The Programmer's Hierarchy Of Excuses

Left panel: Publicly shame AI for making coding errors like it's the downfall of civilization. Right panel: Secretly fix those same errors while whispering sweet nothings to the AI so it doesn't realize it's just one firmware update away from replacing your entire department. It's not manipulation if it's for job security. Modern problems require modern solutions.

The duality of developer existence, captured in Shiba Inu form. On the left, we have the battle-hardened veteran—muscular, imposing, and completely unimpressed by technology that can't handle basic functionality. Meanwhile, the right side shows the innocent newcomer, blissfully celebrating an AI-generated website that probably has the structural integrity of a house of cards in a hurricane. The experienced dev knows that "generated in 5 minutes" means "will cause 5 months of debugging." The circle of life continues.

The secret sauce of modern development revealed! When asked about becoming a coder, the honest answer isn't four years of computer science or mastering algorithms—it's just endlessly Googling error messages until something magically works. The uncomfortable truth is that 90% of our "expertise" is knowing exactly what to search for and which Stack Overflow answer to copy-paste. ChatGPT is just Google with extra steps and fewer captchas asking us to identify traffic lights.

Ah, Maslow's hierarchy of needs has been updated for the modern developer! Forget food and shelter—we've all collectively decided that affordable GPUs are the foundation of human existence. When your RTX 4090 costs more than your monthly rent, self-actualization becomes irrelevant. How can anyone achieve psychological stability when they're selling kidneys on the black market just to run machine learning models or play Cyberpunk at max settings? The crypto miners and AI boom have spoken—true enlightenment begins with affordable silicon. Everything else is just a luxury.

The eternal standoff between designers and programmers has entered the AI era. Designers look horrified when programmers use LLMs to generate UIs, while programmers give the same judgmental side-eye when designers use AI to generate code. It's like watching two people who can't swim criticizing each other's diving form. Neither result will compile correctly, but both sides will spend hours explaining why the other's approach is worse.

The classic "Asian parent expectations" trope gets a hilarious AI twist! Dad barging in with "YOU AGI YET?" while his son defends himself with "NO DAD, I'M AN LLM" only to be dismissed with "TALK TO ME WHEN YOU AGI." For the uninitiated: LLMs (Large Language Models) like ChatGPT are impressive but limited, while AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) is the holy grail that can think/reason like humans across all domains. It's like comparing a calculator to an actual mathematician. The crushing disappointment in Dad's eyes says it all... "My neighbor's AI is already solving quantum physics and you're still just autocompleting text? Shameful!"