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Congratulations Amazon, you've achieved peak corporate irony! Replace 40% of your DevOps team with AI, then watch as your infrastructure implodes spectacularly. Nothing says "flawless strategy" like having Fortnite kids and Alexa users simultaneously discover that your cost-cutting measures resulted in digital apocalypse. The grim reaper couldn't have orchestrated a better self-own. Next time maybe keep the humans who actually know how to fix things when they break? Just a wild thought.

Standing in a field waiting for AI to replace developers who can't handle regex? Might be a while. Regular expressions aren't actually hard—they're just a precise language for pattern matching that follows logical rules. The real challenge is remembering to escape your backslashes twice and not writing patterns so complex that future-you sends death threats to past-you. Meanwhile, AI still struggles with "select all images with traffic lights," so maybe learn regex instead of waiting for the robot uprising.

Corporate: "Can you spot the difference between a gold bar and a high-end GPU?" Developers in 2024: "They're the same picture." With GPUs costing as much as precious metals these days, training that fancy ML model might require a second mortgage. Remember when we just worried about RAM prices? Those were simpler times.

The schadenfreude is palpable. Senior devs have watched this movie before—junior copies ChatGPT code, junior deploys ChatGPT code, production server bursts into flames. There's a special kind of satisfaction watching someone learn the hard way that AI doesn't understand edge cases or business logic. It's the circle of dev life: you either die a ChatGPT believer or live long enough to become the cackling senior who saw it coming.

The modern dev dependency crisis in full display! Remember when we used to actually write code instead of prompting AI for solutions? Now it's all "Hey ChatGPT, implement a binary search tree" while our actual coding muscles atrophy. The mannequin perfectly represents that dev who freezes up when GitHub Copilot goes down for maintenance. Pure panic. Meanwhile, the rest of us dinosaurs who learned to code before AI assistants are just watching the chaos unfold with a mix of amusement and existential dread. Evolution is brutal.

The entire tech industry right now is just a Jenga tower of random components with AI duct-taped to the side. Venture capitalists throwing money at anything with "AI-powered" in the pitch deck while engineers frantically try to keep the whole rickety structure from collapsing. Meanwhile, my toaster now needs a privacy policy and wants to know my location. Progress!