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David Gerard

@ dgerard @awful.systems

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3 yr. ago

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

https://davidgerard.co.uk/

  • Microsoft Copilot AI’s official avatar looks like a blob of semen

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  • Microsoft Edge

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

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  • Neopets but it's an animated blob of cum with a smiley face.

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

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  • I've met Vinay, he's great in person. But should not post.

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

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  • Nobody clicks past Google’s AI Overviews

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  • Convenience is king, and never mind accuracy.

  • Huge SaaStr-Replit vibe coding disaster! — if it ever happened

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  • look, i didn't say liar,

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

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  • Transformers do way better transcription, buuuuuut yeah you gotta check it

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

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  • because they cribbed their ideas from deathnote, and they're stupid

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

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  • oh yeah that was obvious when you see who they are and what they do. also, one of the large opensource projects was the lesswrong site lololol

    i'm surprised it's as well constructed a study as it is even given that

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

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  • wonder if that's why they tried and failed to change it to "squiggle maximizing"

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

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  • the comments are wild "yes good post having my brain taken over by a superintelligent autocomplete is a reasonable concern"

  • Vibe Coding

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  • it should be, but he's been actively promoting the stuff

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • all the stock sites are. use case: an image that's almost perfect but you wanna tweak it

    LEARN PAINT YOU GHOULS

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

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  • you should be read up on the gospel of @fasterandworse never shutting up about "Hooked"

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

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  • the psychology of loot boxes?

    yep! https://awful.systems/post/4568900

    the book is "Hooked" and it's Don't Build The Torment Nexus I'm Now Providing You A Detailed Blueprint Of

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • AI->cocaine filter: Cocaine isn’t going to replace you. Someone using cocaine is going to replace you.

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • this sort of bloody stupid metric is widespread, i've heard about it widely

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • I dabble in conversational AI for work

    yeah this may be the wrong sub for you

  • AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower

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  • these are stock images! Which are surprisingly cheap. By Valeriy Kachaev, who puts stuff up as Studiostoks on a pile of stock image sites. His pics are bizarre and keep being the perfect thing.