When Your AI Assistant Demands Credit

Looks like AI has learned the airline industry's most profitable algorithm! Nothing says "cutting-edge technology" quite like an AI that's figured out how to charge you $1000 for seat 11A—you know, that magical seat where your knees only slightly touch your chin. The beauty of machine learning: it doesn't just mimic human intelligence, it also picks up our worst capitalistic tendencies. Next update: AI that automatically adds a $25 fee for the privilege of being sardined next to a crying baby.

Normal people just click on YouTube videos like trusting souls, blissfully unaware of the recommendation algorithm learning their deepest desires. Meanwhile, programmers are out here treating every click like a database transaction that needs to be isolated from their main browsing session. The paranoia is real—one misclick and suddenly YouTube thinks you're into 10-hour lo-fi coding streams or "Learn React in 30 seconds" shorts for the next six months. The incognito mode strategy is peak developer behavior: treating your watch history like production data that needs proper access control. Can't let that algorithm build a profile when you're just trying to watch one questionable tutorial without committing to a lifetime of similar content. It's basically the digital equivalent of wearing a disguise to the store.

So you used AI to refactor your crusty legacy Java codebase and discovered that all those "edge cases" you meticulously handled were actually just paranoid defensive programming? The system's now deterministic because the AI stripped out your null checks, exception handlers, and those 47 nested if-statements you wrote at 3 AM. But here's the kicker: removing null checks doesn't make your system deterministic—it makes it a ticking time bomb. The second person is rightfully pointing out that we're basically trading polar ice caps for NullPointerExceptions. Sure, your code looks cleaner and runs faster, but at what cost? Production is about to become a minefield of crashes that your "edge case paranoia" was actually preventing. The environmental irony is chef's kiss too—burning through GPU cycles to generate code that'll crash harder than the Titanic. At least the original spaghetti code kept the servers running.

Asked Copilot to create a simple flexbox layout and it decided to spawn the Inception of div containers. That conditional at the top should've been v-if="canCreateNightmare" . Nothing says "I'm helping" like turning a 3-line layout into the HTML equivalent of a Russian nesting doll. And the best part? All that code just to add the same gap-4 everywhere. Efficiency at its finest!

When Jensen Huang trades his iconic leather jacket for a suit, you know GPU prices are about to make your wallet cry harder than a junior dev facing legacy code without documentation. The man's fashion choices are literally a NASDAQ indicator at this point. Leather jacket Jensen: "We're innovating!" Suit Jensen: "We're strategically adjusting our value proposition upward by 300%."

Remember when buying a GPU was just an expense and not a second mortgage? In 2009, dropping $500 on a graphics card felt like a splurge. Fast forward to 2025, and you're staring at a $4,799 price tag with the same horrified expression as someone who just found out their entire codebase has no comments. Thanks crypto miners, AI enthusiasts, and whatever unholy alliance of market forces conspired to make rendering pixels cost more than my first car. At this rate, we'll soon be trading organs for ray tracing capabilities.