From Rubber Ducks To Robot Overlords

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The quill pen of yesterday becomes the AI assistant of today. In the original scene, Harry writes "My name is Harry Potter" and Tom Riddle's diary responds. Now it's ChatGPT introducing itself instead - completing the perfect metaphor for modern programming. Ten years ago we'd spend hours debugging regex. Now we just ask an AI to write it. Magic? Maybe. But like Tom Riddle's diary, I can't help wondering what part of our soul we're trading for this convenience. Remember when we had to actually understand how things worked? Those were dark times. Terrible, yes... but great.

Content Cycles in family tree software Asked 12 years, 7 months ago Modified 8 years, 5 months ago Viewed 286k times 1590 votes Locked. This question and its answers are locked because the question is off-topic but has historical significance. It is not currently accepting new answers or interactions. I am the developer of some family tree software (written in C and Qt). I had no problems until one of my customers mailed me a bug report. The problem is that the customer has two children with their own daughter, and, as a result, he can't use my software because of errors. Those errors are the result of my various assertions and invariants about the family graph being processed (for example, after walking a cycle, the program states that X can't be both father and grandfather of Y). How can I resolve those errors without removing all data assertions? C graph cycle assertions family-tree

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When a senior dev tells you to "just read the documentation," what they really mean is "figure out how to connect these two completely unrelated pieces with zero context and make it work somehow." The documentation is always like those LEGO instructions that skip 17 critical steps and suddenly expect you to have built a quantum computer. And yet they'll look at you like you're the problem when you can't magically deduce what goes in between.

THE AUDACITY! 😱 Developer thinks they're being sooo clever testing their API on localhost, only to have Postman drop the ultimate truth bomb: "You need the internet." GASP! The look of utter betrayal in that last panel is sending me! It's like finding out your coffee has been decaf all along. HELLO?! The whole point of localhost is that it's LOCAL! It's literally in the name! The crushing realization that your API testing tool needs internet to test something that doesn't need internet is the definition of irony wrapped in a burrito of frustration. The circle of tech life: thinking you've outsmarted the system only to be outsmarted by it. 💀