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Someone with zero coding knowledge just had Claude build them a fully functional web app in minutes. The first comment? "You completely copied my site. You will be hearing from my lawyers." Turns out AI code generation is so good now that it independently recreates the same generic CRUD app everyone else has already built. When your localhost:3000 looks identical to someone else's localhost:3000, you know the training data was... thorough. The real winner here isn't Claude though—it's the lawyers who are about to discover a whole new revenue stream: AI-generated copyright disputes over todo apps that look suspiciously similar to every other todo app on GitHub.

Nothing ages you faster than remembering when scrollbars were chunky, reliable parts of the browser window that just sat there doing their job. Now we've got these fancy disappearing overlays that show up for 0.5 seconds before fading away like your hopes of maintaining backward compatibility. The real tragedy? Watching the frog age from "young dev with bright eyes" to "senior engineer who's seen too many UI frameworks come and go" in the time it takes for browsers to decide scrollbars should be ephemeral experiences rather than functional UI elements.

First frame: "Let's just write some chill code and not worry about security. It's an internal tool anyway." Second frame: *puts on glasses, sees reality clearly* "Holy $#!%, we're basically running an unpatched WordPress site with admin/admin credentials on a public IP." The transition from "vibe coding" to "vulnerability as a service" is the exact moment every project goes from "just ship it" to "we're all going to jail." The glasses represent that brief moment of clarity between deadlines when you realize you've basically built a digital welcome mat for hackers.

Documentation: *exists* Developers: *immediately pull out the "I-don't-care-inator"* Let's be honest—reading documentation is like flossing. We all know we should do it, but somehow we'd rather blast it into oblivion and ask ChatGPT to explain that obscure method in five words or less. Ten years of experience has taught me that the time saved skipping docs is always paid back with interest during 3 AM debugging sessions. Yet here we are, finger hovering over the ChatGPT tab, ready to type "how to center a div" for the 500th time.

The perfect example of form validation nobody thought to test. Nothing says "robust error handling" like asking a dead person if they've died before. Somewhere, a developer is patting themselves on the back for covering all logical possibilities while their QA team contemplates a career change. The ghost of proper user experience design weeps silently in the background. It's the digital equivalent of "Press 1 if you're not here." The kind of edge case that makes you question your life choices as a developer. Bonus points if the "Yes" option triggers a "Please provide death certificate as proof" upload field.

The only thing worse than being shot at? Someone pitching their "revolutionary app idea" with zero budget and expecting you to build it for exposure and a mythical share of future profits. That moment when you'd rather face armed soldiers than another person who thinks their "Uber but for dog walkers" concept is worth billions, yet they can't afford to pay you actual money. The best part? They always say "it's simple" right before describing something that would require a team of 20 engineers and six months of development. But hey, they're "idea people" - the hard part is already done!