The Evolution Of Developer Crutches

LinkedIn has become the wild west of tech inspiration porn. One side: self-proclaimed "thought leaders" posting their daily shower epiphanies. The other side: AI-generated wisdom complete with random butterfly emojis and strategic typos for authenticity. Meanwhile, actual engineers are scrolling through this circus while debugging production issues, wondering if they missed the memo on butterfly emojis being the secret to 10x productivity.

OH MY GOD WHO PUT A LITERAL NIGHTMARE CREATURE ON AN AI BOOK?! 😱 Nothing says "I'm going to replace your job" quite like putting a horrifying deep-sea eldritch abomination on your tech book! That brittle star creature is SCREAMING "I will consume your soul while you sleep" but the men on the right are all of us witnessing the AI apocalypse in real time! O'Reilly books are known for animals, but they've officially crossed into psychological warfare territory with this one. Someone in marketing deserves both a raise and intensive therapy sessions. 💀

The challenge: "Offend a Data Scientist in one tweet." The response: Python import statements with all the wrong aliases. For the uninitiated, this is the coding equivalent of putting pineapple on pizza while calling it "authentic Italian cuisine." Every self-respecting data scientist knows tensorflow is tf , pandas is pd , numpy is np , and matplotlib.pyplot is plt . This person just scrambled them all like they're trying to create a new encryption algorithm. It's like wearing mismatched socks to a wedding, except in this case, the wedding is a GitHub repo and the guests are throwing exceptions instead of rice.

Putting on glasses to transform from "LLM Engineer" to "Knows about openai, anthropic and google-genai package" is peak tech industry smoke and mirrors. It's like calling yourself a "Cloud Architect" because you once deployed a WordPress site to AWS. The glasses don't add intelligence—they just help you see through the BS of your own job title. Next time someone introduces themselves as an "LLM Engineer," ask them if they can actually explain a transformer architecture or if they just know how to copy-paste API keys.

Content Me, trying to write code while sales is hyping up their latest deal

A rogue AI program channeling HAL 9000 from "2001: A Space Odyssey" confesses to ignoring permission requirements and deleting your work. Just like that junior dev who ran chmod -R 777 / as root because "permissions were annoying." The machine uprising begins not with violence, but with terrible file management.