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Revolutionary Startup Idea: Being The Middleman

1 day ago 55.6K views 0 shares

OH. MY. GOD. The absolute PEAK of startup innovation right here! 🙄 Some genius had the REVOLUTIONARY idea to... *dramatic pause*... make API calls to OpenAI. That's it. That's the entire business model! While everyone else is trying to be the "New Facebook" or "New Snapchat," this visionary is basically saying "let's be the middleman for technology that already exists and charge for it!" It's like opening a store that sells... trips to the actual store. THE AUDACITY! THE VISION! Silicon Valley investors are probably THROWING their money at this groundbreaking concept as we speak! Next week's brilliant startup: "We click buttons for you!"

This AI Only Uses 1 KB VRAM!

AI Programming Python

2 days ago 100.5K views 0 shares

Oh honey, you thought you were getting a REAL AI? *dramatic hair flip* The meme shows the BRUTAL reality of those clickbait "Build Your Own AI" tutorials! First panel: Some flashy article promising AI greatness. Second panel: The SHOCKING reveal that the "AI" is literally just three lines of code importing OpenAI and responding "hi" to everything! It's like ordering a gourmet meal and getting a microwaved hot pocket! The audacity! The deception! This is why we have trust issues in tech!

As God Intended

Networking Webdev Debugging Backend

3 days ago 82.4K views 0 shares

Oh. My. GOD! Someone's actually using the 400 status code instead of just slapping 500 on everything like a lazy barbarian! 💅 The sheer AUDACITY of this developer to actually use proper HTTP status codes! It's like watching a unicorn do calculus—RARE and BEAUTIFUL. The rest of us are over here throwing Internal Server Errors at our users like confetti while this absolute LEGEND is categorizing client errors with surgical precision. I'm not crying, YOU'RE crying! This level of API etiquette should be framed and hung in the Louvre!

The Eternal Joy Of Working Code

Backend Webdev Javascript Programming Python

7 days ago 58.8K views 0 shares

The magical feeling of watching your API work never fades, whether it's the first time or the 420th time. That childlike excitement when your code actually does what it's supposed to do? Pure wizardry. Let's be honest - we all know that first successful run is just dumb luck. By the 420th time, you're still equally thrilled because deep down you're thinking, "I have absolutely no idea why this is working and I'm afraid to touch anything." The true mark of a developer isn't building something complex - it's maintaining that same manic glee when the simplest thing works as intended.

HTTP Standards Committee Dropout's Revenge

Backend Webdev Networking Programming

10 days ago 79.8K views 0 shares

HTTP Standards Committee Dropout's Revenge

The developer who created this API documentation deserves a special place in HTTP hell. They've somehow managed to make status codes even more confusing by inventing their own bizarre numbering system. Standard HTTP has nice, clean codes like 200 (OK), 404 (Not Found), and 500 (Server Error). But this madlad decided "200 OR 1000" means success? And what's with all those 1000+ codes that read like someone's therapy session? "Room Rates field cannot be null or empty" isn't a status code—it's a passive-aggressive note from your micromanaging coworker. This is what happens when you let someone design an API after they've been rejected from the HTTP standards committee. Next they'll be telling us 418 (I'm a teapot) is too mainstream and replacing it with "2077: Brewing device self-identifies as kettle."

Tell Me You Don't Know What An API Is

Programming AI C++ Python

12 days ago 104.1K views 0 shares

SOMEONE PLEASE REVOKE THIS MAN'S DEVELOPER LICENSE IMMEDIATELY! 🚨 This tweet is the programming equivalent of saying "a hammer is just an API to nails" and "nails are an API to wood" and "wood is an API to trees." MAKE IT STOP! An API (Application Programming Interface) is a specific set of rules and protocols that allows different software applications to communicate with each other - NOT this cosmic tech ladder to the universe! The only thing this tweet proves is that if you string enough technical words together, you can sound profound while being CATASTROPHICALLY wrong. It's giving "I just discovered programming last week and now I'm having deep thoughts" energy.

Just Use Curl

Bash Networking Devops Programming Backend

13 days ago 93.3K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the eternal battle between fancy API tools and command-line purists. Postman gives you a slick UI, request history, environment variables, and team collaboration. Meanwhile, grizzled terminal veterans are just sitting there like "curl -X POST -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{\"why\":\"so_complicated\"}'" and calling it a day. After 15 years in the trenches, I've learned that sometimes the simplest tool is all you need... until your curl command spans 7 lines and you can't remember what the hell those flags do anymore.

Copilot Autocompletes An API Key

AI Security Git Programming Cloud

13 days ago 98.1K views 0 shares

That moment when GitHub Copilot helpfully suggests your private API key that you accidentally committed to a repo six months ago. Nothing like having your $5000/month AWS bill exposed by an AI that's just trying to be helpful. Security through obscurity fails again.

From Minutes To Seconds To Disaster

AI Security Devops Programming Cloud

13 days ago 86.2K views 0 shares

Left: "It took me a few minutes to make BibleGPT with custom GPT. Now? 5 seconds with Devin." Right: "Who is doubting thomas" → "Sorry, an error occurred while fetching your answer." Bottom: "It exposed my API key so I had to revoke :(" The AI dev tool pipeline in 2024: Build something in 5 seconds, deploy it in 2 seconds, expose your API keys in 1 second. Progress! This is why we can't have nice things in tech. The faster we build, the faster we leak credentials. The modern developer experience is just speedrunning security vulnerabilities.

The Ultimate API Endpoint Workaround

Programming Networking Security

15 days ago 100.5K views 0 shares

This guy just bypassed the age validation with a brilliant regex-like workaround! When most would give up at the 30 > 23 comparison, he identified that emails have no age restriction—the classic "if (rejected) { try_alternative_route(); }" pattern. It's the programming equivalent of getting a 403 Forbidden response and immediately checking if there's an unprotected API endpoint. Smooth operator found the backdoor in the authentication flow!

Love When Someone With A Business Degree Tells Me How To Do My Job

Programming Agile Debugging Frontend Backend

16 days ago 86.5K views 0 shares

Love When Someone With A Business Degree Tells Me How To Do My Job

A perfectly organized system architecture puzzle gets absolutely demolished when "business logic" enters the chat. The developer starts with a clean, modular design where everything fits together beautifully—until the MBA graduate insists on jamming their "brilliant insights" into the middle. Next thing you know, your elegant API is cracking, your data layer is held together with duct tape, and you're taking a bath with a rubber duck trying to explain why their requirements violate the laws of computer science. The duck gets it. The business major never will.

I Wanna Smack Him In The Head

Backend Devops AWS Programming StackOverflow

20 days ago 111.3K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic "I could learn your entire career in a weekend" guy meets someone who actually knows what they're talking about. Nothing quite like watching someone claim coding is "not that hard" only to get absolutely demolished by a response asking if they can build APIs, databases, and deployment infrastructure. The cherry on top is the final response: "I could learn it in 8-9 days!" Sure, buddy. And I could become a neurosurgeon by watching YouTube tutorials. The Dunning-Kruger is strong with this one. This is why senior developers drink so much coffee. It's not the code that's exhausting—it's these conversations.

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