The Joy of AI

Have just spent several geological eras wrestling with a microscopic QGIS problem. All I wanted—all I wanted—was for the page size to magically appear in my metadata block. Hours of web searching, manual‑reading, and ritual sacrifices to the GIS gods produced nothing.

Then I thought, “Aha! AI will save me.”

Two hours later, after trying every single suggestion it hallucinated into existence, it finally announced:

“Oh yeah, you can’t do that. Just hard‑code it like you’ve been doing.”

ChatGPT, you are officially shortlisted for Subscription I’m Cancelling Out of Spite.