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Start-Up Be Like: The AI Smoke And Mirrors Show
AI Programming
13 days ago 58.8K 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.

The Perfect Developer Alibi
AI Agile Programming
1 month ago 81.0K views 0 shares
The Perfect Developer Alibi
The perfect excuse has finally arrived in the AI era. Just tell your manager "my code's generating" while Claude or GPT does the heavy lifting, and suddenly you're not scrolling Reddit—you're "waiting for computational processes to complete." Works every time. The best part? When the code finally arrives, you can just claim you wrote it and collect those sweet, sweet productivity points. Modern problems require modern solutions.

Auth Is Auth
Security Webdev Programming Backend
2 months ago 120.0K views 0 shares
Auth Is Auth
The eternal comedy of our industry: Manager wants a feature for "authorized paying users" but tells dev to "implement authentication." Dev with actual security knowledge asks the critical question – authentication or authorization? – only to be met with blank stares and "There's a difference?" For the uninitiated (and apparently the manager): Authentication is proving you are who you say you are (login/password). Authorization is determining what you're allowed to do once identified. The final panel showing the desperate Google search is the universal developer coping mechanism after 10 years of explaining this distinction to people who'll forget it by the next sprint planning.