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TinyTimmyTokyo

@ TinyTimmyTokyo @awful.systems

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  • Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto

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  • I know it's been said thousands of times before, but as a software developer I've never felt a greater sense of job security than I do right now. The amount of work it's going to take to clean up all this slop is going to be monumental. Unfortunately, that kind of work is also soul-deadening.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems

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  • Last year McDonald's withdrew AI from its own drive-throughs as the tech misinterpreted customer orders - resulting in one person getting bacon added to their ice cream in error, and another having hundreds of dollars worth of chicken nuggets mistakenly added to their order.

    Clearly artificial superintelligence has arrived, and instead of killing us all with diamondoid bacteria, it's going to kill us by force-feeding us fast food.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • It immediately made me wonder about his background. He's quite young and looks to be just out of college. If I had to guess, I'd say he was probably a member of the EA club at Harvard.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • In case you needed more evidence that the Atlantic is a shitty rag.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 24th August 2025

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  • Clown world.

    How many times will he need to revise his silly timeline before media figures like Kevin Roose stop treating him like some kind of respectable authority? Actually, I know the answer to that question. They'll keep swallowing his garbage until the bubble finally bursts.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • Is it a loop if it only executes once?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • How much energy was used to produce that video?

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 17th August 2025

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  • Ozy Brennan tries to explain why "rationalism" spawns so many cults.

    One of the reasons they give is "a dangerous sense of grandiosity".

    the actual process of saving the world is not very glamorous. It involves filling out paperwork, making small tweaks to code, running A/B tests on Twitter posts.

    Yep, you heard it right. Shitposting and inconsequential code are the proper way to save the world.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • I'm aware of the cloudflare issue, and I don't use them. So I'm pretty sure it's not that. (I use firefox but I turn off DNS over HTTPS)

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • I noticed starting a couple weeks ago that archive.is is requiring me to complete captchas nearly every time I visit. Are other people experiencing this? If so, I wonder if the site's maintainers are reacting to increased traffic from LLM crawlers. The crawlers probably find Archive extraordinarily useful when they get blocked by source sites.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Can we call this the peak of the LLM hype cycle now?

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Could be worse, I got got by some neofascist scum who was dunking on rationalists.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 10th August 2025

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  • Gell-Mann amnesia.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 4th August 2025

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  • It's happening.

    Today Anthropic announced new weekly usage limits for their existing Pro plan subscribers. The chatbot makers are getting worried about the VC-supplied free lunch finally running out. Ed Zitron called this.

    Naturally the orange site vibe coders are whinging.

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

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  • That’s a question I ask myself sometimes. It usually ends with “I focused too much on trying to make easy cash”.

    I studied computer science because I was a huge computer nerd growing up. I always loved programming and learning everything I could about how computers worked. Learning new programming languages felt like uncovering a new universe of knowledge -- knowledge I could use to create things. I spent endless hours studying computers and learning to do amazing things with them. It was fun. It still is.

    So when I see people using LLMs to create things instead of doing it themselves, I can't relate. Why do that when you can get the pleasure from doing it yourself? I guess if making money is the primary motivating factor, then it makes sense. But for me it is totally self-defeating.

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

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  • In the case of O'Connor and people like him, I think it's about much more than his philosophy background. He's a YouTube creator who creates content on a regular schedule and makes a living off it. Once you start doing that, you're exposed to all the horrible incentives of the YouTube engagement algorithm, which inevitably leads you to start seeking out other controversial YouTubers to platform and become friendly with. It's an "I'll scratch your back if you scratch mine" situation dialed up to 11.

    The same thing has happened to Sabine herself. She's been captured by the algorithm, which has naturally shifted her audience to the right, and now she's been fully captured by that new audience.

    I fully expect Alex O'Connor to remain on this treadmill. <remind me in 12months>

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

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  • The Lasker/Mamdani/NYT sham of a story just gets worse and worse. It turns out that the ultimate source of Cremieux's (Jordan Lasker's) hacked Columbia University data is a hardcore racist hacker who uses a slur for their name on X. The NYT reporter who wrote the Mamdani piece, Benjamin Ryan, turns out to have been a follower of this hacker's X account. Ryan essentially used Lasker as a cutout for the blatantly racist hacker.

    https://archive.is/d9rh1

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

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  • It's starting to feel like I need to download a snapshot of Wikipedia now before it gets worse.