You Never Know What Politeness Costs

Ah, the classic "stay in your lane" principle taken to its logical conclusion! When someone who knows nothing about cars or rockets starts pontificating about software, it's like watching a toddler try to explain quantum physics. Every developer has that moment of clarity when a non-technical person with a god complex starts explaining how "AI just needs more if-else statements" or how "coding is just typing." The beautiful irony is that software is the one field where we can actually verify someone's genius (or lack thereof) with a simple code review. Suddenly all those "genius" credentials start looking like a Stack Overflow copy-paste job with syntax errors.

That awkward moment when your CTO realizes the legal implications of AI-generated code and suddenly wants attribution. Developers who've been copy-pasting from ChatGPT for months are now sweating profusely. Nothing says "professional software development" quite like frantically ctrl+F-ing through your codebase to figure out which parts you actually wrote versus which parts you prompted an AI to hallucinate. The best part? Nobody actually knows where liability falls, so we're all just adding comments and praying we don't get sued into oblivion.

When every single AI tool bombards you with the same "What do you want to build today?" prompt for the 47th time. Sure, I'll build a blockchain-based social network for cats with AR integration in 0.2 seconds! The rage is real when these no-code platforms promise to turn your napkin sketch into a production-ready app while actual developers are busy fighting dependency hell and merge conflicts. That "build your app in seconds" promise hits different after spending 3 hours configuring webpack.

Behold, the evolution of AI priorities! First panel: "AI coding for me so I can do my laundry" gets a hard pass. Second panel: "AI doing my laundry so I can code" receives enthusiastic approval. It's the perfect inversion of expectations. Instead of using cutting-edge technology to avoid the noble pursuit of programming, true developers want AI to handle mundane chores so they can spend more time doing what they actually love - staring at a screen wondering why that semicolon is breaking everything. The future isn't AI replacing programmers; it's AI folding your underwear while you debug in peace. Now THAT'S progress.

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Corporate tech in a nutshell. Some executive burns through millions on AI "innovations" that are basically expensive tech demos destined for the graveyard. Meanwhile, the kid who'll inherit this mess someday is already recognizing the corporate cycle of wasted resources. The real kicker? Those hundreds of proof-of-concepts probably could've been one solid product if someone had just said "no" to the next shiny AI buzzword. But that wouldn't look good on the quarterly innovation report, would it?