Nobody Knows What They Are Doing Anymore

The question "what are you writing in?" used to have a straightforward answer—Java for enterprise, JavaScript for web, maybe C++ if you were doing systems work. But now? WebAssembly is running in browsers, Rust is eating everything, Go is handling backend services, and Python somehow does both AI and scripting. The joke hits because even developers themselves can't keep up with the tech stack explosion. When someone asks what you're coding in, you might genuinely need to consult your "agent" (whether that's your AI coding assistant, your manager, or literally just checking which terminal tab you're in). The response "will have to ask my agent" is both absurd and relatable—we've reached peak abstraction where developers are so removed from the metal that they're not even sure what language their code will compile to anymore. Fun fact: With tools like Copilot and ChatGPT writing chunks of code, some devs really ARE asking their "agent" what language they should use. The future is weird.