Web Scale But At What Cost

Content Before Deep Learning THE 1 PROGRAMMER EXCUSE FOR LEGITIMATELY SLACKING OFF: "MY CODE'S COMPILING." HEY! GET BACK TO WORK! COMPILING! OH. CARRY ON With Deep Learning THE 7 DATA SCIENTIST EXCUSE FOR LEGITIMATELY SLACKING OFF: "MY MODEL'S TRAINING" HEY! GET BACK TO WORK! cere TRAINING OH. CARRY ON With Cloud Computing THE 2 DATA SCIENTIST EXCUSE FOR LEGITIMATELY SLACKING OFF: "My compute cluster is starting" HEY! GET BACK TO WORK! Starting compute session OH. CARRY ON

The internet isn't some magical cloud floating in the ether—it's a rickety tower of services precariously balanced on AWS and Cloudflare. And what's holding it all together? A single underwater cable that looks like it could be severed by a curious fish with an existential crisis. One hungry shark away from global digital apocalypse. The next time your boss asks "why is the website down?" just point to this image and say "a tuna had indigestion near Singapore."

You spend years learning design patterns, data structures, algorithms, and architectural paradigms. You master REST, GraphQL, microservices, event-driven systems. You debate tabs vs spaces with religious fervor. Then one day you realize your entire career boils down to: take data from point A, send it to point B via HTTP. That's it. That's the whole job. Just fancy plumbing with extra steps and a lot of YAML files. The "always has been" meme format hits different when you realize the astronaut with the gun represents your senior dev who's been trying to tell you this for years while you were busy overengineering everything with 47 microservices.

The classic corporate bait-and-switch! Manager gleefully announces "no more daily standups" like he's bestowing a gift from the heavens, only to reveal the true horror: writing detailed Slack messages every morning instead. The final panels show the developers' brilliant malicious compliance—using ChatGPT to auto-generate those meaningless status updates. This is peak modern workplace evolution: replacing a 15-minute meeting with an hour of typing, then automating away the busywork with AI. The circle of corporate life is complete. The manager thinks he's won, but the devs are playing 4D chess while he's still figuring out how to open Excel.

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