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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th November 2026 (awful.systems)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) by BlueMonday1984@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems

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(I get the feeling we're close to this bubble's end.)

Anyways, welcome to the Stubsack, your first port of call for learning fresh Awful you’ll near-instantly regret.

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 soo 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.)

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[–] samvines@awful.systems 10 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Happy Saturday. Pleas enjoy a very schadenfreude GitHub issue

[–] pikesley@mastodon.me.uk 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

@samvines @BlueMonday1984 wait is this guy blaming it on using the wrong version of the idiot robot?

https://github.com/openai/codex/issues/59060#issuecomment-6601721599

[–] samvines@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago

You haven't tried shutting down a remote server and having it wipe out the remote machine instead in the last 3 hours? Omg bro the newest models would never make that mistake! Just one more model bro!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 5 points 1 day ago

That should cause an issue like this I assume.

[–] lagrangeinterpolator@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago

But Sam Altman said AI is smarter than the smartest human scientists! I wasn't expecting shutting down a server to be one of the deep, intractable mysteries of the universe, but here we are.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Should have taken the effort to type 'shutdown -r now' yourself.

Prob even quicker than asking an llm.

[–] Architeuthis@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ιt could have been part of a larger thing where it made sense to want to keep evidence of the shutdown in the chat context.

It's not like they design or promote these things in any way that encourages user initiative, can't have full cognitive surrender if the user is running system commands on the side.

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Good point, had not thought about that. And that makes, in a way stuff even worse, as when it goes wrong people go all 'skill issue' despite the systems being designed and marketed for full cognitive surrender.

[–] istewart@awful.systems 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I will assert again that ~nobody who claims that prompting is a skilled practice also offers a guide to how to develop that skillset. And it would be effectively the same claim as having cracked the use of English as a computer programming language, so it should be pretty easy to produce that guide, right? Anthropic should have this shit front and center! First clickable link on their front page!

[–] Soyweiser@awful.systems 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yeah, coding guides are everywhere (or used to be at least, more and more seem to be shutting down due to declining sales + increased costs due to scraping).

Never saw anybody offer a link to a guide like that.

Hell coding has Become a Programmer, Motherfucker which isn't just one guide, but an entire list of guides, and it even uses (old but checks out) meme to diversify itself from other people offering the same.

(I checked, the guy, despite still being on twitter, is still doing his thing trying to help people to learn how to code, his stance on AI wasn't totally clear after a short glance, he is however a gamer angry about bad UI implementations (I can totally relate)).