer cards having less VRAM than their predecessors. The 3060 owners are sitting there like Thanos, watching the sun rise on a grateful universe of AI models and textures that barely fit in 8GB. Vindication tastes sweet when you're the only one who can run Stable Diffusion without your computer having an existential crisis.

Behold, the "ML Engineer" who discovered that Python sorts strings alphabetically instead of numerically! The horror! Next breaking news: water is wet. What we're witnessing here is the classic "I didn't read the docs but it's definitely the language's fault" syndrome. Python's sorted() is working perfectly—it's sorting ["9%", "83%", "25%"] as strings, exactly as it should when you give it strings. Pro tip for our aspiring "ML Engineer": try sorted([int(x.strip('%')) for x in a]) next time. Or maybe stick to Excel?