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Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

a clown car of clown cars that deploys another clown car, that explodes

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnFKkBBzpVg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250829-vibe-coded-build-system-nx-steals-vibe-coders-crypto - podcast

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

SICP, not SCP

We should rethink how we teach people to code in c/notawfultech@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 21 hours ago

IoM cribs from the ENC, here's to them cribbing that bit! See if you can get in there ...

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Deloitte Australia writes government report with AI — and fake references (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olG8wvK8SpA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 8 points 1 day ago

Tom is a top chap of generally correct opinions

We should rethink how we teach people to code in c/notawfultech@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

The English national curriculum exposes every child to programming of some sort. 10 years ago it was 8yo kids learning Scratch, all of them.

I posted about it at the time: it turns out scratch is probably the answer, scratch is probably still the answer

in high school maths and computers they learn python.

my kid has no wish to become a professional dev, but can wield python as is useful to them.

SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 2 days ago (4 children)

OpenAI lasts as long as Masayoshi Son can scam Saudi Arabia. Suddenly my 2027 thesis looks more solid. Fuck.

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SoftBank needs OpenAI to stay alive — no matter what (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

in this episode I explain the numbers that require SoftBank to keep OpenAI alive past all reason: they're spending real money to achieve imaginary private equity valuations and this was enough to make their stock go up. So they can't stop.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTYxEVRiCvM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250827-softbank-needs-openai-to-stay-alive-no-matter-what - podcast

Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI! in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

it's the most aggressively useless way to add copilot to excel

"I love it!!"

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 3 days ago

there's having a favourite animal, then there's whatever this is

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Excel COPILOT: make up spreadsheet numbers with AI! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM_dJhsLqyg&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250826-excel-copilot-make-up-spreadsheet-numbers-with-ai - podcast

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 31st August 2025 - awful.systems in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

yes, instead they use Scott's and just keep typing forever

26
Perplexity’s AI browser Comet can be prompt-injected by any website (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ji3nP9EHINo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250825-perplexitys-ai-web-browser-prompt-injected-by-any-website - podcast

AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 5 points 5 days ago

oh absolutely. there's a lot of mathematicians who have discovered there's fucking buckets of money right now, and it's all gonna dry up. hope they're socking it away while they can.

Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 6 points 5 days ago (1 children)

that's what we used to say about crypto

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 5 days ago

good news is the economy will collapse anyway, Wall St is running a multipronged scam economy right now

the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

it is not

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Commonwealth Bank fires, un-fires call centre staff over AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kpSHDx0KZA&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250824-commonwealth-bank-fires-un-fires-call-centre-staff-over-ai - podcast

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the quantum hype bandwagon is rolling out (www.ft.com)
submitted 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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the VCs are pushing the quantum hype again. this is an FT editorial

(archive.is isn't working for me, anyone wanna post an archive link)

note lack of citation of actual results, a ton of handwaving about big companies, repeated "could," and the earliest date postulated is 2033

many of the important requirements for a VC bubble party

the tech press has been loaded with this shit, just a fuckin flood of it, all this nonspecific and glossing over the lack of mere existing tech in the present day

note that this has nothing to do with actual quantum computing, this is purely how to set up the tech macguffin for a bubble party

pretty good for a thing that is real - but doesn't exist as a technology yet or any time soon

bsky:

Tired: cloud computing

Wired: could computing

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AI winter is in the air! But we think the AI bubble keeps going until 2027 (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp1-3Ypmr1Y&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250823-ai-winter-is-in-the-air-we-still-think-it-has-until-2027 - podcast

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Prompt-inject an AI chatbot with … an image! (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘What is this chatbot vulnerable to?’ ‘Yes.’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug5kTJrKeTM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250822-prompt-inject-an-ai-chatbot-with-an-image - podcast

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MIT on enterprise AI: 95% failure, 5% spam. That Fortune article? The paper's authors are web3 crypto bros (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9vgYq22Q5A&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250821-mit-on-enterprise-ai-95-failure-5-spam - podcast

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Surveys the easy way: fake your data with an AI chatbot (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SmqnrX6zsc&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250820-surveys-the-easy-way-fake-your-data-with-an-ai-chatbot - podcast

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Spreadshirt to artists: We’re taking your designs for AI (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

(‘it is currently not possible to opt out of the AI function’)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xvWPfVFMdx4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20250819-spreadshirt-to-artists-were-taking-your-design-for-ai - podcast

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