We Were Cool

Nothing says "career optimization" quite like spending your entire youth mastering skills that become obsolete the moment ChatGPT learns to write a for-loop. The education system really nailed that return on investment. Somewhere, a CS professor is updating their syllabus to include "How to Convince AI You're Still Useful 101."

This meme perfectly captures the duality of AI usage in tech. At the top, we see "normal people" using ChatGPT for sensible things like getting help with writing or homework. Meanwhile, the bottom panel reveals the true essence of tech culture: sleep-deprived IT professionals at 3 AM forcing multiple AI models to do manual labor in a cotton field. Because nothing says "I'm a programmer" quite like staying up until ungodly hours to make AI tools do increasingly bizarre and questionable tasks instead of, you know, sleeping like a functional human being. The desperate creativity that emerges at 3 AM is a universal programmer experience that no amount of caffeine can explain.

The classic software development glow-up! Backend code is the disheveled guy with his shirt untucked and vest askew—basically held together with duct tape, regex, and prayers. Meanwhile, the frontend code gets a professional photoshoot with perfect lighting and styling. And finally, what users actually see? A polished, smiling interface that gives zero hints about the eldritch horrors lurking in the codebase. It's like putting a designer suit on a server that's literally just a potato connected to a car battery.

Who needs Dropbox when you've got unlimited repos? The real GitHub pro move isn't collaboration—it's exploiting that sweet, sweet free storage. Nothing says "senior developer" like having a private repo called "vacation_pics_2023" with 500 commits that are just JPEGs of your dog at the beach. GitHub staff probably wondering why someone needs to version control 8GB of wedding photos with commit messages like "final_final_ACTUALLY_FINAL.jpg".

The LAST BLISSFUL MOMENTS of humanity before everything went to hell! Look at these sweet summer children partying like there's no tomorrow—because there literally wasn't a JavaScript tomorrow! They're dancing, they're celebrating, COMPLETELY UNAWARE that in just a few months, their lives would be forever cursed with callback hell, undefined is not a function, and the eternal question "why doesn't this work in IE?!" These poor souls had no idea they were living in the golden age. The last generation that knew peace before npm install consumed our lives!

When your CSS finally works and the cat fits purr fectly in the container! That beautiful moment when width: 100% and height: 100% actually do what you want instead of causing overflow chaos. The cat is now fully responsive and contained - unlike most of my elements that either escape their boxes or collapse into weird shapes. No media queries needed for this feline layout! Fun fact: Cats naturally follow the box model better than most browsers. If it fits, they sits - no margin or padding calculations required.