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Growing Up Is Realising Tony Was A Vibe Coder
Programming Debugging
7 hours ago 70.4K views 0 shares
Growing Up Is Realising Tony Was A Vibe Coder
Remember when you thought coding was going to be like Tony Stark—holographic interfaces, AI assistants, and solving world problems with a few elegant keystrokes? Then reality hit: you're just staring at a terminal for 8 hours trying to figure out why your code works on localhost but crashes in production. The vibe coder fantasy dies hard when you realize most of your superhero moments involve Googling the same error message for the fifth time this week.

Growing Up Is Realizing Tony Was A Vibe Coder
Programming Webdev Debugging Frontend
18 hours ago 65.1K views 0 shares
Growing Up Is Realizing Tony Was A Vibe Coder
Remember when you thought coding was all about building cool holographic interfaces like Tony Stark? Then reality hit and you found yourself debugging a production issue at midnight because someone forgot to escape a single quote in a SQL query. The gap between the fantasy of being a tech genius and the reality of staring at a terminal for 8 hours straight is the true origin story of every senior developer's cynicism.

Chat Gpt Is At The Peak Of The Hype Cycle
AI Programming
2 months ago 92.5K views 1 shares
Chat Gpt Is At The Peak Of The Hype Cycle
Ah, the Gartner Hype Cycle - tech's emotional rollercoaster! Right now we're all riding that sweet, sweet ChatGPT high at "Peak of Inflated Expectations" where everyone thinks AI will solve everything from debugging your code to fixing your love life. Just wait for that "Trough of Disillusionment" when we realize it still can't figure out why your code works in dev but crashes in production. The real fun begins when some manager inevitably says "Let's use AI to rewrite our entire codebase!" and then blames the junior dev when it hallucinates semicolons in Python.