Future of work Memes

The classic tech hype cycle in its natural habitat. First, AI writes 90% of code. Then AI writes 100% of code. Then reality hits and humans get paid premium wages to fix the AI's spaghetti code. Reminds me of that time we deployed an "automated" monitoring system that generated so many false alerts we had to hire three people just to monitor the monitoring system. Progress!

Ah, the corporate euphemism for "we're replacing you with ChatGPT." Nothing says "your job security is in jeopardy" quite like a cheerful poster about "vibe coding" where you just need to "embrace AI to write 95%+ of your codebase." The best part is the subtle transition from "programmer" to "product engineer" – because apparently typing prompts is engineering now. And that "10-100x productivity" claim? That's corporate speak for "we're firing 90% of you next quarter." My favorite line has to be "human taste is now more important than coding skill." Translation: we're keeping Dave from marketing because he has "good vibes" but your 15 years of backend experience? Not vibing enough, sorry. The final gut punch is in the fine print: "technical debt accumulates faster." Yeah, no kidding – that's what happens when you let AI hallucinate your entire infrastructure. But hey, at least we'll "get to MVP quickly" before the whole thing collapses!

Ah, the classic bell curve of AI anxiety. The folks at the low end of the IQ spectrum are blissfully confident they can't be replaced because they don't understand what's coming. The geniuses at the high end know they're safe because they're the ones building the AI overlords. Meanwhile, the rest of us in the middle—just smart enough to understand the threat but not brilliant enough to be irreplaceable—are sweating bullets. This is basically the tech industry's version of "ignorance is bliss" meets "knowledge is power," with the vast majority of us stuck in purgatory. Twenty years in this field and I'm still not sure if I should be learning to code better or learning to make coffee for the robots.