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5 months ago 463,080 views 3 shares

Trust Me Bro

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The tech influencer grift cycle in its purest form. Wake up, predict software engineering will be extinct by next Tuesday because ChatGPT sneezed, disappear for a few months to avoid accountability, then resurface with the exact same doomsday prophecy like your last prediction didn't age like milk in the sun. Rinse, repeat, monetize the panic.

The "Anthropic CEO" label is *chef's kiss* because nothing says credibility like pretending you're running a billion-dollar AI company while recycling the same "learn to code is dead" takes every quarter. These folks have predicted the death of software jobs more times than JavaScript has had new frameworks released (and that's saying something). Meanwhile, the rest of us are still shipping features, debugging production, and wondering when this supposed apocalypse is scheduled between our stand-ups.

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