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How The F*ck Did They Build Pyramids
Agile AI Devops Microsoft Programming
9 hours ago 42.4K views 0 shares
How The F*ck Did They Build Pyramids
Ancient Egyptians somehow managed to build architectural marvels without the corporate tech stack we can't seem to function without. No endless Teams meetings where everyone says "can you hear me?" No 57-slide pitch decks explaining the "stone moving paradigm." No AI that promises to optimize workflow but actually just creates more meetings about the AI. Just people dragging massive stones with pure human effort and mathematical precision. The real pyramid scheme was getting stuff done without a Slack channel dedicated to discussing the office snack selection.

Be A Real Programmer
Programming Devops Agile
3 days ago 76.6K views 0 shares
Be A Real Programmer
The corporate food chain, visualized perfectly. A boss points and yells from the cart while others pull. A leader joins the trenches and pulls alongside the team. But a programmer? That mythical creature automates the whole damn thing and pulls the cart alone while everyone else sits back and enjoys the ride. The face says it all - seething with quiet rage and muttering about how they could've just used Kubernetes for this.

The Great AI Productivity Trap
AI Devops Agile Programming
4 days ago 120.3K views 0 shares
The Great AI Productivity Trap
The duality of corporate tech meetings in its purest form! In panel one, developers eagerly raise their hands for cool productivity tools like auto-complete and "vibe coding" (which I'm assuming is just coding while listening to lo-fi beats). But the second panel reveals the real management agenda - using those same tools as an excuse to slash the workforce and squeeze more work from fewer devs. Classic bait-and-switch! Notice how everyone's hands mysteriously disappeared faster than semicolons in Python code. The room went from "YAAAS AI PAIR PROGRAMMING!" to "wait, did he just say we're all getting fired?" in 0.2 milliseconds.

Time For Summer Vacation I Guess
Programming Agile
6 days ago 100.0K views 0 shares
Time For Summer Vacation I Guess
The SHEER HORROR of discovering HR is lurking on your boss call! One second you're casually trash-talking the codebase, and the next you're frantically backpedaling like your career depends on it—BECAUSE IT DOES! That instant transformation from "let me tell you what's wrong with everything" to "I've always been PASSIONATE about our company values" happens faster than a production server crashing after you push untested code. The corporate equivalent of stepping on a LEGO at 3 AM—unexpected, painful, and leaves you questioning all your life choices! 💀

Hard To Convince
AI Algorithms Programming
9 days ago 79.6K views 0 shares
Hard To Convince
The classic "I know better than the buzzwords" conversation that happens in every tech company these days. You're just trying to be the voice of reason suggesting a simple algorithmic solution, but management's been reading too many LinkedIn posts about AI revolutionizing everything. That "how dare you?" reaction is what happens when you threaten someone's chance to put "AI-powered solution" on their quarterly achievements slide. Ten years in the industry and I've learned questioning the AI hype is basically career suicide at this point.

Security Analysts: Paid To Be Ignored
Security Devops Programming Debugging
9 days ago 77.8K views 0 shares
Security Analysts: Paid To Be Ignored
The security industry in a nutshell, folks. You hire "analysts" who confirm they're analysts, confirm they get paid to analyze, but when they actually find something—like a Log4j vulnerability that needs immediate patching—management's response is "Nah, P0 incident? That's an EOD problem." Nothing quite like hiring security experts only to ignore their expertise when it requires actual work. The classic corporate cycle: pay for security, ignore security recommendations, wonder why you got breached. Then blame the security team who warned you six months ago. For the uninitiated, Log4j was that delightful little vulnerability from 2021 that had security teams working through Christmas while executives were sipping eggnog and asking "can't we just deal with it after the holidays?"

Just To Make You Feel Better...
Hardware AI Programming
9 days ago 110.1K views 0 shares
Just To Make You Feel Better...
Corporate: "Can you spot the difference between a gold bar and a high-end GPU?" Developers in 2024: "They're the same picture." With GPUs costing as much as precious metals these days, training that fancy ML model might require a second mortgage. Remember when we just worried about RAM prices? Those were simpler times.

VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Programming Microsoft Databases Backend
21 days ago 197.0K views 0 shares
VBA Has No Right To Be That Powerful
Nothing humbles a CS graduate with 6 years of experience and a GitHub full of microservices quite like watching Brenda from Accounting unleash her Excel VBA sorcery. While you're debating which framework to use, she's built an entire ERP system with macros and formulas that somehow never breaks. Her Excel sheets communicate better than your team's Slack channel. The funniest part? She learned it all from a weekend workshop in 2003 and calls it "just a little spreadsheet trick."

Multilayer Perceptron: It Just Says 4
AI Algorithms Math Programming
26 days ago 92.1K views 0 shares
Multilayer Perceptron: It Just Says 4
The perfect visualization of AI conversations between a data scientist and a manager. Left guy: "Here's our multilayer perceptron neural network with input, hidden, and output layers." Manager: "What's it do?" Data scientist: "It outputs a 4." Manager: "That's it? That's dumb as hell." Meanwhile, the beautiful 3D function surface plot that actually represents complex mathematical transformations sits there being completely unappreciated. It's the classic "I spent 3 weeks optimizing this model and all my boss cares about is if it makes the line go up."

We Spared No Expense (Except On I.T. Staff)
Programming Networking Devops Debugging
26 days ago 101.9K views 0 shares
We Spared No Expense (Except On I.T. Staff)
The classic Jurassic Park quote gets a corporate tech twist! While companies boast about investing in cutting-edge infrastructure and fancy office perks, they somehow always manage to run their entire operation on a skeleton crew of underpaid IT folks. One sysadmin desperately trying to maintain 200+ servers while management wonders why the network keeps going down. "Have you tried turning it off and on again?" echoes through the building as the lone IT person contemplates whether the dinosaurs had it easier than dealing with printer issues for the 5th time today.

Start-Up Be Like: The AI Smoke And Mirrors Show
AI Programming
27 days ago 70.4K views 0 shares
Start-Up Be Like: The AI Smoke And Mirrors Show
The circle of startup AI innovation: Manager asks impossible question → Developer frantically asks ChatGPT → Developer presents ChatGPT's answer as their own work → Manager impressed → Company secures another round of funding. Let's be honest, half the "AI strategy" presentations in boardrooms right now are just regurgitated LLM outputs with fancy transitions. The real innovation is how quickly we've normalized outsourcing our thinking to robots while maintaining our poker faces.

Spoke My Mind At Work... Now Updating My Résumé
Gamedev Programming
29 days ago 82.4K views 0 shares
Spoke My Mind At Work... Now Updating My Résumé
OH. MY. GOD. The absolute CAREER SUICIDE happening in real time! 💀 Boss: "Our game revenue is crashing!" Coworkers: *give safe corporate answers like "COVID-19" and "Market Saturation"* This poor dev with a DEATH WISH: "We treat players like wallets, not gamers." And just like that, homeboy's LinkedIn status changed to "OPEN TO WORK" faster than you can say "microtransaction." That resume update is happening at the speed of light while the boss's face turns the color of a production server error!