When GPT Needs Help

So Microsoft brags about 30% of their code being AI-generated, then pushes an update that kills your SSD. Coincidence? I think not. This is what happens when you let GitHub Copilot write your disk I/O routines. Next update will probably require a blood sacrifice and your firstborn child just to boot up. Remember when updates just fixed things instead of creating exciting new problems? Those were the days...

When you ask an AI to fix your CSS z-index issue and wake up to find your entire website has vanished into the void. Classic sledgehammer approach to fixing a thumbtack problem! The z-index is technically no longer causing issues if there's nothing left to display. Zero elements = zero stacking context conflicts. Task failed successfully! For the uninitiated: z-index controls the stacking order of elements on a webpage (which appears on top of what). Fixing it usually requires a small CSS tweak, not nuclear annihilation of the entire UI.

Ah yes, the classic "I met a teenager who built a $600k/month arbitrage bot with AI that worked on the first try" story. Right up there with "my cousin's friend invented blockchain 2.0 in his garage." The beautiful part is the escalating absurdity: design doc → Cursor → Sonnet 4.5 → boom, instant money printer. No debugging, no edge cases, no "wait the API changed" moments. Just pure vibes and arbitrage. The $400k Christmas bug that got fixed during dinner is chef's kiss territory—because nothing says "legitimate trading operation" like losing half a million dollars and casually patching it between turkey and dessert. Running it under mom's Polymarkets account is the cherry on top. SEC investigators love that one weird trick. The punchline "None of this ever happened btw" is unnecessary—we all knew from "worked on the first try."

Ah, the irony of modern tech! Here's a vintage book teaching "Artificial Intelligence in BASIC" from what looks like the 80s, sitting right next to "EXPERT SYSTEMS" on the bookshelf. Fast forward to 2023, and we're all losing our minds over ChatGPT and friends—billion-dollar AI systems built on Python, a language that would make your CPU cry if you asked it to calculate 2+2 in less than half a second. The cosmic joke is that we've gone from programming AI in languages designed to be "Beginner's All-purpose" to building world-changing models with a language where indentation errors can crash your entire system. Somewhere, this book's author is either laughing hysterically or weeping uncontrollably.

Oh. My. God. That moment when your code produces a bug so SPECTACULARLY WEIRD that not even the almighty Google or ChatGPT can comprehend your suffering! 😭 You're just sitting there, staring at your monitor with that exact Mike Wazowski face, completely dead inside because you've created a glitch so unique it might as well be your tragic superpower. It's like you've discovered a new species of error that science isn't ready for. Congratulations, you broke programming in a way no one has ever broken it before! Your bug is basically the hipster of software errors - it's too obscure for mainstream debugging tools.

LinkedIn has become a parody of itself where everyone's a "thought leader" with 47 job titles but zero actual employment. You've got people listing "AI Enthusiast" and "GenAI Evangelist" like it's a real credential, throwing in "Prompt Engineer" because they once asked ChatGPT to write them a cover letter. The best part? "LinkedIn Top Voice (according to me)" and ending with "Father and son" as if that's a professional qualification. Nothing screams "hire me" quite like having more AWS certifications than job offers. We've all seen these profiles—the ones where every buzzword from the last tech conference got crammed into a bio, but the employment status tells the real story. Pro tip: If your title collection is longer than your actual work experience, the algorithm might be the only thing impressed.