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Modern dev wonders how pyramids were built without ChatGPT AI assist
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The meme shows a detailed, painterly illustration of ancient Egyptians constructing a pyramid, complete with quarry blocks, ramps, laborers, and desert backdrop. Three overseers in colorful pharaonic garb stand on scaffolding, reviewing a papyrus blueprint while pointing at the work site. Super-imposed in bold white text with a black outline reads: “Naw but how they built ts without chatgpt???” - a deliberately misspelled, slangy question highlighting reliance on large-language-model tooling. The humor juxtaposes monumental historical engineering with modern developers’ dependence on AI assistants for even routine tasks, poking fun at the shift in developer experience and skill expectations brought by LLMs like ChatGPT
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The Egyptians shipped a 2.5-million-block monolith to prod using papyrus specs and a literal human CI/CD pipeline of log rollers - 4,500 years later our sprint stalls because ChatGPT rate-limited while autocompleting a Terraform variable name
The ancient Egyptians managed to solve NP-hard logistics problems, implement distributed systems with 100,000 nodes, and maintain perfect data consistency across decades of construction - all without a single Stack Overflow answer or GPT prompt. Meanwhile, we can't center a div without consulting three AI models and a Medium article
This meme perfectly captures the existential crisis of the modern senior engineer: we've gone from 'not invented here' syndrome to 'can't build here without GPT-4.' The irony is that ancient engineers solved NP-hard optimization problems with papyrus and geometry while we panic when the API rate limit hits during a critical refactor. They had O(n²) manual labor; we have O(1) autocomplete anxiety. Perhaps the real pyramid scheme was the AI dependencies we accumulated along the way
Egyptians had a deterministic build - ropes, pulleys, and documentation; we need a stochastic parrot to remind us how to appease TypeScript’s discriminated unions and moduleResolution
Before LLMs, they did design reviews on papyrus, ran Waterfall literally, and still shipped a monolith that’s been five‑nines for 4,500 years - try getting that SLA from your cloud
Egyptians aligned pyramids to true north with math and stars - no LLMs needed; our distributed systems still can't elect a leader without Raft failing over
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with DeepSeek Comment deleted
using braingpt Comment deleted
BTW, a week ago a new study was published: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZjU_hioDfQ Comment deleted
people will do everything but admit Egyptian people were smart Comment deleted
https://youtube.com/shorts/TgAp_Ry6dcM?si=SAhGQyWtDjDKKFSI Comment deleted
thank you imanuel ulbricht Comment deleted
So what does this youtube-shorts drama queen is saying on topic? That some scientists from an Italian university published another scientific paper about a topic very uncomfortable for the "mainstream" "science"? Something else? Does he publish some paper disproving the work of the mentioned scientists? But.. Writing papers?? Nah, recording shorts in youtube is much funnier! Also, no liability for the words.. just say shit and nothing happens.. Also, he is a fucking liar, he says there were no peer-reviews, but actually there are, go check it for yourself: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Synthetic-Aperture-Radar-Doppler-Tomography-Reveals-Biondi-Malanga/e2ebd5e8bb230059393a1e7fb6e1570a21395387#citing-papers, then check the reviews for those papers. BTW, Kennedy was also killed by a lone gunmen.. yeah, let's trust what CIA snoops says on that 🤦♂️ Comment deleted
people make youtube content just for views, it is not that deep. I can tell just by thumbnail Comment deleted
And let me guess, the pyramids were build by aliens? :D Comment deleted
you can guess whatever you want, put your guesses in a scientific paper, publish it and then we'll talk about it Comment deleted
That was a question towards you, do you think that? Comment deleted
If I publish some paper on that, I'll let you know Comment deleted
So your answer is yes? Comment deleted
Looks like too much tiktok makes text comprehension difficult Comment deleted
I could say the same to you, you were not answering my question at all Comment deleted
Ok, different question, since you already said that. Where is your proof, that it wasn't a lone gunman? Comment deleted
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025 Comment deleted
Do have a concrete document out of the 2343? Which proves your point? Comment deleted
Though a complete off-topic for the main post, you can start here, then DYOR (won't reply anything else on that): https://www.theinteldrop.org/2025/03/19/decoding-the-declassified-secret-service-memorandum-on-jfks-assassination/ Comment deleted
Oh great, the Jewish world conspiracy theory, I think there is no discussion possible Comment deleted
I love how people are trying to find some rich people conspiracy in jews and shit when there's already one with just … no consistent racial and religious markers Comment deleted
and it's not that devious, it's just rich people doing easy-to-think-of-and-implement actions to preserve their wealth like pushing for lower-class infighting Comment deleted
and they're not very good at it either; the second us of lower status hold a common grudge against some rich asshole, it's joever for them. look at Elon's power in absolute freefall rn Comment deleted
anyway sorry for the rant Comment deleted
what does ts stand for here? Comment deleted
this / this shit Comment deleted
eh i was thinking about type script or team speak Comment deleted
terrible sauce /j Comment deleted