Who Needs Algorithms If You Have AI

Documentation: *exists* Developers: *immediately pull out the "I-don't-care-inator"* Let's be honest—reading documentation is like flossing. We all know we should do it, but somehow we'd rather blast it into oblivion and ask ChatGPT to explain that obscure method in five words or less. Ten years of experience has taught me that the time saved skipping docs is always paid back with interest during 3 AM debugging sessions. Yet here we are, finger hovering over the ChatGPT tab, ready to type "how to center a div" for the 500th time.

When you run a local AI model but it's having an identity crisis. The DeepSeek model introduces itself as GPT-4, then immediately changes its story to being "DeepSeek R1" in the next message. It's like catching your date using someone else's profile pic, then frantically backpedaling when called out. Trust issues with AI: unlocked.

ChatGPT out here killing the comedy industry by explaining its own jokes. The irony of asking for a joke that's "hard to get at first" and then immediately getting a complete breakdown of the punchline is just *chef's kiss*. Stand-up comedians spend years perfecting delivery and timing, meanwhile AI is like "here's the joke AND a detailed explanation of why you should find it funny." Next up: ChatGPT explains why explaining jokes makes them less funny.

Sure, AI can build your app in 5 minutes instead of 5 hours, but have fun debugging that spaghetti junction of code! The left shows a nice, simple railway track—straightforward code built without AI. Clean, predictable, gets you from A to B. The right? That's your AI-generated "masterpiece"—a chaotic mess of intersecting tracks going in seventeen different directions at once. Your app might be built faster, but good luck figuring out which track leads where when everything crashes. It's like asking a hyperactive octopus to organize your closet. Speed isn't everything when you're spending the next month untangling what your AI "helper" thought was a brilliant solution!

The true superpower of developers isn't writing code—it's surviving vendor hell. While everyone's panicking about AI taking our jobs, they're forgetting the eternal constant of tech: third-party vendors with documentation that's either fantasy fiction or written by someone who never used their own product. Those five desperate emails you sent last week? Still unread. That support ticket from last month? "Under investigation." Meanwhile your PM is wondering why that "simple integration" is taking so long. Good luck replacing us with AI when even humans can't figure out what the hell your API is supposed to do.

Just sitting back with my popcorn watching the AI hype train derail in slow motion. All these devs who pivoted their entire careers to "prompt engineering" are about to discover what us old-timers already know - there's no shortcut to understanding the fundamentals. When the hallucinations pile up and the VC money dries out, guess who'll be debugging the mess? The same people who've been writing actual code for decades. Munching carrots while watching careers burn is my new hobby.