The phenomenon observed in late
2022, around the time when OpenAI's ChatGPT gained widespread adoption, of a younger generation of software developers holding the specific belief that, due to the disruptive technology behind artificial
intelligence models such as Large Language Models (LLMs) and chat agents such as ChatGPT, all tasks are able to be completed entirely or partially
via these AI advancements.
Moreover, this sickness can be identified as more severe if the individual under suspicion of infection can be observed saying the blatant phrase: "I could automate that." Other signs of infection include a drastic decrease in productivity, which is in rare cases followed by a massive
spike in the same productivity. This
spike is less and less frequently being observed in the community.
Hiring Manager: Fuck
man, I'm getting tired of all these bratty little applicants trying to tell me this position could be "
like completely 'done' with ChatGPT,
man..." They've got automation poisoning, the lot of 'em.
Hiring Manager 2: I hear you. I accidentally caught a glimpse of the display on one of their macbook pros as they left... the only apps on the taskbar were the unofficial ChatGPT client, A custom Midjourney client, and a custom Stable Diffusion client. Or
maybe they were just shortcuts to open safari now that I think about it. She didn't even have the file explorer
man...
