The Job Title Joke That Became a Professional Identity Test

Professional satire only stings when it names something true. Leopatto's 'AI Collaboration Partner' announcement was constructed as absurdist mockery — the emoji overload, the self-congratulatory tone, the dismissal of 'debugging stack traces' as beneath a modern practitioner . But the thread's response exposed the satire's actual target: a profession that has watched its daily work shift faster than its self-description, and has not yet found language that makes the shift feel like a promotion rather than a concession.