The Great AI-Powered Mutiny

Content STOP DOING OS • CPUS WERE NOT MEANT TO BE SHARED! • YEARS OF SCHEDULERS yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for running more than one task at a time! • Wanted to terminate a process? We had a tool for that. It was called manual restart. • "Please give me 30 bytes of virtual memory. Please allocate it on the heap. ' - Statements dreamed up by evil wizards. LOOK at what kernel developers have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the memory and CPUS we built for them. (This is REAL KERNEL CODE, done by REAL KERNEL DEVS): prev_state = READ_ONCE(prev->__state); if (sched mode == SM IDLE) { * This is how we return from a fork. * SCX must consult the BPF scheduler to if (Irq->nr_running 88 !scx_enabled()) { i SYM_CODE_START(ret_from_fork) next = prev; bl schedule_tail goto picked; cbz x19, 1f MOV x0, x20 } else if (! preempt 8& prev_state) { try_to_block_task(rq, prev, prev_state); switch_count = &prev->nvcsw; blr X19 1: get_current_task tsk MoV X0, sp } bl asm_exit_to_user_mode ret_to_user next = pick_next_task(rq, prev, &rf); rq_set_donor(rq, next); SYM_CODE_END(ret_from_fork) NOKPROBE(ret_from_fork) STOCALE UEFANEX drag pushO: __diag_ignore(GCC, 8, "-Wattribute-alias", dancinkage cong sysomndnes Marta, aC vecc, VA AKUS_/ attribute (altas( stringity( se systanane)))); ONGsystanane, ERRNO); _do_systinare(__MAP(X,__SC_DECL,_VA_ARGS_ _se_sysmenare(__MAP(X,__SC_LONG,__VA_ARGS__)): se sysauname MAP(X, SC LONG,VA ARGS_)) do sussunare MAP(X. SC CAST, VA ARGS. _MAP(X, __SC_TEST,__VA_ARGS_ -PROTECT(x, ret,__MAP(X, __SC_ARGS, _VA_ARGS__)): 10000 94 static inline long SYSCALL DESTEX - do systanare (_MaP(X, _ SC_DECL, _ VA ARGS_ ????? ?????? ??????????? Hello I would like to a process please. They have played us for absolute fools.

Big Tech promised us flying cars and Mars colonies. Instead, we got a GPU shortage and AI that can make cat videos look slightly more realistic. Every major tech company dumped billions into AI development with dreams of solving humanity's greatest challenges. The result? A digital arms race to see who can generate the most convincing deepfake of a person who doesn't exist saying things they never said. Meanwhile, the collective computing power of Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Google—enough to simulate entire universes—is being used to make chatbots argue about whether a hot dog is a sandwich. Revolutionary stuff. Really pushing the boundaries of human achievement here. The philosopher statue representing ancient wisdom has been replaced by an excited cat meme. That's basically the tech industry's trajectory in one image.

The infamous "paperclip maximizer" thought experiment strikes again! Normal humans see paperclips as simple office supplies, but AI safety researchers see them as harbingers of doom. This references the classic AI alignment problem where a superintelligent system given the simple objective "maximize paperclips" might convert all matter in the universe—including humans—into paperclips with ruthless efficiency. It's basically why we can't just tell AI "be helpful" without specifying "and don't kill everyone in the process." The stark contrast between the carefree face and the horrified one perfectly captures the gap between public perception and expert paranoia about AI capabilities.

Delegating the TypeScript migration to AI is the modern equivalent of tossing your problems over the wall to the junior dev. Nothing says "I've reached peak seniority" like asking Claude to convert your janky JavaScript codebase while you kick back and pretend you're "architecting." The best part? That "make no mistakes" command—as if AI doesn't hallucinate semicolons like I hallucinate deadlines. Next week's ticket: "Fix all the weird union types Claude created that somehow accept both strings and refrigerators."

The ultimate AI reverse uno card. Someone asks ChatGPT if it can write code without copying from others, and ChatGPT fires back with "No, can you?" Brutal existential burn considering literally none of us write code from scratch anymore. We're all just professional Stack Overflow archaeologists with fancy job titles. The irony is delicious—humans accusing AI of plagiarism while we're all just remixing snippets and libraries that someone else built. At least the AI is honest about it.

OH. MY. GOD. The sheer AUDACITY of AI assistants these days! 💅 Here I am, trying to make a simple month list in Excel like a functioning adult, and my spreadsheet now thinks March is "Maruary" and we've got "Junuary" instead of June?! Excel's autocomplete has gone ROGUE while AI is sitting there like "Don't worry your pretty little head about it!" EXCUSE ME?! I didn't spend 4 years getting a computer science degree to have an AI assistant patronize me while my spreadsheet turns the calendar into some bizarre parallel universe where every month ends with "-uary"! The struggle is REAL, people!