Just Great

Content Damien Owens OwensDamien The year is 2246. Disease and hunger have been eradicated. The terraforming of Mars is complete. The symbol for Save is still a floppy disk.

THE ABSOLUTE AUDACITY of comparing AI prompt engineering to gambling is SENDING ME! 💀 Both involve throwing money at a system you barely understand, desperately hoping for that magical outcome while the house (or cursor) laughs all the way to the bank. You're either wasting time tweaking slot strategies or perfecting prompts for a function that could've been written in 20 minutes. And that last row? DEVASTATING TRUTH. Nothing says "professional developer" like spending 4 hours crafting the perfect prompt only to realize you've just been playing the world's nerdiest slot machine. The difference? At least gamblers KNOW they're gambling!

Content boys teaching girls how to code boys teaching boys how to code Oh dear, oh dear. Gorgeous. You fucking donkey.

The senior developer generation humoring the Gen Z developers who won't stop evangelizing about Rust and Go. "Yes dear, memory safety is revolutionary. No, we don't need to rewrite our entire codebase that's been running fine for 15 years." Meanwhile, the production server running on a 2005 PHP script held together with duct tape and prayers continues to outperform everything else.

The duality of debugging communication! Top panel shows the proper, civilized way: precise error location. Bottom panel reveals what we actually do: frantically gesturing at pixels while our vocabulary degrades to primal pointing. It's like we spent years mastering complex programming languages only to revert to caveman communication when pair programming. "ERROR THERE! NO, THERE! LOOK WHERE I'M POINTING!" *coworker squints helplessly from across desk*

The CS grad showing up to the party like a socially awkward wizard because nobody at school taught them the real interview skills. While everyone's socializing, they're silently judging people for not grinding LeetCode. Fun fact: some companies are actually moving away from algorithm puzzles because they realized real-world programming is more about dealing with legacy code and crying in the bathroom than inverting binary trees.