The AI Popularity Contest

When your fitness app gets confused about its purpose in life and starts moonlighting as a React developer. Poor guy just wanted to track a 10.1 mile run but got hit with a full-blown Todo app implementation instead. The simple "No" response is the digital equivalent of telling your GPS "I just wanted directions, not your life story." Honestly, the most relatable programming moment is when AI tries to be helpful but completely misses what you actually asked for. Bonus points for the fitness app that thinks React components are somehow related to physical fitness. Maybe it's trying to exercise your coding muscles?

Made a bold prediction on October 25th, 2025 that everyone would be "vibe coding" video games by end of 2025. Fast forward to December 14th, 2025—still waiting on that timeline upgrade. The real kicker? Dude's favorite pastime is proving people wrong, yet somehow managed to prove himself wrong in under two months. That's what I call efficient failure. The CI/CD pipeline of bad takes. When your prediction has a shorter lifespan than a JavaScript framework, you know you've achieved something special.

Google really said "let's revolutionize coding with AI!" and then proceeded to create the most EXHAUSTING onboarding experience known to humankind. You're hyped, you download it, and suddenly you're trapped in authentication hell—three login attempts like you're trying to break into Fort Knox. Then BAM, rate limited after 5 prompts because apparently Google thinks you're trying to speedrun the singularity. And the cherry on top? Rumors swirling that Google's own engineers aren't even allowed to use their own creation. The absolute BETRAYAL. So naturally, you crawl back to VS Code with your tail between your legs, defeated by corporate bureaucracy once again. Sometimes the old reliable just hits different.

OH. MY. GOD. The "super intelligent" AI can't even grasp the most BASIC rule of chess?! 🙄 White moves first, sweetie! The fact that ChatGPT confidently makes the first move while playing black and then has the AUDACITY to suggest the same move to the human player is just... *chef's kiss* peak AI incompetence. This is why we're still light-years away from true AGI, people! Can't even handle a simple board game without a total meltdown of logic. And yet the tech bros keep screaming "THE SINGULARITY IS COMING!!!" Sure, Jan. Maybe teach your precious AI to play chess first? 💅

The corporate tech joy ride that ends in a ditch. First, management gets ChatGPT Enterprise and everyone's excited. Then they add Windsurf and the party continues. Soon developers are "vibe coding" instead of writing proper tests. Finally, the AI is reviewing pull requests, and that's when your phone rings at 3 AM because production is on fire. Nothing says "career advancement" like explaining to the CTO why an AI approved code that deleted the customer database because it had "good vibes."

The eternal struggle between productivity and procrastination has found its champion. Someone out there is genuinely concerned that if we keep letting AI write our code, debug our apps, and generate our boilerplate, we won't have enough time left in the day to ignore our actual work and play video games instead. Because nothing says "efficient workflow" like spending 6 hours optimizing your build pipeline so you can save 30 seconds, then immediately losing those gains to "just one more round" of whatever game is currently destroying your sleep schedule. The real fear isn't AI taking our jobs—it's AI making us so productive that we'll have no excuse left for why we didn't finish that side project we've been talking about for three years.