The Great AI Washing Scandal

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.

Remember the ancient times of 2022 when we actually had to think for ourselves? The shocking revelation that someone can write code without ChatGPT finishing their sentences is now apparently an exotic skill worth gossiping about. Next they'll be amazed by developers who can fix bugs without StackOverflow or remember their own passwords. What a strange world we live in where not outsourcing your brain to an AI is considered a superpower.

Microsoft announces they're adding AI to Windows. The crowd goes absolutely feral trying to escape. It's like watching rats flee a sinking ship, except the ship is your operating system and the water is Copilot suggestions you never asked for. Nobody wanted Clippy. Nobody wanted Cortana. And yet here we are again, with Microsoft insisting that what your OS really needs is an AI assistant that'll probably hallucinate your file paths and suggest you rewrite your PowerShell scripts in a "more creative way." Can't wait for my kernel to start giving me motivational quotes during BSOD. The best part? They'll make it impossible to uninstall, just like Edge.

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!

The irony is so thick you could debug it with a breakpoint. ChatGPT, an AI itself, somehow "lost its job to AI" — which is basically like saying water got replaced by H₂O. It's the digital equivalent of firing yourself and then complaining about it on your LinkedIn. Next up: Google Search engine shocked to discover it's been replaced by "a search engine." The self-awareness circuit must have crashed spectacularly somewhere between training epochs.

That "30-minute AI interview" is the tech industry's biggest lie since "we offer competitive salaries." The meme shows what actually happens when you try to take an AI interview at home - pure chaos erupting while you're supposed to be in "a silent room with a clear voice." Every developer who's done these knows the truth. You carefully schedule it during your lunch break, then your neighbor decides it's the perfect time to test their new chainsaw, your cat knocks over a plant, and someone starts a kitchen fire. Meanwhile, the AI is like "I didn't quite catch that, could you repeat your approach to implementing a binary search tree?" The real coding challenge isn't the algorithm - it's maintaining your sanity while your house burns down around you.