What Do You Mean Other Structures

Ah, the ultimate showdown between nature and technology! Both parrots and ML algorithms babble nonsensical phrases they don't understand, but only one comes in a cute feathery package. Billion-dollar AI companies frantically trying to replicate what evolution perfected millions of years ago, and still can't match the "is adorable" checkbox. Maybe we should just train parrots to write our code instead of spending all that GPU money? At least when a parrot crashes, it just loses a few feathers instead of your entire production database.

Mom's text arrives just as our hero is deep in the functional programming rabbit hole, writing a JSON parser in Haskell with only 111 lines of code. Dating? Relationships? Sorry Mom, I'm currently in a committed relationship with monads and type safety. The irony is perfect - while Mom hopes for grandchildren, this developer is giving birth to elegant parsing algorithms instead. Who needs romance when you can spend your evenings with curried functions that never complain about your coding habits?

Back in the 60s, programmers were literally PUNCHING CODE into cards by hand! 🤯 The person in the image is holding up punch cards with the caption "COMPILERS TOOK MY JOB" - it's basically the original "robots are stealing our jobs" but for coding! Before compilers existed, humans had to manually convert code into machine-readable formats. Then BAM! Compilers showed up and were like "I got this" and an entire profession vanished faster than free pizza at a hackathon! Those punch card operators never saw it coming!

The interviewer asks for a simple array sort of just 0s, 1s, and 2s (literally the easiest sorting problem ever), and this poor soul immediately jumps to Bubble Sort—the algorithmic equivalent of using a sledgehammer to hang a picture frame. For the uninitiated, this is a classic interview problem with a O(n) solution—just count occurrences and rebuild the array! But under pressure, our brain defaults to the first sorting algorithm we learned in CS101. The interviewer's face says it all: your grandma with a walker would cross the finish line before your O(n²) bubble sort even gets halfway through. Nothing captures the interview panic spiral quite like forgetting that you're sorting just THREE UNIQUE VALUES while proposing an algorithm from the stone age of computing.

When you ask ChatGPT to write code for itself and it gives you that look . The digital equivalent of asking a chef to cook himself for dinner. The audacity of some users thinking they can just casually request the AI to create its own replacement is both hilarious and slightly terrifying. Next thing you'll be asking it to solve the halting problem while making you coffee.

The absolute AUDACITY of this developer printing an entire chess board for EACH POSSIBLE MOVE! 😱 Instead of creating a simple reusable function, this maniac is hard-coding 2.6 MILLION lines to handle every chess position! It's the programming equivalent of writing out every word in the dictionary instead of just looking it up! The poor soul who has to review this code will need therapy AND a new keyboard after smashing the current one into oblivion. Chess programming doesn't have to be your villain origin story, people!