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How About You Shut Up

How About You Shut Up
Congratulations! You've been selected to experience the 47th AI assistant that'll revolutionize your workflow this week! Companies are sprinting to slap "AI" on literally anything with an if-statement while developers are increasingly immune to the hype. We've reached the point where hearing "our revolutionary AI assistant" triggers the same response as getting another LinkedIn message from a recruiter who "noticed your impressive experience." The mute button has never looked so appealing.

Name The Game You Just Couldn't Get Into

Name The Game You Just Couldn't Get Into
The eternal struggle of the contrarian developer! Just like Squidward looking disappointed at that treasure chest, we've all installed some hyped framework or language that everyone raves about, only to stare at our IDE thinking "...this is it?" Whether it's React when you're a Vue person, Rust when you prefer Go, or trying to love TypeScript when you secretly miss the chaos of vanilla JS - that feeling of "am I broken for not enjoying this?" hits hard. The real treasure was the technical debt we accumulated along the way!

Get Perceived Gen AI Value

Get Perceived Gen AI Value
The classic Schrodinger's AI paradox! That metronome perfectly captures the bipolar relationship developers have with generative AI. One minute you're watching it hallucinate that Python has a print_slowly() function, the next it's writing a perfectly optimized algorithm you couldn't dream up in a week of Red Bull-fueled coding sessions. The cognitive dissonance is real - simultaneously believing it's both useless garbage AND the technology that's going to automate us all into unemployment. The needle just violently swings between "why did I prompt this thing for 20 minutes when I could've coded it myself in 5?" and "holy recursive function Batman, it just solved my impossible edge case!"

Reality Is Often Disappointing

Reality Is Often Disappointing
Putting on glasses to transform from "LLM Engineer" to "Knows about openai, anthropic and google-genai package" is peak tech industry smoke and mirrors. It's like calling yourself a "Cloud Architect" because you once deployed a WordPress site to AWS. The glasses don't add intelligence—they just help you see through the BS of your own job title. Next time someone introduces themselves as an "LLM Engineer," ask them if they can actually explain a transformer architecture or if they just know how to copy-paste API keys.

Stop Doing Vibe Coding

Stop Doing Vibe Coding
The grumpy tech veteran's manifesto has arrived! This is basically what happens when someone who's written actual production code for a decade watches the latest batch of "I built a startup with no-code tools and vibes" TikToks. The screenshots are pure gold - one poor soul storing passwords in a CSV file (security professionals just felt a disturbance in the force), while another "SaaS founder" is shocked that people are actually using their API in ways they didn't anticipate. Revolutionary! And that emoji-based developer bio at the bottom? Chef's kiss. Nothing says "I definitely know what I'm doing" like introducing yourself with three random tech logos instead of, you know, actual skills. Ten years ago we called these people "script kiddies." Now they're "founders" with 50K Twitter followers explaining why your engineering team is doing it wrong.

HTMX Supremacy Gang

HTMX Supremacy Gang
Ah, the eternal tech cycle. A new library emerges and suddenly everyone's ready to toss their 300MB node_modules folder into the trash. HTMX promises the revolutionary concept of *checks notes* using HTML attributes to do AJAX. Meanwhile, React developers who've spent years mastering component lifecycles are quietly updating their résumés while muttering "it's just a phase." The full stack devs are playing both sides so they always come out on top. Classic framework warfare where the only winners are the people writing Medium articles about "Why I Switched From X to Y and Increased Performance by 9000%."

Say "Build Your App In Seconds" One More Time

Say "Build Your App In Seconds" One More Time
When every single AI tool bombards you with the same "What do you want to build today?" prompt for the 47th time. Sure, I'll build a blockchain-based social network for cats with AR integration in 0.2 seconds! The rage is real when these no-code platforms promise to turn your napkin sketch into a production-ready app while actual developers are busy fighting dependency hell and merge conflicts. That "build your app in seconds" promise hits different after spending 3 hours configuring webpack.

I Wonder What The Next Fad We Hate On Will Be

I Wonder What The Next Fad We Hate On Will Be
The tech world's circle of hate continues! First, we collectively decided Vibecoding was the enemy - you know, that annoying "just vibe with the code" approach where documentation is optional and chaos is encouraged. But wait! Look at that 3251 error code getting violently stabbed in the last panel - that's tomorrow's villain waiting to be despised. Every six months we need something new to blame for our suffering. Remember when we hated jQuery? Then MongoDB? Then microservices? Then blockchain? The cycle never ends because it's easier to hate the latest framework than admit we're building increasingly complex solutions to problems we created with our previous "revolutionary" approach.

The AI Popularity Contest

The AI Popularity Contest
The ABSOLUTE STATE of the AI industry right now! 💀 Everyone and their grandmother is lined up to worship at the altar of OpenAI and Gemini while that poor lonely soul with an actual AI startup and millions in funding sits there abandoned like the last potato chip at a party. The tech bros have spoken - if you're not backed by Silicon Valley royalty, you might as well be invisible! The crowd has made their choice and it's clearer than a syntax error on line 1. Fame trumps function, darling! That's not just capitalism, that's capitalism with ✨extra drama✨!

Rust Is Blazingly Fast (And We Won't Shut Up About It)

Rust Is Blazingly Fast (And We Won't Shut Up About It)
Nobody cares what language your backend is written in. They only care if it's fast. Yet every Rust developer seems physically incapable of describing their code without using the phrase "blazingly fast" at least 47 times per conversation. The cult-like obsession with Rust's performance is matched only by the collective eye-rolling of everyone forced to listen to another sermon about zero-cost abstractions and memory safety.

Too Afraid To Ask About LLM Benchmarks

Too Afraid To Ask About LLM Benchmarks
The AI benchmarking cult strikes again! Everyone's obsessed with those radar charts comparing Large Language Models using some bizarre "ball turning test" metric that nobody actually understands. It's just a bunch of geometric shapes that supposedly prove one model is better than another. The joke here is that these comparison charts have become so ubiquitous in AI discussions that even though they're practically meaningless to most developers, everyone nods along pretending to understand what they're looking at. Classic tech impostor syndrome - nobody wants to be the one to ask "what the heck does this actually measure?"

The AI Prophet: No Knowledge Required

The AI Prophet: No Knowledge Required
Behold, the tech prophet who ascended to startup glory without understanding a single line of code! The AI startup ecosystem in 2023 is basically just throwing bearded men in togas at venture capitalists. "What's your tech stack?" "Uhhh... vibes?" Meanwhile, actual engineers who've spent decades learning complex algorithms are watching these AI-whisperers raise millions while not knowing GPT from a hole in the ground. Silicon Valley's newest business model: look wise, say "disruption" occasionally, and let the funding rain down upon your magnificent beard. The ancient Greeks had oracles, we have AI founders who let the machines do all the thinking.