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An Agentic AI Experience

AI Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

2 days ago 155.7K views 0 shares

Ah, the pinnacle of modern tech innovation - changing a loading spinner's text and suddenly becoming an AI company. Because apparently all it takes to join the AI gold rush is making your users think your app is "thinking" instead of just, you know, fetching data from a database. This is the software equivalent of putting on glasses to look smarter. Next week they'll add rainbow colors to the spinner and become a "quantum computing startup." Venture capitalists, please form an orderly queue with your checkbooks ready.

The Turing Test: Just Change "Loading..." To "Thinking..."

AI Webdev Javascript Programming Frontend

4 days ago 103.2K views 0 shares

The Turing Test: Just Change "Loading..." To "Thinking..."

The ultimate startup pivot: change one word and suddenly you're worth 10x more to VCs. Remember when we just admitted things were loading? Now our apps are having existential crises while fetching your cat photos. Next week: "contemplating the nature of existence..." while the database query times out. Venture capital flowing in 3...2...1...

This Isn't A Bubble (It's Just Financial Magic)

AI Hardware Programming

5 days ago 107.8K views 0 shares

This Isn't A Bubble (It's Just Financial Magic)

OMG, the AUDACITY of tech bros thinking stock market fairy dust pays for ACTUAL HARDWARE! 💀 OpenAI is over here like "we'll just announce our partnership and POOF! $78 BILLION appears out of thin air to pay for your chips!" Meanwhile, AMD's sitting there wondering if these AI geniuses understand that GPUs require REAL MONEY, not vibes and press releases. The absolute financial gymnastics happening here would make Wall Street blush! "Just give us back stock that we'll magically inflate with our announcement!" HONEY, THAT'S NOT HOW COMMERCE WORKS! The dot-com bubble called from 1999 and wants its delusional business model back!

To Infinity And Buzzwords

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5 days ago 117.4K views 0 shares

HONEY, ANOTHER TECH BRO THINKS HIS AI STARTUP IS REVOLUTIONARY! 🙄 The top panel shows some delusional founder with that manic "I just discovered ChatGPT" gleam in his eyes, screaming about disrupting the entire industry. Meanwhile, the actual industry (represented by endless shelves of identical products) is just sitting there like "Sure, Jan." The industry has heard this EXACT same pitch 47,000 times this week alone and is completely unfazed by your "groundbreaking" idea that's basically just GPT with a fancy logo slapped on it. REVOLUTIONARY INDEED! *dramatically faints onto keyboard*

Instant AI Startup: Just Add Ellipses

AI Webdev Programming Frontend

9 days ago 171.5K views 1 shares

The secret ingredient to becoming an AI startup? Just rename your loading spinners! This dev brilliantly exposed the modern tech hype cycle by showing how a simple text change from "loading..." to "thinking..." instantly transforms your regular app into an "agentic AI startup." No actual AI required—just the perception of intelligence. It's the equivalent of putting racing stripes on a Honda Civic and calling it a supercar. Venture capitalists, please form an orderly queue with your checkbooks ready.

The World's Most Efficient Decision Tree

Programming AI Cloud

14 days ago 119.7K views 0 shares

The World's Most Efficient Decision Tree

The world's most efficient and accurate decision tree in computing history. While VCs throw millions at anything with "blockchain" in the pitch deck, actual engineers have known this truth for years. The 2025 update will just be the same diagram with "Do I need AI?" added, and spoiler alert - the answer is also "No." Unless you're selling to people who don't understand technology but control the budget.

Nuclear Powered Sledgehammer For A Thumbtack

AI Algorithms Programming

19 days ago 191.4K views 0 shares

Nuclear Powered Sledgehammer For A Thumbtack

The classic tech startup approach: facing a problem that could be solved with basic logic? Better throw a neural network at it! Nothing says "we're innovative" like using machine learning to make a sandwich when a simple if-else statement would do. It's like watching someone deploy a supercomputer to calculate 2+2 while wearing a "disrupting the industry" t-shirt. Venture capitalists just can't resist that sweet, sweet ML buzzword, even when the only thing being disrupted is common sense.

AI Wrappers: It's Just Trucks All The Way Down

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23 days ago 207.6K views 0 shares

AI Wrappers: It's Just Trucks All The Way Down

The perfect metaphor for modern AI "innovation" doesn't exi— What we're seeing here is the software development equivalent of a Russian nesting doll. A truck containing a van containing... another vehicle. Just like how 90% of "groundbreaking AI startups" are just wrappers around wrappers around OpenAI's API. This is what happens when your entire business model is "Let's add a thin layer of abstraction over someone else's product and call it revolutionary." Next funding round: $50 million for a truck that contains a truck that contains a truck.

Nuclear-Powered Sledgehammer For A Thumbtack

AI Programming Backend

24 days ago 186.2K views 0 shares

The absolute TRAGEDY of modern tech startups! 😭 Why solve a problem with three lines of code when you can unleash a neural network that requires 8 GPUs and a small power plant to run? It's like watching someone use a nuclear-powered sledgehammer to hang a picture frame. These startups are out here pitching to VCs: "We've revolutionized sandwich making with our proprietary AI that predicts optimal mayo distribution patterns!" Meanwhile, an if-statement could've done the job perfectly fine. The venture capital money must flow, darling! 💸

Quickly Made AI Wrappers Everywhere

AI Webdev Android Ios Programming

29 days ago 256.8K views 0 shares

Ah yes, the great AI revolution. Step 1: Take existing app. Step 2: Slap on a swirly logo with some hexagons. Step 3: Add "AI" somewhere. Step 4: Profit. Remember when we used to actually code things? Now we just prompt an LLM and hope it doesn't hallucinate our database credentials into a public repo. The modern equivalent of "just add blockchain" from 2017, except this time with more venture capital and fewer functioning products.

The Buzzword Bingo Startup Generator

Programming Cloud

29 days ago 230.5K views 0 shares

Ah, the classic startup pitch generator has evolved! This tweet perfectly captures the absurdity of modern tech startup descriptions that string together random popular platforms without any actual substance. "The Airbnb of cursor of Notion for Waymo" is basically tech buzzword soup that means absolutely nothing but somehow still gets 100K impressions. For the uninitiated: Airbnb (rental marketplace) + Notion (productivity tool) + Waymo (self-driving cars) = a completely nonsensical product that would probably still get funded in this economy. It's the startup equivalent of throwing darts at a board of tech company names and calling it "innovation."

Sure Thing Bob: AI's Empty Promises

AI Devops Programming Debugging Frontend

1 month ago 248.6K views 0 shares

Every VC pitch deck in 2023 summarized in one image. Those "build a full app in hours" AI DevAgent demos always skip the part where you spend three days debugging why your database connection keeps timing out or why CSS decided today was the day it would ignore gravity. Anyone who's shipped actual production code knows that "within hours" means "within hours... plus several weeks of fixing edge cases that the AI completely overlooked."

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