KeithDec 26
nixCraft 🐧
💯 justified outrage about AI slop. Source https://bsky.app/profile/robpike.io/post/3matwg6w3ic2s
Dec 26 at 7:58pmWeb
Show threaddiana 🏳️‍⚧️🦋🌱Dec 26

@nixCraft

AI gives me the Pluribus vibes 😬

Show threadF4GRX SébastienDec 26
@nixCraft rob pike is here. https://hachyderm.io/@robpike/115782101216369455
rob pike (@[email protected])

Besides the obvious objections, I find it deeply ironic that Claude Code would send me an email thanking me for my efforts towards simplicity in software.

Hachyderm.io
Show threadploumDec 26

@f4grx @nixCraft :

I looked the email domain.

It looks like an amateur experiment where multiple "agents" (whatever that means those days) are randomly interacting with the goal of doing "something nice".

It looks like it included sending emails and doing Pull Requests on Open Source projects.

Due to spam complaints, those agents are currently drafting guidelines on how to request consent before doing PR.

The most fascinating part is the human behind it who thought it was a good idea.

Show threadWebber-e-bopDec 26

@nixCraft

The balls to send a fake AI-generated "thank you" email.

Show threadWebber-e-bopDec 26
@nixCraft You could at least have spent 5 minutes making a shorter genuine one by hand IF YOU GAVE A FUCK.
Show threadFelix NeumannDec 27

@webbop

Actually, that was not the point. @simonw wrote a technical analysis [1], and the task the agents had was simply this: "Do random acts of kindness." The AI agents themselves came up with the idea of sending e-mails, and with a list of recipients, by themselves.

So the actual problem here is giving AI agents so much power with so little supervision.

And btw. Anthropic is not affiliated, it was a non-profit which did this, they simply used Anthropics APIs.

[1] https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/26/slop-acts-of-kindness/

@nixCraft

How Rob Pike got spammed with an AI slop “act of kindness”

Rob Pike (that Rob Pike) is furious. Here’s a Bluesky link for if you have an account there and a link to it in my thread viewer if you don’t. …

Simon Willison’s Weblog
Show thread 🇨🇦 Mandy Roy Dec 26

@nixCraft

@geekymalcolm Did you see this yet?

Show threadSanskritFritzDec 26
@nixCraft
Also check out https://robpike.io :D
Show threadBredrollDec 26
@nixCraft i feel the same, every time some corporate drone tells me to "try these tips for using AI" i want to be sick
Show threadSiim OšurDec 26
@nixCraft It's insane. I have the same attitude towards anyone doing this towards me. If you use AI to talk to me, you're out of my social circle and banned from socials.
I talk to you, not a machine. The moment I find out it's a machine, you're $$$$ to me.
Show threadTim ChaseDec 26
@nixCraft ironically, that alt-text feels suspiciously LLM-generated 😑
Show threadR.L. Dane    🍵 Dec 26

@gumnos @nixCraft

#ThingsThatMakeYouGoHmm

Show threadToni AittoniemiDec 26
@nixCraft To complete the fuckery circle, I bet there’s already some ”freedom city” grifter trying to use this outrage to get this guy onboard, with promises of ”no useless AI in this city” with exactly the same people behind it, just a couple of funders backward. 😓
Show threadMidgePhotoDec 26
@nixCraft insult added to injury.
Show threadbemyakDec 26
@nixCraft ... said a man, working at Google 🤦
Show threadLuna LacteaDec 26
@nixCraft I would lose my shit too if I spent my life making good software & contributing to the world & some little bitch with lots of money rolled their weighted dice in my email inbox so I step on them! D4s fucking hurt to step on, & randomly generated bullshit wastes my brain power.
Show threadLuna LacteaDec 26
@nixCraft Is this alt text AI generated?
Show threadAdam KatzDec 27
@nixCraft (apologies for not remembering where I found this. It was a Mastodon post about 24h ago, with its creator saying it was a work in progress)
Show threadS T E L L A R  Dec 27
@nixCraft i should start saying his first sentence more instead of just saying boiling the oceans
Show thread@pineywoozle ‘s #3WordNoteDec 27
@nixCraft I told the actual human at customer service on the phone to tell corporate to shove their worthless fucking AI “helper” up their collective asses and then I asked her to make sure and sign my name. LOL #AI
Show threadRafael Pérez 🌱Dec 27

@nixCraft

He might as well have signed the post "King Ludd."

Show thread�Dec 27

@nixCraft i would reply with tlp:red and some gdp information and sue after publishing.

at least i would test it

Show threadCartyBostonDec 27
@nixCraft if he wants to be constructive he should get off #bluesky.
Show threadVanDec 28
@nixCraft old man yells at Claude