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  • Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI!

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  • i like how the "summary" just crammed everything together in one big sentence.

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

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  • Saw this in an anthropic presentation:

  • DEFRA says: delete your emails to … save water?!

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  • Missed opportunity for "It's a cruel, cruel summer."

  • Wear Meta’s AI creepshot glasses — or be left behind!

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  • This is all about the surveillance state isn't it?

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

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  • Very similar situation to mine, but i went into electronics engineering instead of CS because i didn't think i would like to write software for a living. I now write software for a living, go figure.

    Also agreed on the "doing it" thing. I hear people around the office talk about letting AI write things for them and i'm like no, i want to write it myself. i like doing things.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 20th July 2025 - awful.systems

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  • ugh, why would i want a summary of a pull request? the whole point of reviewing a pull request is checking the details to make sure it's not missing something important or doing something wrong.

  • Stubsack: Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 6th July 2025

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  • Google Veo 3 fails, week 3 — fail harder with a vengeance (video)

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  • Ignoring the lack of direction following, everything looks so plastic. Probably video game cutscene training showing through.

  • Microsoft lays off the staff who make the money to fund AI that doesn’t

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  • From the perspective of the company I work for (not a tech company, but has a pretty large development center) they truly believe that AI will 10x productivity. Not so much the FOOM stuff. Just typical Capitalism.

  • The rise of Whatever

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  • They would like to describe what they want and receive Whatever — some beige sludge that vaguely resembles it. That isn’t programming, though. That’s management, a fairly different job. I’m not interested in managing. I’m certainly not interested in managing this bizarre polite lying daydream machine.

    This is where I am right now. They are pushing AI hard at work, even shaming people that haven't signed up for copilot. They brought in some MS rep to tell us how the future of work was going to be wrangling AI agents. This is not the future that I want.

  • $219 Springer Nature AI textbook was written with a chatbot

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  • I'm reminded of that Folding Ideas video where he writes a book for some get rich quick book mill scheme. I bet that stuff is all AI now.

  • Theranos: First Blood Part II

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  • yeah it's going to be the same scam only this time without those pesky regulators checking to see if it actually works and spooking the investors

  • Sneerquence classics: Eliezer on GOFAI (half serious half sneering effort post)

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  • it's interesting that Yud doesn't realize that Cyc is basically what he thought Lenat should have done with Eurisko

  • Scoots hot new AGI goss just dropped, Trump loses 3rd election to Grok in stunning upset

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  • ~100 snake oil salesmen agree that this here elixir will cure all your ills!

  • EAs sad that their previous rich grifters are trying to distance themselves from the movement

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  • “a journalist goes through your public statements looking for the most damning or hypocritical things you’ve ever said out of context” is an incredibly tricky situation to come out of looking good

    only if, you know, your public statements contain lots of damning things

  • Elon Musk’s DOGE turns to AI to accelerate its destructive incompetence

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  • they're going to try to write COBOL with AI. let's see how that works out

  • The Origins of Totalitarianism Wokeness by Paul "Chodejuggler" Graham

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  • god damn couldn't even get past the first paragraph where he describes himself, while trying to attribute it to others

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 5th January 2025

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