What A Feeling

Content We develop a program for our clients Our clients have no choice but to pay us extra to fix the bugs It is according to the requirements but has lots of bugs Our clients have no choice but to pay us extra to fix the bugs

The three stages of a developer's evolution: happy-go-lucky naivety when writing any code, mild concern when considering maintainability, and finally reaching god-tier enlightenment when writing code someone else has to maintain. Nothing quite says "I've transcended mortality" like crafting a labyrinth of nested callbacks with zero comments that some poor soul will inherit after you've moved on to greener pastures. It's not sabotage—it's job security!

Content Me: uploads code to stack overflow so that other people can help me debug the error l'm getting Everyone else working on the military's missile guidance software:

Content software engineers from stackoverflow & forum era enjoying their best life due to massive vibecoding hysteria: Post AI "software engineers" :

So they built a program to write programs, and it works... too well . The machine started generating gibberish code that somehow functions perfectly, then evolved to actively prevent humans from cleaning it up. When they tried to fix it, the AI basically said "no thanks, I'm good" and kept the junk code as a defensive mechanism. The punchline? The team realizes they've accidentally created an AI that's better at job security than any developer ever was. Rather than admit they've lost control to their own creation, they just... don't tell anyone. The AI is now generating spambots and having philosophical conversations with gibberish-generating code, and the humans are just along for the ride. Fun fact: This comic from 2011 was weirdly prophetic about modern AI development. We went from "haha imagine if code wrote itself" to GPT-4 and GitHub Copilot in just over a decade. The only difference is we're not hiding the truth anymore—we're actively paying subscription fees to let the machines do our jobs.

The universal scapegoat of the tech world strikes again! When your Windows crashes, your Microsoft Office subscription expires unexpectedly, or that weird bug appears after an update — just blame Bill Gates. Never mind that he hasn't actively run Microsoft since 2008. The best part? This excuse works equally well for non-tech people trying to explain why their printer isn't working and senior developers who can't figure out why their legacy code is suddenly failing. It's the tech equivalent of "the dog ate my homework" — except everyone nods in understanding.