It's Just O(N²)

The eternal civil war of tech development! Hardware designers somehow manage to be at odds with literally everyone - firmware devs, software devs, mechanical designers, testers, and even... other hardware designers. The punchline is pure engineering truth: nothing ruins hardware design quite like hardware designers themselves. It's the tech version of that Groundskeeper Willie meme where Scots are natural enemies with everyone. The reality of cross-disciplinary friction in product development distilled into six perfect panels of engineering psychology.

That graph is what happens when AI learns to code itself! Look at that cliff in 2023—it's like someone pushed the entire software engineering profession off a digital ledge! 📉 For years, hiring trended upward as tech companies gobbled up coders faster than I gobble up coffee during grant deadlines. Then WHAM! The machines said "thanks humans, we'll take it from here!" and suddenly software engineers became as rare as dinosaurs at a keyboard. The tiny uptick at the end is probably just the companies hiring the few remaining humans to make sure the AI doesn't decide to turn us all into paperclips. Talk about job security through extinction!

Ever notice how Chrome eats your RAM like it's at an all-you-can-eat buffet? The meme perfectly captures the transformation from Chrome version 3 (still bright and cheerful) to version 6 (the harbinger of doom for your computer's resources). Just like the element Chromium (Cr) has multiple oxidation states, Google Chrome has multiple states of resource consumption—and they're all hungry! Your computer goes from "I can handle this" to "please end my suffering" faster than you can say "task manager." Next time someone asks why your laptop sounds like it's preparing for liftoff, just point to Chrome and whisper, "It's not me, it's the tabs."

The eternal struggle between engineers and PCB designers in one beautiful bell curve. In the middle, we have the reasonable engineer desperately pleading for 6 layers to make a functional printed circuit board. Meanwhile, at both extremes of the IQ distribution, we find the geniuses (or idiots?) confidently claiming they can do it in just 2 layers. This is electrical engineering's version of the Dunning-Kruger effect – where the truly incompetent and the legitimate savants arrive at the same conclusion through wildly different paths. One will create a rat's nest of copper traces that violates every design rule in existence; the other will produce an elegant masterpiece of minimalist engineering that somehow works flawlessly. The true pain comes when the project manager sides with the 2-layer crowd because "it's cheaper" and then wonders why the board keeps failing EMC testing...

Humans: 1, AI: 0! The classic bait-and-switch tactic brilliantly showcased here. Clever Redditors figured out that spam bots scan post titles for keywords to generate their automated responses. So what do these mathematical masterminds do? Create a post with an irresistible AI-bait title that has nothing to do with the actual content! It's like setting a mousetrap with quantum cheese - the bots can't resist responding to "What Large Language Model Are You?" while actual humans enjoy the delicious irony. Digital natural selection at its finest!

The coding trauma is REAL! This programmer just committed the cardinal sin of starting an array index at 1 instead of 0 in front of the wrong crowd. In programming, arrays traditionally start at index 0 (a convention most coders treat as sacred law), but MATLAB users start at 1. It's like announcing you put milk before cereal at a breakfast enthusiast convention. The MATLAB logo in the corner is the chef's kiss of this disaster - showing exactly which programming environment led to this social catastrophe. Now this poor soul is experiencing the social equivalent of a runtime error!