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Tech companies spent years replacing human developers with AI tokens and LLM API calls, only to discover that hiring actual junior developers is... cheaper. Revolutionary stuff. It's like watching someone reinvent the wheel but calling it "cost optimization through human resource allocation." The industry went from "we don't need juniors, AI will do it" to "wait, paying a salary is less than burning through API credits?" in record time. Full circle innovation indeed—we've successfully disrupted our way back to employment. Next up: discovering that offices are cheaper than WeWork subscriptions.

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Someone took GitHub's sleek developer interface and gave it the full British government website treatment—complete with that unmistakable GOV.UK design system that makes everything look like you're about to pay a tax or renew your driving license. Your repositories? Now they're "services you maintain" because apparently we're all civil servants managing passport applications and teacher training programs instead of pushing code at 2 AM. The attention to detail is chef's kiss: pull requests are now "proposed changes for review" (very bureaucratic), there's a BETA banner reminding you this might actually work someday, and the whole thing radiates that special energy of needing to fill out three forms just to commit a README update. Even the announcements section warns you about downtime like it's a scheduled road closure. The GOV.UK design system is actually brilliant for accessibility and usability, but seeing it applied to GitHub is like watching your favorite indie band perform at a tax office.

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