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BlueMonday1984

@ BlueMonday1984 @awful.systems

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st February 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • oh your code is open source guess that resolves everything then

    Yeah, its not like open-source can suffer from catastrophic bugs or anything, that's purely in Proprietary Land

    (As an aside, Tante did a write-up on Heartbleed back when it hit the news, and pointed to dysfunctional project management and lack of funds as the cause. Considering FOSS projects like Firefox and Bitwarden were hit with the LLM bug, both have definitely gotten worse in the ten years since.)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Steve Yegge’s Gas Town: Vibe coding goes crypto scam

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  • Meth LLMs: Not Even Once

    Yegge’s an extremely experienced professional engineer. So he put care into Gas Town, right?

    I’ve never seen the code, and I never care to, which might give you pause.

    This is a lack of care I've only really seen with vibe coding, and I still struggle to wrap my head around how someone can have an utter death of shits to give about something they're making (if you can even call vibe-coding "making"). Its particularly stark for me when I compare it to the many, many artists I know online, who care deeply about their craft, and whose artwork deeply reflects that.

    Just...what the fuck?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Art student protests other student’s AI ‘art’: he eats it

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  • I've seen memes about eating people's art, but never a literal case, lmaoooooooooooo

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • >zero-click android exploit

    >arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation

    Remember when the human was the weakest part of any cybersecurity system? Pepperidge Farms remembers.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 25th January 2026

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  • Newgrounds user turned Audio Moderator Quest has put together a recap of 2025 (text version), providing stats for how much slop she's dealt with:

    2025 Stats:

    • 2818 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 3656 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 12.7 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 2843 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    Cumulative Stats (since 2024):

    • 4475 AI-Generated Tracks Flagged or Removed
    • 5731 Total Flagged or Removed Tracks
    • 18.93 GB Data Used by AI-Generated Tracks
    • 4113 Accounts Which Uploaded Prohibited Audio

    AI Model Breakdown:

    • Suno AI: 82%
    • Udio AI: 5%
    • Riffusion AI: 1%
    • Other: 12%
      • RVC-Based: 0.6%
      • Soundful: 0.4%
      • Mixed: 0.2%
      • Various Other Models: 2.9%
      • Unknown: 7.9%

    Reportedly, she's also got an essay-length sneer in the works:

    Finally, I am also working on an even larger, long-form essay post about artificial intelligence, drawing a link to something that I do not see draw enough. It’s a big project with a lot of research and knowledgeable people guiding me. This will be released in the coming months. I have a lot to say.

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th January 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • Anyway, I can recommend skipping this episode and only bothering with the technical or more business oriented ones, which are often pretty good.

    AI puffery is easy for anyone to see through. If they're regularly mistaking for something of actual substance, their technical/business sense is likely worthless, too.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • Found someone showing some well-founded concern over the state of programming, and decided to share it before heading off to bed:

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    Is anyone else experience this thing where your fellow senior engineers seem to be lobotomised by AI?

    I've had 4 different senior engineers in the last week come up with absolutely insane changes or code, that they were instructed to do by AI. Things that if you used your brain for a few minutes you should realise just don't work.

    They also rarely can explain why they make these changes or what the code actually does.

    I feel like I'm absolutely going insane, and it also makes me not able to trust anyones answers or analysis' because I /know/ there is a high chance they should asked AI and wrote it off as their own.

    I think the effect AI has had on our industry's knowledge is really significant, and it's honestly very scary.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th January 2026

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  • I'd personally just overthrow the US government and make it a British colony once more /j

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 18th May 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 11th May 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 27th April 2025

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    "OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry"

    www.wheresyoured.at /openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th April 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 13th April 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025

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    Yud follows up Sammy Boy's AI-Generated "Metafiction"

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    "Power Cut" - Ed Zitron on Microsoft's recent pullback on building servers

    www.wheresyoured.at /power-cut/
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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 20 October 2024

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    Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending Sunday 9 September 2024

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    Ed Zitron on Google's antitrust loss

    www.wheresyoured.at /monopoly-money/
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    Humane Ai Pin returns are now outpacing sales

    pivot-to-ai.com /2024/08/08/humane-ai-pin-returns-are-now-outpacing-sales/
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    Ed Zitron on what might come next for the AI bubble and the tech industry

    www.wheresyoured.at /burst-damage/