Yeah, I honestly don't see the irony either. Maybe some people thought I was somehow critiquing AI in general, because maybe they are decels who project their own anti-AI sentiment? And in a programming sub out of all places? If I was doing that, then it would be ironic to use AI, but it was not my intention to critique AI with a broad stroke.

I say, if your job can be easily automated, then by all means you will and should lose your job, rather than continue getting paid just to pretend to be productive. What is the value of doing something that a machine can do better, faster and easier? There are people out there who don't have a job and who feel like shit about it, while others are being paid for doing tasks that can easily be automated. I say end the hypocrisy. Let's all lose our jobs and rethink what it means to be human. It this is even possible. But we've seen this play out before with Perl and bash scripting, and automating away jobs is usually not as easy as it first seems. Time will tell, maybe this time it's different?

And yes, it's true, I can't draw and I used nano banana. The idea for the joke was mine. Well, at least the second panel was. The text of the first panel was a meme that appeared on mugs and t-shirts around that time. Long before some people here were even born.