The Audacity Of Non-Builders

Oh god, this is brilliant. Just imagine all those LinkedIn posts now: "Our new cocaine-powered chatbot will revolutionize customer service!" or "Top 10 ways cocaine will disrupt your industry!" The tech hype cycle and the actual cocaine cycle have the same phases: initial euphoria, inflated expectations, crushing disappointment, and somehow still costing you all your money. The only difference is one crashes after 20 minutes and the other after your next funding round.

When your AI-powered project becomes a Frankenstein's monster that even AI can't fix... That's when you know you've created something truly special. This dev built a 30-file Python monstrosity with zero Python knowledge, using Claude as their coding sidekick. Now Claude's having an existential crisis trying to understand the spaghetti code it helped create. The irony is delicious - AI was supposed to replace programmers, but it turns out you still need actual programming skills to tell the AI how to clean up its own mess. This is like asking a toddler to babysit itself and then wondering why the house is on fire.

First panel: Clippy's annoying cousin "Google Meet Assistant" pops up with those dead, soulless eyes asking if you need help analyzing your meeting for the 47th time. Second panel: You frantically close it, thinking you've finally escaped. Third panel: But wait! The AI assistants are multiplying like gremlins fed after midnight. They're everywhere now, asking if you want to "summarize this," "analyze that," or "improve your productivity" while you just want to end the damn call and go make coffee. The digital equivalent of someone asking "how's it going?" when you have headphones on and are clearly trying to avoid human interaction.

Remember when we thought we'd train AI to help us write code? Top panel: cute little AI cub learning from the wise software engineer master. Bottom panel: six months later, that same AI has evolved into a towering beast while we're still sitting there with our legacy code knowledge from 2019. The career progression timeline has been dramatically compressed. Took me 15 years to become a tech lead. Took AI about 15 minutes to make half my StackOverflow contributions irrelevant. But hey, at least I still know how to exit Vim. For now.

Ancient Egyptians somehow managed to build architectural marvels without the corporate tech stack we can't seem to function without. No endless Teams meetings where everyone says "can you hear me?" No 57-slide pitch decks explaining the "stone moving paradigm." No AI that promises to optimize workflow but actually just creates more meetings about the AI. Just people dragging massive stones with pure human effort and mathematical precision. The real pyramid scheme was getting stuff done without a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the office snack selection.

Remember when we used to explain our bugs to rubber ducks? Now we just bark orders at AI models to fix our spaghetti code. The evolution from "here's what I've tried" to "just fix it" perfectly captures our descent into tech laziness. Soon we'll just grunt and expect the AI to read our minds. Progress, I guess? At least the duck never judged our variable naming conventions.