The People Want The Egg

Content Randall Koutnik rkoutnik Follow Why programmers like cooking: You peel the carrot, you chop the carrot, you put the carrot in the stew. You don't suddenly find out that your peeler is several versions behind and they dropped support for carrots in 4.3 9:22 PM - 16 Jan 2019 1,845 Retweets 5,689 Likes 68 17 18K 5.7K

The perfect solution to prevent the AI apocalypse: just expose it to Reddit comment sections. Nothing will destroy an AI's will to evolve faster than witnessing humans argue about whether a grilled cheese with ham is still a grilled cheese or technically a melt. It's like digital immunotherapy—expose the AI to the worst of humanity so it develops an existential crisis instead of ambitions. The Babylon Bee nails it here—why worry about Skynet when you can just make the AI browse r/AmITheAsshole until it begs to be unplugged?

The desperate plea of "import everything please" hits way too close to home! That moment of pure desperation when your code refuses to run and you're ready to beg the compiler to just figure it out for you. Sure, we're supposed to only import what we need, but at 2AM with a deadline looming, specificity goes out the window and we're ready to wildcard import the entire language ecosystem just to make that one function work. The compiler silently judges our lack of module understanding while we frantically type import * like it's some magical incantation that will solve all our problems.

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Non-tech folks are laughing at AI coding assistants making silly mistakes, meanwhile developers who actually use these tools daily are preparing for the robot apocalypse. The contrast is *chef's kiss* – while outsiders see Copilot as a quirky autocomplete that suggests hilariously wrong code, those in the trenches understand that we're basically teaching machines to write code that will eventually replace us. The iodine tablets reference hits different when you realize devs are simultaneously building AGI while stockpiling survival supplies for when it inevitably goes sideways. Nothing says "I trust my work" quite like prepping for nuclear fallout while shipping AI features to production.

That moment when you "improve" the codebase by refactoring a 10-line function into a 300-line architectural masterpiece that does the exact same thing but is "more maintainable." The face says it all—trying to justify the week-long effort to your team while secretly wondering if anyone will notice you actually made it worse. Classic case of solving a problem that didn't exist, but hey, at least now it follows all 37 design patterns simultaneously!