The Real Programming Education Hierarchy

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The AI hype cycle speedrun, perfectly captured in four stages of clown makeup. Started with the promise that AI would revolutionize everything, got seduced into thinking you could skip fundamentals and just prompt your way to a senior dev salary. Then reality hit: those "free" AI tools either got paywalled harder than Adobe Creative Cloud or started running slower than a nested loop in Python. Now you're sitting there with zero transferable skills, a LinkedIn full of AI buzzwords, and the crushing realization that "prompt engineer" isn't actually a career path. The kicker? While you were vibing, the devs who actually learned their craft are still employed. Turns out you can't Ctrl+Z your way out of not knowing how a for-loop works.

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Oh, the eternal struggle of dark mode vs light mode just went intergalactic! The alien's response is basically every senior dev when a junior shows up with default light theme settings. "Sorry buddy, we're throwing you back to space - we only accept developers who protect their retinas around here." The cosmic horror isn't alien invasion, it's having to pair program with someone using a light-themed IDE. Immediate grounds for deportation from Planet Developer.

Content Society if programmers actually worked rather than making memes complaining about other programming languages.