The Evolution Of Developer Crutches

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The evolution of professional ethics in the digital age is... something else. Designers freak out when AI scrapes their artwork: "NO! THIS IS ILLEGAL!" Meanwhile, programmers hear that ChatGPT pillaged their GitHub repos and their first question is "Did it actually compile though?" Nothing captures the programmer mindset better than skipping past the copyright violation and jumping straight to "but does it work?" Because let's be honest - if ChatGPT can make sense of your spaghetti code, you might as well hire it.

Stack Overflow being tossed aside like last year's Christmas toy now that AI can generate code snippets. Five years of meticulously collecting upvotes just to be replaced by a chatbot that hallucinates half its answers but delivers them with unwavering confidence. The future is here, and it's wearing a cowboy hat.

Ah, the good ol' days of coding... Two guys safely installing an AC unit while standing on a narrow ledge, labeled as the coding equivalent of copy-pasting from Stack Overflow vs. writing your own code. The self-written code guy is literally hanging off the edge of certain death just to feel the satisfaction of originality. Meanwhile, the Stack Overflow copiers look slightly more stable but equally questionable in their life choices. Let's be honest - before AI coding assistants, we were all just one misplaced semicolon away from plummeting into the abyss of debugging. The only difference was whether we fell with borrowed code or with our own janky implementation that somehow worked despite violating every principle in the textbook.

Someone needs to tell Elon about the exponential growth of node_modules folders. While AI might be growing fast, any JavaScript developer knows the true speed champion is watching your disk space vanish as soon as you run npm install . That 5MB project somehow needs 500MB of dependencies, and God help you if you're on a slow internet connection. The real technological singularity isn't AI - it's when a single node_modules folder finally consumes all available storage on Earth.

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