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The Prompt
Windows AI Microsoft
3 days ago 229.3K views 1 shares
The Prompt
Microsoft's vision of the future: where asking the AI to open Calculator results in it removing the Calculator app entirely, giving you "probabilistic mathematical estimates" instead, and then offering to create a PowerPoint about the history of addition. Because why would you want deterministic results from a calculator when you could get an answer that's "likely between 3 and 5, with high confidence it's approximately 4"? The user just wants to do basic arithmetic, but Windows 12's AI-first approach has decided that legacy apps like Calculator need to go. The AI even admits "mathematical reasoning isn't my core strength" while trying to handle 2+2. That's like hiring a chef who can't boil water but promises to write you a thesis on the thermodynamics of pasta cooking. The escalation from "streamlined OS with AI integration" to "we deleted your apps and replaced them with a chatbot that hallucinates math" perfectly captures every developer's nightmare about over-engineered solutions. Sometimes you just need a calculator, not a probabilistic language model with an inferiority complex about arithmetic.

Chat Am I Acing This CS Final Or What
Programming Webdev Javascript Frontend
15 days ago 479.9K views 1 shares
Chat Am I Acing This CS Final Or What
Someone built a calculator app that displays "hello world" in the output and shows "2+2" as the calculation. You know, because every CS student's journey starts with printing "hello world" and ends with... still printing "hello world" but with extra steps and a UI framework. The calculator doesn't even pretend to calculate anything. It's just hardcoded to show the sacred greeting regardless of what math you're attempting. Pretty much sums up that final project you threw together at 3 AM the night before it's due—looks functional from a distance, actually does nothing useful, but hey, it compiles and displays text on screen. Professor gives you a B- for effort. The real flex is having parentheses buttons on a calculator that only outputs "hello world". That's some next-level commitment to the bit.

What Is Happening
AI Math Programming
1 month ago 256.6K views 0 shares
What Is Happening
Someone really said "let's use GPT-5.2 to power a calculator" and thought that was a good idea. You know, because apparently basic arithmetic needs a multi-billion parameter language model that was trained on the entire internet. It's like hiring a neurosurgeon to put on a band-aid. The calculator probably responds to "2+2" with a 500-word essay on the philosophical implications of addition before reluctantly spitting out "4". Meanwhile, your $2 Casio from 1987 is sitting there doing the same job in 0.0001 seconds while running on a solar cell the size of a postage stamp. But sure, let's burn through enough GPU cycles to power a small town so we can calculate a tip at dinner. Innovation.

Calculator And Me
Git Webdev Programming
1 month ago 184.7K views 0 shares
Calculator And Me
The duality of every developer's GitHub profile. You fork these magnificent, architecturally complex repositories with thousands of stars—beautifully crafted frameworks, intricate libraries, sophisticated tools that took teams years to build. Meanwhile, your own repos? A calculator app. Maybe a to-do list if you're feeling ambitious. That minimalist white cube perfectly captures the stark simplicity of "yet another basic project" we all have gathering digital dust in our profiles. The contrast hits different when you realize you've forked React, TensorFlow, and the Linux kernel, but your pinned repositories are literally just arithmetic operations wrapped in a GUI. We're all out here pretending to be contributors to enterprise-grade software while our actual output is "calculator-app-final-v2-ACTUALLY-FINAL."

More Like Memory Drain
Apple Docker MacOS Programming Debugging
1 month ago 315.7K views 1 shares
More Like Memory Drain
Oh sure, Apple devs, tell me again how it's just a "small memory leak in edge cases." Meanwhile, Calculator is out here PAUSED and still consuming 90.17 GB of RAM like it's trying to calculate the exact number of ways I've been betrayed by my IDE. IntelliJ IDEA is also paused and casually munching on 4.86 GB because apparently even when it's sleeping, it dreams in memory consumption. Docker Desktop? A modest 2.67 GB. PyCharm? Another 2 GB. Clock app using 82 MB just to... tell time? The real tragedy here is that your entire system is having a full-blown existential crisis, throwing up a "Force Quit Applications" dialog like a white flag of surrender. When opening your browser history tab counts as an "edge case" that brings your Mac to its knees, maybe—JUST MAYBE—it's not so small after all. But sure, keep gaslighting us about those "edge cases" while our machines literally run out of memory just existing.

The Revolutionary AI Implementation
AI Agile Programming
3 months ago 264.0K views 0 shares
The Revolutionary AI Implementation
When companies boast about "implementing AI," what they really mean is that the project manager discovered ChatGPT can do basic math. Revolutionary stuff! Next up: using a neural network to decide where to order lunch. The corporate world's definition of "AI implementation" is basically just replacing Excel with slightly fancier tools while claiming they're at the cutting edge of the technological revolution. Meanwhile, actual machine learning engineers are banging their heads against their keyboards.

When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis
Javascript Webdev Programming Debugging Frontend
5 months ago 303.5K views 0 shares
When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis
Somebody's calculator function clearly got confused with their first programming lesson! Instead of returning 35 (7×5), this calculator proudly outputs "Hello World" like it just graduated from Coding 101. Classic case of a variable type mismatch—calculator.js expected numbers but got existential instead. The dev probably reused that "Hello World" function they wrote 5 minutes earlier and forgot to change the return value. That's what happens when you code at 3 AM fueled by nothing but energy drinks and stackoverflow copy-pasta.

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When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis
Programming Webdev Javascript Frontend
5 months ago 327.8K views 0 shares
When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis
The calculator that prints "Hello World" instead of 35 is the perfect representation of a developer's first project. Sure, it doesn't actually calculate anything, but who cares about functionality when you've successfully made your code say something? The transition from "I'm going to build a calculator" to "Look, it prints text!" is basically the developer equivalent of planning to clean your entire house but settling for organizing one drawer and calling it a productive day. At least it doesn't throw an exception, which is already better than 90% of first projects.

When Your Calculator Identifies As A Programmer
Frontend Webdev Javascript Programming Debugging
6 months ago 260.3K views 0 shares
When Your Calculator Identifies As A Programmer
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute AUDACITY of this calculator! You input 7 × 5, expecting a boring old 35, and what do you get? "Hello World"?! SERIOUSLY?! 💀 When your first coding project is such a disaster that basic math transforms into introductory programming phrases. The calculator had ONE JOB—to calculate—but decided to have an existential crisis instead and greet the universe! This is what happens when you let your code decide its own career path without proper supervision!

Python Is Not A Solution (For Your Math Homework)
Python Math Programming Debugging
7 months ago 190.6K views 0 shares
Python Is Not A Solution (For Your Math Homework)
When you try to solve a math problem with Python and discover that programming languages aren't great at understanding algebra notation. The poor dev tried to type an actual math equation directly into the Python interpreter and got slapped with "invalid decimal literal" because Python has no idea what to do with expressions like (5a-8). Even the calculator is giving up with a syntax error! Turns out neither Python nor calculators speak "desperate student during exam" language. Maybe stick to pen and paper for this one...

Improper Error Handling Be Like
Debugging Math Programming Testing
7 months ago 229.2K views 2 shares
Improper Error Handling Be Like
THE AUDACITY! Calculator throws a syntax error, and instead of fixing the problem like a functioning adult, this person just WRITES DOWN "syntax error" in their notebook! 💀 This is the digital equivalent of your car making a weird noise so you just roll down the window and shout "WEIRD NOISE" back at it! Peak problem-solving skills right here, folks! Next time my code crashes I'm just gonna write "segmentation fault" on a Post-it and stick it to my monitor. PROBLEM SOLVED!

Don't Worry About ChatGPT, Sweetie
AI Math Programming
9 months ago 288.2K views 1 shares
Don't Worry About ChatGPT, Sweetie
Oh honey, look at these programmers having their little existential crisis over ChatGPT! Meanwhile, mathematicians are standing there like the seasoned gallows veterans they are, rolling their eyes SO HARD they can see their own brain. 💅 Calculators literally DECIMATED mathematical jobs decades ago, and these math wizards just adapted and found more complex problems to solve. But sure, programmers, keep clutching those mechanical keyboards while sobbing into your Stack Overflow bookmarks! First automation rodeo, sweetie?