Gentlemen A Short View Back To The Past

The corporate AI hype cycle in four acts: panic about being replaced, bragging about productivity gains, going full send on AI doing everything, then quietly backing out when the bill arrives. Companies went from "AI will replace all of you" to "AI makes us 10x faster" to "let's fire all the humans" to "wait, this costs HOW much per month?" faster than you can say "token limit exceeded." The clown makeup progression is chef's kiss here. Turns out when AI is writing 100% of your code, you're also debugging 100% of AI hallucinations, paying 100% more for compute, and understanding 0% of what's actually happening in production. Nothing says "revolutionary technology" like canceling it because your CFO saw the invoice.

Content WellPaidGeek WellPaidGeek Job specs be like: You need JavaScript React Redux Node Mongo E2E testing Docker Kubernetes AWS And I'm like: "You need to be paying me 3 salaries because that's 3 jobs" 1:01 AM Aug 18, 2019 Buffer

Content The Self Taught "Serious" Programmer Starter Kit "Just learn assemblv" What the hell is a proof? "bro, you don't need math" Has zero professional experience Lacks basic computer architecture fundamentals despite praising its importance Very active in r/_programming Over emphasizes the importance of code editors and sneers at IDEs made with mematie

So GitHub was basically rock-solid for years until Microsoft acquired them in 2018, and suddenly the uptime chart looks like my heart rate monitor during a production deployment. That vertical line marking the acquisition is doing some heavy lifting here—it's literally the moment everything went from "five nines" to "five why's." The green line (pre-Microsoft) is flatter than a junior dev's learning curve, while the post-acquisition rainbow spaghetti of red and yellow is giving major "we migrated to Azure" vibes. Nothing says enterprise acquisition quite like turning a stable platform into a reliability roulette wheel. Fun fact: "Microslop" has been a beloved nickname in tech circles since the 90s, but charts like these keep it eternally relevant. At least they're consistent at being inconsistent.

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The entire internet is basically a Jenga tower held together by Linux, DNS maintained by unpaid heroes, Cloudflare and AWS keeping the lights on, WordPress/PHP doing the heavy lifting, and somewhere up top there's an angry bird representing whatever chaos Microsoft is currently unleashing. Oh, and AI? Yeah, that's just duct-taped to the side because why not. The real kicker is that this precarious house of cards is literally what runs banking, healthcare, governments, and your cat video streaming service. Sleep tight knowing that one misconfigured DNS entry or a burned-out open source maintainer could bring down civilization as we know it. But hey, at least the foundation is solid... right?