The Four Stages Of Code Grief

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The battle cry of every regex enthusiast who's watched AI models steal their thunder. Remember the good old days when text processing meant crafting the perfect regex pattern that looked like someone headbutted a keyboard? Now we've got billion-parameter models turning words into vectors and pretending they "understand" language. The bottom half showing "real NLP" with incomprehensible mathematical formulas and question marks is just *chef's kiss* - nothing says "human-friendly" like equations that would make even tenured professors reach for the aspirin. And that regex pattern in the middle? That's the ancient incantation developers used to summon the text-processing gods before we decided to burn exaflops of computing power to figure out if "John hates Mary" or if he's just having a bad day.

That moment when it hits you—your entire coding career has been reduced to "vibes" since ChatGPT arrived. No more grinding through Stack Overflow at 3 AM; now it's just "Hey AI, fix this mess" and hoping for the best. Your carefully cultivated programming skills? Just expensive intuition for prompting. Your CS degree? Just fancy paper to frame next to your "I used to write my own code" participation trophy.

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You know you've made it as a developer when you realize the only thing that changed between junior and senior is the quality of your Google search terms. Still copying code from Stack Overflow, just with more confidence and a better monitor now. The dependency never goes away, you just get better at pretending you understand what you're pasting.