Paper Coding Won't Make You A Programmer

The railroad tracks of progress have certainly gotten more complex! On the left, we have the traditional straight-line coding path—simple, predictable, and takes you 5 hours to reach a single destination. On the right, the AI-assisted coding multiverse with infinite possibilities, chaotic intersections, and enough track switches to give a train conductor an existential crisis. Sure, you'll build your app in 5 minutes with AI, but then spend the next 4 hours and 55 minutes figuring out which of the 47 different generated solutions actually works without summoning digital Cthulhu to your codebase. The real question: are we moving faster or just creating more impressive train wrecks?

Programmers will spend $150 on a gaming mouse with 15 programmable buttons but only use it to click "Run" and "Copy/Paste Stack Overflow solutions." The irony of owning hardware with more features than your actual code is *chef's kiss*. Sure, those macro buttons could automate your workflow, but why do that when you can just continue your sacred ritual of "ctrl+c, ctrl+v, pray it works"?

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Scientists: "We've created an AI that's consistently wrong." Tech CEOs: "Ship it." And that's how we ended up with chatbots that confidently explain why you should add milk before cereal, virtual assistants that send your grocery list to your ex, and AI that swears your code will work perfectly despite 47 syntax errors. The modern tech industry in a nutshell: if it's broken but profitable, it's a feature not a bug.