Want to wade into the ~~snowy~~ sandy surf of the abyss? Have a sneer percolating in your system but not enough time/energy to make a whole post about it? Go forth and be mid.
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Any awful.systems sub may be subsneered in this subthread, techtakes or no.
If your sneer seems higher quality than you thought, feel free to cut’n’paste it into its own post — there’s no quota for posting and the bar really isn’t that high.
The post Xitter web has spawned so many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)
This thread by Johnny reading (skimming on a phone, hah) through it is really good.
If only literally any human with context and a small screen to look at the bigger picture was involved with decisions around taking this to production, it would … still be bad but only on a societal level.
That was great, thank you! Full respect to this absolute maniac for tracing some of the spaghetti, I was definitely not going to try that on my phone.
They've validated most gut feelings I had about how Claude works (and doesn't), based on my experience having to use it. I'm feeling pretty smug that my hunches now have definitive code attributions.
But the one unfortunate part about all of this is that this leak and the ensuing justified sneers about specific bits are going to be fed back in to their codebase to fix some of the gaping holes. It's an embarrassing indictment of the product, but it's also free pre-IPO pentesting. Sort of like their open source pull request slop spam "undercover mode" was probably used as a way to extract free labor in the form of reviews from actually competent developers. This doesn't seem as planned though.