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The generational divide in tech has never been more savage! Old-timer dev with his magnificent beard is schooling these youngsters about the ancient art of coding without AI assistance. “ChatGPT? When I was your age I had to write my own code” hits different in 2024 when half of us are just prompt engineers now. It's like bragging about churning your own butter or hunting woolly mammoths. The irony? That senior probably copy-pasted from StackOverflow anyway. The tech cycle continues—today's juniors will someday lecture about the primitive days of having to type prompts instead of just thinking them.

Started coding a "simple hash function" and GitHub Copilot went full existential crisis mode. Started reasonable with "not cryptographically secure, but fast" then spiraled into "not guaranteed to be stable across different phases of the moon" and "different parallel universes." This is what happens when your AI assistant has seen one too many 3 AM debugging sessions. Somewhere in Silicon Valley, a neural network is clearly having PTSD flashbacks from training on StackOverflow comments.

The ultimate Python double entendre! On one side, we have animal traffickers smuggling actual pandas, while on the other, data scientists are just trying to import pandas for their data analysis. The bottom panel reveals the shared crime: "IMPORTING PANDAS." The data scientists think they're just using a harmless Python library, but they've accidentally joined the dark side of wildlife trafficking. Next time your code review includes pandas imports, maybe ask a few more questions about where those dataframes really came from.

A clever nod to Apple TV+'s "Severance" where the character's work self ("innie") is separated from their outside self ("outie"). Just like how developers have two personalities: the one who stubbornly refuses AI assistance at home, and the one who secretly lets GitHub Copilot write half their codebase at work. We all have principles until the deadline is tomorrow.

The eternal struggle of math majors who chose programming instead of the "traditional" math paths. On the left, we see the bright, colorful world of physics, machine learning, electrical engineering, statistics, and numerical analysis – all respectable career choices that utilize advanced mathematics. On the right, the noir film-style programmer, stripped of color and joy, questioning their life choices while debugging someone else's spaghetti code at 3 AM. That moment when you realize you could be solving differential equations but instead you're arguing with the compiler about why a semicolon is missing. The math degree prepared you to understand complex algorithms but forgot to mention you'd spend 90% of your time fixing indentation errors.

ChatGPT confidently declaring there are 9 triangles when most humans can only spot 4 is the perfect metaphor for AI development. It's either seeing mathematical patterns beyond our comprehension or just making stuff up with unwavering confidence. The real AGI achievement isn't counting triangles—it's the audacity to be wrong with such conviction that you start questioning your own sanity. Next up: AI explaining why your code works when it absolutely shouldn't.