Crossposted from https://piefed.world/c/microblogmemes/p/1320387/imagine-if-all-the-meth-in-the-world-disappeared-tomorrow-then-what-would-you-do
How else will you find the energy to clean your shower at 3am if there’s no meth?
I’ve been a software engineer for 15 years. For the first 13, I was just paid to sit quietly at my desk waiting for Claude Code to be invented.
As a software developer, even when it comes to significantly more useful and locally-runnable tools like IDEs I would still be able to do without.
Anyone who can’t do their job at all without GenAI tools is a fraud and should resign immediately.
ditto
I wonder how long it would take if all hardware and code disappeared for an ide to be made again
All hardware? Decades, this shit is complicated as hell. Only software? I know I can write barebone vim using only vim and gcc in about a month of weekends and after work hours.
but what if you don’t have vim to write vim with?
That’ll be only a bit harder, unless frustration takes over. But if I don’t have gcc then we’re talking. However, it’s not that impossible, just complicated.
yeah, I’d imagine. It would certainly be an interesting project as well, for better and worse.
When I was in uni, my mate started making his own architecture on FPGA, with the goal of arriving at C from first principles. He abandoned it after 4 years, when it got too real, but that was quite a fun ride
“I never used AI”
"Yeah but imagine AI disappears, how would you do?
“I would still not use it?”
AI lords imagine every occupation involves using AI all the time.
There’s literally no AI involved in welding shop, except my bosses Asshole Intelligence
Apparently one of the big places it’s found a home is the business consultancy firms. You know, the ones that get paid millions to produce slide decks that say things about “developing synergistic relationships to increase profitability”. Reason is because it allows “leads” to produce all that crap themselves without a huge team of idiot underlings. No change in quality because it was all bullshit anyway.
So now KPMG or PWC or whoever, is going into boardrooms as waxing lyrical on how AI cuts your wage bill. They can’t imagine going back.
If all the meth in the world disappeared tomorrow? Well, I’d cook meth, of course – prices should be great now that all the competition is gone and addicts still want it!
waltuh
Give me vi and a reference book and I’ll code in any language you want.
This is the way.
I’d find a tutorial and fucking learn, just like I’ve always done.
Imagine if all the meth in the world disappeared tomorrow, then what would you do?
… learn to make meth? Demand would be through the roof.
I’m literally not going to be affected in the slightest, none of my daily tasks, hobbies, or learning require gassed up LLMs. Tech companies would move on to their next failed golden calf, as is the way of things.
Probably switch to Ritalin and be tired for awhile
I would have 2 friends that never got arrested for B&E to fund their meth habit.
Yeah guys search engines were developed Epstien class
They made a manga about me?
Way of the House Husband
cocaine, heroin still exist. plus meth can still be manufactered again, pseudoephidrine, and the ephedra plant.
The original meme is extreme strawmanning. Because it’s a ragebait tweet or an extreme example of stupidity, not representative of anything. Possibly AI generated lol.
And “I have never used chatgpt” is just glorifying ignorance. Which is really the original boomer argument.
Lol AI has made some things faster for me but I still know the OG way of researching.
This is kind of like saying if your bicycles suddenly got taken away, you can’t get to work by walking.
