We Need AI (Like We Need More Meetings)

Someone asked ChatGPT about JavaScript's export default App; syntax and got the most refreshingly honest AI response ever: "I honestly have no idea." Finally, an AI that admits defeat instead of confidently hallucinating some nonsensical explanation about React components! If only my junior devs had this level of self-awareness instead of copy-pasting Stack Overflow answers they don't understand. The robots might replace us, but at least they'll be upfront about their limitations.

The "future of autonomous vehicles" in a nutshell. Companies hype up their "AI-driven" robotaxis while quietly outsourcing the actual driving to some guy with a gaming steering wheel in a cubicle halfway across the world. It's the tech industry's version of the Wizard of Oz – "pay no attention to the underpaid contractor behind the curtain!" Next time your self-driving car makes an unusually human decision like slowing down for a squirrel or taking that shortcut through the alley, just know there's probably a dude named Rajesh getting paid $5/hour to make sure you don't crash into a tree. Silicon Valley's dirty little secret: most "AI solutions" are just humans in digital disguise.

Sure, OpenAI will solve cancer. Right after they finish training their models on the entire internet, burning through enough electricity to power a small country, and charging $20/month for ChatGPT Plus. Meanwhile, cancer researchers are over here actually doing science with microscopes and petri dishes like it's the stone age. The joke being that people genuinely think AI is some magic sudo command that'll fix literally everything, including diseases that have stumped humanity for centuries. Sorry folks, but apt-get install cancer-cure returns a 404. Package not found in any repository, not even the sketchy PPAs.

Visual Studio Code from the future is apparently just an AI delivery system now. The "many updates" in the March 2025 release can be summarized as: AI, AI, AI, AI, AI, and... wait for it... AI! Microsoft's subtle approach to feature diversity is truly inspiring. Why bother with performance improvements, bug fixes, or new developer tools when you can just repeat "AI" six times and call it a day? Coming in version 2.0: Your code now writes itself while simultaneously reporting everything you do to Skynet. But hey, at least it autocompletes your semicolons correctly!

The modern freelance developer's business model in its purest form. Get paid $20 to fix a bug, immediately spend half of it on a Copilot subscription that probably wrote the buggy code in the first place, and pocket a measly $10 profit. The smug anime girl just makes it perfect – that face when you realize you're essentially paying GitHub to help you fix the mess their AI created. It's the circle of tech life: create problems, sell solutions, repeat.

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