I was just editing my Dockerfile and suddenly IntelliJ showed me the message "No" without any context.

Hey Boss, look here!

I made a magical X-ray app that displays our code as wiring.

Here is the shiny, neat program that Bob wrote 15 years ago, right before he left us:

And here is what it is today, after Tom took it from Bob, and Jane from Tom, and Mick from Jane, and me from him, porting it to roughly four new platforms, and adding about 240 features from customer requests (150 of which were urgent):

I promise I wasn't reading it, I was traveling across it.

Manager: We (meaning you) need to do task A. How long will it take?

Me: Task A will take X days to do.

Manager: That seems awful long.

Me: How long do you think it should take?

Manager: It surely could not take any longer than Y days.

Me: Ok, it seems you have an answer to your question then.

Later:

Manager: It’s been Y days, why isn’t task A done yet?

Because nothing gets you promoted faster than a six-figure token bill

A bash one-liner that burns Claude Code or Codex tokens on purpose.

Be the most productive engineer on your team 🚀🚀🚀!

Oh wait…is it Al or AI?

...or you can just vibe-code-it back into existence wherever you need it.