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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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the guy who got Elon and Grimes to hook up, destroying Twitter and proceeding to blow up the United States

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 9th November 2025

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  • KeepArseNX

    lead dev: Jia Tan

  • The futile future of the gigawatt datacenter — by Nicholas Weaver

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  • yeah. LLMs are fat. Lesser ML works great tho.

  • Oxford pretends AI benchmarks are science, not marketing

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  • i have a pile of long winded comments and emails pretending this tech can be apolitical and how dare i impugn their hard work and science

    there's a reason i moderate against fucking idiots. you have a billion other loungeroom floors on the internet to piss on

  • AI makes you think you’re a genius when you’re an idiot

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  • I'M DOING 1000 CALCULATIONS PER SECOND AND THEY'RE ALL FP4

  • AI: powered by old jet turbines, near you!

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  • yeah even these converted jet engines are in short supply, but ProEnergy has some

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • looks pretty good to me, I'd be delighted to produce this sort of work and he's doing loadbearing work on the numbers here - that the finance press is faintly catching up to a year later.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • do please continue!

    (i mean, like i can talk)

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 2nd November 2025

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  • did you read either link

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • "yor mums a code smell"

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 26th October 2025

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  • fuckin pisses me off, given his clippy campaign is helping move pivot shirts

    sigh

    I WILL NOT CHANGE, CLIPPY SUCKED FIRST

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • I don't actually believe DHH uses Omarchy as his daily driver and not his Mac.

  • the code smells of fashtech: omarchy

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  • the fashtech tells are smells.

    like. lots of incompetent kids half-ass shit

    lots of people write inner-platforms

    lots of people claim a reskin is original code do not steal

    but when they do all that and they get fashy funding. well.

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • AI SHILL: if you hate AI, you hate the disabled!DISABLED PERSON: hi, help me in some practical wayAI SHILL: fuck off

  • AI is not popular, and AI users are unpleasant asshats

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  • and a startling percentage of those turn out to be rationalist race scientists

  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • a youtube commenter notices: just where is that robot's left hand

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • I'm apparently quoted in one of the expensive low circulation finance newsletters (Grant's Interest Rate Observer) today or tomorrow saying how even the relatively competent crypto firms are also run by clowns.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 19th October 2025

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  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • I did see at least a few, which is why I said that, funnily enough.

  • AI boyfriend users radicalise against OpenAI — and self-host their chatbot companions

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  • Given this user's declared lack of intent to improve, we wish them well in their posting career elsewhere.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    The hype after AI: lads, it’s looking really quantum

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/16/the-hype-after-ai-lads-its-looking-really-quantum/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    UK government productivity not enhanced by Copilot AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/15/uk-government-productivity-not-enhanced-by-copilot-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/14/medical-research-ethics-is-hard-but-fake-ai-data-is-easy/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Canadian education report riddled with fake AI references

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/13/canadian-education-report-riddled-with-fake-ai-references/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Cursor looks into selling your data for AI training

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/12/cursor-looks-into-selling-your-data-for-ai-training/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Apple retrains Siri AI for the Trump anti-’woke’ era

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/11/apple-retrains-siri-ai-for-the-trump-anti-woke-era/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Inception Point — AI spam podcasts with no listeners

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/10/inception-point-ai-spam-podcasts-with-no-listeners/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    If AI coding is so good … where are the little apps?

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/09/if-ai-coding-is-so-good-where-are-the-little-apps/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    We try Suno’s AI music generator — hear Suno fail the Fall

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/08/we-try-sunos-ai-music-hear-suno-fail-the-fall/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Anthropic AI pays off authors with just $1.5 billion

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/07/anthropic-ai-pays-off-authors-with-just-1-5-billion/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Edward Saatchi: maybe not the Orson Welles of AI

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/06/edward-saatchi-maybe-not-the-orson-welles-of-ai/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Google quietly vanishes its net zero carbon pledge

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/05/google-quietly-vanishes-its-net-zero-carbon-commitment/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    OpenAI is using legal threats to harass its critics

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/04/openai-is-using-legal-threats-to-harass-its-critics/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    DragonCon ejects AI ‘artist’, to approval of all

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/03/dragoncon-ejects-ai-artist-to-approval-of-all/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Vibe coding is getting rancid even for venture capital

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/02/vibe-coding-is-getting-too-rancid-even-for-venture-capital/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    this seemed harsh ten years ago, but in 2025? it's quite calm and measured

    deadspin.com /hitchbot-was-a-literal-pile-of-trash-and-got-what-it-de-1721850503/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Fake freelance journalism with AI — until you’re busted

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/09/01/fake-freelance-journalism-with-ai-until-youre-busted/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    31% of employees are ‘sabotaging’ your corporate AI strategy!

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/31/31-of-employees-are-sabotaging-your-corporate-ai-strategy/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

    Taco Bell rethinks AI order bots — because they don’t work

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/30/taco-bell-rethinks-ai-order-bots-because-they-dont-work/
  • TechTakes @awful.systems
    David Gerard @awful.systems

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

    pivot-to-ai.com /2025/08/29/vibe-coded-build-system-nx-gets-hacked-steals-vibe-coders-crypto/