Prompting Memes

Putting on glasses to see the difference between "AI Engineer" and "OpenAI-API-to-product-connector" is the most savage reality check of 2023. You're not architecting neural networks—you're just paying $0.002 per token to have ChatGPT write your code while you add water to your ramen. The modern equivalent of "I know HTML" in 1999 is "I'm an AI Engineer" in 2023. Truth hurts, doesn't it?

The future of software development just got flipped upside down! Someone's bragging about an "open-source" project where an LLM wrote 100% of the code, and another dev hits back with the perfect mic drop: "code is cheap, show me the talk." It's the 2025 version of "talk is cheap, show me the code" – but in our AI-saturated future, the valuable part isn't the code anymore (any model can spit that out), it's the human reasoning, design decisions, and architectural thinking behind it. The real engineering is now in the prompts. We've gone full circle – from documentation being an afterthought to becoming the actual product!

Junior developers turning their heads away from perfectly good documentation and help resources to stare longingly at the siren call of ChatGPT with half-baked prompts. The eternal struggle of tech leads everywhere - watching their team ignore centuries of accumulated wisdom in favor of asking an AI "how 2 center div plz?" and then implementing whatever hallucinated garbage it spits out. The documentation might as well be written in invisible ink at this point.

Remember when we used to write our own algorithms? Now we're just watching ChatGPT and Deepseek haul our careers up the mountain while we take a nap in the sleeping bag of obsolescence. And the worst part? We have the audacity to brag about our "productivity" like we actually did something impressive. "Look how far I climbed" – yeah buddy, you typed a prompt and took a coffee break while the AI did all the heavy lifting. The only muscle you've exercised is your index finger hitting Ctrl+V.

The generational divide in tech has never been more savage! Old-timer dev with his magnificent beard is schooling these youngsters about the ancient art of coding without AI assistance. “ChatGPT? When I was your age I had to write my own code” hits different in 2024 when half of us are just prompt engineers now. It's like bragging about churning your own butter or hunting woolly mammoths. The irony? That senior probably copy-pasted from StackOverflow anyway. The tech cycle continues—today's juniors will someday lecture about the primitive days of having to type prompts instead of just thinking them.