I Introduced It Myself

OH. MY. GOD. The BRUTAL truth about our toxic relationship with AI coding assistants! 💅 We're literally gambling our productivity away with these AI slot machines! Type a vague prompt, hit "Generate" and PRAY TO THE CODING GODS that you'll get something that doesn't make your compiler have an existential crisis! "Just one more prompt, I swear this will fix it!" - me, 47 prompts later, sobbing into my energy drink while my deadline approaches at the speed of light. Meanwhile, OpenAI is cackling all the way to the bank! The absolute AUDACITY of spending 3 hours prompting for something that would take 20 minutes to code yourself. But here we are, calling ourselves "prompt engineers" like we've invented a new profession instead of admitting we're just gambling addicts in developer hoodies! 💁‍♀️

Ah, the quarterly ritual of revisiting your own code from the distant past. First comes the shock and horror. "Why would anyone write this garbage?" Then the dawning realization that you are the criminal mastermind behind this atrocity. Twenty years in this industry and I still leave cryptic comments like "fix this later" and "temporary solution" that somehow survive three product releases. The best documentation is always that moment of clarity in the fourth panel when you finally remember what sleep-deprived, deadline-haunted version of yourself thought this spaghetti nightmare was a good idea.

Content Client I found a new issue in release Idon't know, I forgot and it won't reproduce anymore No, but I need a fix by next release Me Can you give me test steps? Do you have any more information? Sure

Fixing a bug in 30 minutes? Easy peasy, disgusted face. Spending an entire workday explaining to ChatGPT what your codebase does, your business logic, and why that one legacy function from 2014 can't be touched? Chef's kiss. The irony is delicious. We've gone from "let me just fix this myself" to "let me spend 8x longer teaching an AI about all our technical debt so it can suggest the same fix I would've made anyway." Future job posting: "Senior Prompt Engineer - Must have 5+ years experience explaining code to machines that pretend to understand."

Content Client in meeting: Wow it seems your team fixed all bugs!! Manager: Yes Developer: But I wanna.. Manager: uva. krishna.meme

Ah, the infinite loop of laziness masquerading as efficiency. Two functions locked in an eternal codependency, each refusing to do its own work. isEven() just passes the buck to isOdd() with a +1 twist, while isOdd() returns the favor by calling isEven() with the same trick. Neither function actually checks anything – they just play hot potato until the stack overflows and the whole program collapses like my will to review pull requests on Friday afternoons.