Reusing code

The circle of startup AI innovation: Manager asks impossible question → Developer frantically asks ChatGPT → Developer presents ChatGPT's answer as their own work → Manager impressed → Company secures another round of funding. Let's be honest, half the "AI strategy" presentations in boardrooms right now are just regurgitated LLM outputs with fancy transitions. The real innovation is how quickly we've normalized outsourcing our thinking to robots while maintaining our poker faces.

Content Me a beginner trying to get rProgrammerHumour jokes:

Content Using a library Spending hours writing your own functionality, only to realize you don't even need the feature it was for

Content rProgrammer Humor aggressively rinsing the same meme idea 3 days in a row my Reddit timeline

The classic interview trap: "Can you work under pressure?" Sure, you say with a smile, blissfully unaware of the apocalyptic codebase awaiting you. Fast-forward three months and you're a shell of your former self, surviving on caffeine and Stack Overflow prayers, debugging legacy code written by someone who clearly hated humanity. The transformation from optimistic candidate to battle-scarred veteran is complete. Your IDE has seen things no debugger should ever witness.

Content Stevie Graham stevegraham Men in tech will literally buy a maxed out MacBook Pro and a Herman Miller chair because "I spend 30-40 of my life using this, the expense is justified" and then spend 247 in the same couple of awfully fitting T-shirts they got for free from some startup 5 years ago. 19:34 26 Dec 21 Twitter for iPhone 694 Retweets 336 Quote Tweets 9,882 Likes