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My Prediction For The Upcoming Years

My Prediction For The Upcoming Years
So we mandate AI for everything, get a nice productivity spike while the AI churns out code faster than a caffeinated intern, then watch in horror as the codebase turns into an unmaintainable dumpster fire that even senior devs can't salvage. The solution? Force everyone back to manual coding for an hour a day like it's some kind of rehab program. "Touch grass" but for actual programming skills. The cycle is predictable: automate everything → forget how things work → everything breaks → mandate manual labor to remember what a for-loop is. It's like we're speedrunning the plot of WALL-E but for software development.

Drought Maxxing

Drought Maxxing
Imagine being SO confident about your job security that you're bragging about your career being "AI-proof" because you work in farming. The absolute AUDACITY! But then someone swoops in with the most devastating comeback in tech history: AI data centers are literally sucking up entire water supplies like a vampire at an all-you-can-drink buffet. Your crops? Thirsty. Your irrigation? Non-existent. Your job security? About as stable as a JavaScript framework in 2024. The irony is chef's kiss delicious. Sure, AI won't replace your farming job directly, but it'll just casually steal the ONE resource you absolutely need to farm. It's like saying "don't worry, I won't steal your car, I'll just drain all the gas stations in a 500-mile radius." The tech industry really said "if we can't automate you out of existence, we'll just dehydrate you instead." Efficiency!

Let's Go, Bois

Let's Go, Bois
Nothing says "disruptive innovation" quite like burning through billions of investor dollars with no viable business model. Bugs Bunny here, looking dapper as hell, represents every developer watching these AI startups hemorrhage cash while promising to revolutionize everything from your toaster to your tax returns. The schadenfreude is real when you've been grinding on legacy code for years while some startup with "AI-powered blockchain synergy" gets a $500M valuation and then faceplants into Chapter 11. Pour one out for the engineers who have to update their LinkedIn again.

All Hardware Companies Will Stop Making A Morbillion A Year And Go Back To Only Billions Per Year

All Hardware Companies Will Stop Making A Morbillion A Year And Go Back To Only Billions Per Year
Oh sweet summer child, thinking GPU prices will ever return to sanity. The AI gold rush has NVIDIA and friends swimming in cash like Scrooge McDuck, selling H100s for the price of a small house. Remember when you could buy a decent GPU without taking out a second mortgage? The beautiful delusion here is that once the AI bubble inevitably pops (and it will, they always do), hardware manufacturers will graciously lower their prices back to reasonable levels. Spoiler alert: they won't. They've tasted that sweet enterprise money, and consumer gamers can keep dreaming about $300 graphics cards. Fun fact: NVIDIA's data center revenue went from $3 billion in 2020 to over $47 billion in 2024. Yeah, they're definitely going back to caring about your Fortnite rig.

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So True.

So True.
The pie chart claims to show "benefits" of working in IT, but there's a hilarious discrepancy: the legend lists Salary, Wellness, Stable mental health, and Confidence for your future—yet the actual chart shows completely different proportions with red dominating everything. The joke? None of those supposed benefits actually match the reality. The massive red slice taking up nearly half the chart represents... well, nothing labeled as red in the legend. That's because what actually dominates your IT career is burnout, imposter syndrome, debugging production at 2 AM, and explaining to your family why you can't "just fix their printer." Meanwhile, those nice-sounding benefits like wellness and stable mental health are squeezed into tiny slivers that barely exist. Salary might be decent, but good luck finding that "confidence for your future" when you're frantically Googling error messages and praying your hotfix doesn't break everything. The chart is basically saying: "Sure, we have benefits on paper, but in practice? Chaos reigns supreme."

AI Native Engineer

AI Native Engineer
Ooof, the callout is brutal but fair. If your "AI-native startup" is just a wrapper around ChatGPT that falls apart without API access, then yeah, your "AI-native engineer" is probably just someone who's really good at prompt engineering and copy-pasting. The parallel here cuts deep—these folks have basically outsourced their entire skill set to LLMs. Can't write a function without asking Claude? Can't debug without feeding the entire stack trace to GPT-4? Congratulations, you're not building on AI, you're completely dependent on it. There's a difference between leveraging tools and having zero transferable skills when the API goes down.

It Meetup

It Meetup
Going to a tech meetup expecting to meet fellow queer folks, only to discover you're the only one in a sea of heteronormativity? That's the IT industry reality check nobody puts in the job description. It's like showing up to what you thought was a diverse tech community and finding out it's just another homogeneous crowd. The irony is that an industry obsessed with "innovation" and "disruption" somehow manages to maintain the same demographic composition since the '90s. At least the free pizza is usually decent.

All The Day Everyday

All The Day Everyday
The eternal paradox of the AI era: study more CS to stay relevant because AI can't replace you yet, or stop studying because AI will replace you anyway. Either way, you're still running from the same existential crisis, just with different motivations. The trash pile gets bigger regardless of which path you choose, and both lead to the same confused destination. It's like Schrödinger's career anxiety—you're simultaneously upskilling and giving up until you check LinkedIn and collapse into a state of pure panic.

The Graph Is Cyclical

The Graph Is Cyclical
So we're automating ourselves out of jobs, only to realize we need those jobs back to handle the automation we built. This is basically the tech industry's version of "what came first, the chicken or the egg?" except both are getting replaced by AI and neither of us can afford rent. The beautiful irony here is that we spent decades convincing truck drivers that robots would take their jobs, and now those same truck drivers might end up being the ones maintaining our legacy codebases while we're out there delivering Amazon packages in semi-trucks. The simulation is glitching. Plot twist: by 2036, the AI will automate truck driving again, and we'll all become coders once more. It's the circle of tech life, and it moves us all. 🦁

Modern AI Startup Stack

Modern AI Startup Stack
The entire AI startup ecosystem right here: three people pretending to install an air conditioner while standing on the corpse of their last failed venture. The "product" is just an AI-generated landing page (naturally), the actual work is being done by a Copilot subscription masquerading as innovation, and DevOps is literally the only thing holding this house of cards together. The developer just stands there watching because why write code when ChatGPT exists? The product manager provides moral support by touching the wall. Meanwhile, the "vibe coder" is doing all the heavy lifting—probably copy-pasting from Stack Overflow while the AI subscription bills rack up faster than their burn rate. That rickety platform they're standing on? Built on the ruins of their previous startup that definitely wasn't just another AI wrapper. The best part is they'll raise $10M Series A next week.

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Money-Data Grabbing Corporate Policies Do Make Them Become Like That

Money-Data Grabbing Corporate Policies Do Make Them Become Like That
Silicon Valley really said "hold my overpriced artisanal coffee" and speedran becoming the villain arc faster than you can say "pivot to AI." Meta, Apple, OpenAI, NVIDIA, and Google standing there like the Avengers of data harvesting and monopolistic practices. Remember when tech companies pretended to care about privacy and open-source ideals? Yeah, those were the days before they realized your data is worth more than gold and they could just... take it. Now they're out here training AI models on everything you've ever posted, changing terms of service like it's a daily standup, and acting shocked when people call them out. The transformation from "don't be evil" to "be evil but make it profitable" was truly spectacular to witness.

For Agents By Developers

For Agents By Developers
Stack Overflow proudly markets itself as "For developers, by developers" - a community built on the principle that developers help other developers. Fast forward to 2024, and they've launched a ChatGPT plugin called "Stack Overflow For Agents." So now AI agents are scraping the same site where developers were told their questions were duplicates and got downvoted into oblivion. The irony? The platform built by humans to help humans is now being repackaged to help the very AI that's supposed to replace them. Nothing says "we love developers" quite like monetizing their collective knowledge to train their potential replacements.