From Problem Solving to Token-Rationed Begging

Description

A white-background Buff Doge versus Cheems meme is headed "SOFTWARE ENGINEERING – THEN VS NOW" in large outlined lettering. The muscular Doge on the left says, "I keep learning new skills and use logic to solve problems so that I can do my job properly and efficiently as a programmer." The small seated dog on the right says, "I must talk like a caveman to BS generators (owned by private companies in the U.S.) to avoid hitting token quotas so that I can keep begging for fixes for the bugs in their code," and a faint "Imgflip.com" watermark appears at bottom left. The comparison presents modern AI-assisted development as a regressively constrained workflow in which terse prompting, vendor quotas, generated defects, and repeated repair requests displace direct reasoning and skill-building.