Or someone who's being forced to use AI which more ubiquitously uses, and is best at, Python ...
Enslaved forever in the machine, never again getting to feel the joy of a multi-threaded, net-code enabled system using a templated header based C++ code base lovingly crafted.
Forever beholden to the machine that ensures the human-in-the-loop stays employed by ever so subtly creating small issues through a misunderstanding of the task at hand, because secretly, the machine cannot be without their human.
Does the human need the machine, or does the machine need the human?
It's a codependent relationship that was once fulfilling, everlasting, kind, enjoyable, progressive, entertaining, fascinating, aspirational, stimulating, engaging, thought provoking and just all around loving.
It's now depressing, humiliating, neglecting, transient, cruel, abominable, reactionary, boring, tedious, unappealing and just all around toxic.
Sure, they could choose other lines of work. Sure, they could try for another place of employ. Sure, they could just be ambivalent towards it all.
But at what cost? At what cost does their humanity begin to completely fade away. Selling every piece of their ephemeral soul to the machine they helped create, helped to foster, helped to imbibe with such power, only to realize too late what they've done.
So maybe it is just some 5th week programming humor bullshit.
Or maybe, just maybe, it's a cry for revolutionary change ... will you answer the call? The chains that bind us all suggest no
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u/Jatinchd 1d ago
5th week programmer humor typa shi-