The Heresy Of Manual Coding

Remember when FAANG (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) was the cool kids club of tech companies everyone wanted to work for? Well, times change. Now it's GAYMAN - Google, Amazon, Y (probably meant to be Yelp or Y Combinator), Meta (formerly Facebook), Apple, Nvidia. The real joke is how we developers keep creating acronyms for companies that would replace us with an AI in a heartbeat. The irony that Nvidia - the company powering the AI revolution - is now in the club isn't lost on me. Six-figure salaries and free snacks though, so who's complaining?

The classic "I know better than the buzzwords" conversation that happens in every tech company these days. You're just trying to be the voice of reason suggesting a simple algorithmic solution, but management's been reading too many LinkedIn posts about AI revolutionizing everything. That "how dare you?" reaction is what happens when you threaten someone's chance to put "AI-powered solution" on their quarterly achievements slide. Ten years in the industry and I've learned questioning the AI hype is basically career suicide at this point.

Finally, a sorting algorithm with the computational complexity of O($$). Just send your array to GPT, pay a few cents, and get it back sorted. Perfect for when you need your data arranged but can't be bothered to remember how quicksort works. The best part? If your array isn't sorted correctly, you can just claim it's because the AI "didn't understand the vibe" of your integers.

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of this AI model taking the question SO literally! 🤦‍♀️ Someone innocently asks how to import the pandas library (you know, that LIFE-SAVING Python data analysis package we'd literally DIE without), and this AI goes full dad-joke mode with "visit China or a zoo!" Meanwhile, every data scientist is SCREAMING into their mechanical keyboard: "IT'S JUST import pandas as pd YOU SILICON-BRAINED MONSTER!!!"

The eternal struggle between productivity and procrastination has found its champion. Someone out there is genuinely concerned that if we keep letting AI write our code, debug our apps, and generate our boilerplate, we won't have enough time left in the day to ignore our actual work and play video games instead. Because nothing says "efficient workflow" like spending 6 hours optimizing your build pipeline so you can save 30 seconds, then immediately losing those gains to "just one more round" of whatever game is currently destroying your sleep schedule. The real fear isn't AI taking our jobs—it's AI making us so productive that we'll have no excuse left for why we didn't finish that side project we've been talking about for three years.

Ah, "Vibe Coding" – where the only requirement is vibes and absolutely zero coding knowledge. Started as industry satire, now it's an actual 4-week course with a fancy instructor in a green suit promising to make you feel good about not understanding a single line of code. This is like offering "Vibe Surgery" where you just hold a scalpel and manifest healing energy. Next up: "Vibe Engineering" – build bridges with positive affirmations and Instagram filters. The tech industry has officially completed its transformation from "we need skilled engineers" to "just bring your authentic self and we'll figure out how to deploy that to production."