jonny (good kind)Apr 4
It was only a matter of time before some AI-addled guy saw me quoting fucked up parts of the Claude code source, thought it was my code, and say it was just a skill issue and I just need to {prompting superstition} but it finally happened.
Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4

man what is going on.

edit: since this post is spreading a bit further than I'm used to my posts spreading, I feel obliged to add: we have suspended this person for below racist comment and you may want to as well, and I am leaving this post up for moderation receipts purposes for now, but please do not go harass/brigade him.

Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4
i usually try not to dunkpost but i also usually don't get called little buddy
Show threadjonny (good kind)
i have not yet blocked because this guy is saying that claude code must have been written by hand because it has comments in it and i am utterly fascinated that kinds of guys like this can even exist
Apr 4 at 5:50amWeb
Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4
(suspended that guy for the racism ofc)
Show threadCap YbarraApr 4
@jonny @theropologist i think this dude saying racist bs is on our server too
Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4
@cap_ybarra @theropologist yeah i sent a report your way
Show threadtxtx 🇪🇺Apr 4

@jonny What's stopping execs at a bot company from unleashing waves of bots defending the quality of their AI code by claiming it's coded by humans?

(Just my theory. I can make up stories about AI, since they make up stories about humans all the time, right? It's only fair. )

Show threadLinaApr 4

@jonny
well, that was a fun ride until the inevitable racism

"the code sucks, but the comments are suspiciously great" is such an amazing way to endorse the source

Show threadLinaApr 4
@jonny
one of my first thoughts reading your big thread was that their only takeaway would be "well if claude is this amazing despite its superfund site of a codebase, imagine how amazing the next version will be!"
Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4
@lina i have this fear too and that is one of the reasons i gotta write this up
Show threadLinaApr 4

@jonny
maybe it'll dawn on them after the inevitable followup leak of an even more disastrous codebase...

or maybe the one after that.....

Show threadLinaApr 4
@jonny
(not being cynical about the great and important work you're doing here, just joking about the human embodiments of gullibility)
Show threadLinaApr 4
@jonny
self note: "number go up cult" doomy math rock band?
Show threadJeremy KahnApr 4

@lina @jonny

I'm in. Can I play bass?

Show threadLinaApr 4

@trochee
@jonny

hell yeah!

Show threadThibaultmol 🌈Apr 4

@jonny he also has other shit takes:

cw: anti-palestine
https://ohai.social/users/tuban_muzuru/statuses/115808345365484509

tuban_muzuru (@[email protected])

@[email protected] @[email protected] Palestine is an asylum for the criminally insane. The whole place. Everyone. Locked from the inside, standing on the outside everyone else yelling at them to stop fighting. Taking sides. Nobody wins. Everyone's guilty. Someone should just conquer and disarm them all, lunatics every one. Putin has been at war every day since he came to power. This war in Ukraine will end five minutes after he is dead and not one minute before. Most of leadership is just coping.

ohai.social
Show threadjonny (good kind)Apr 4
@thibaultmol it was a good suspend
Show threadCedric RossiApr 4
@jonny sure you were not talking with Grok ? 🤔
Show threadChris [list of emoji]Apr 4

@jonny

It's probably an agent trained on Anthropic corporate culture.

(Joking, but... Hmmmm...)

Show threadThe DoctorApr 4
@suetanvil @jonny At this point it would not surprise.
Show threadundeadApr 4

@jonny

TBH, I thought he was an LLM bot that someone gave prompts to gaslight you about the code, just to obfuscate the issue.

The "old man" jabber was too on-point without enough emotional reflection.

Show threadCondor Puma SerpienteApr 4
@jonny That's the most old man shit I've ever read lmfao
Show threadLuca HammerApr 4
@brad @jonny he even does the double space after punctuation stuff.
Show threadCondor Puma SerpienteApr 4
@luca @jonny there's something about "Go stand with the dummies" that is so funny to me
Show threaddraNgNonApr 4
@luca HEY, now, that's an independent axis @brad @jonny
Show threadLuca HammerApr 4
@draNgNon @brad @jonny Not sure if I correctly interpreted your comment. To me, using double spaces in the Fediverse in 2026 indicates unwillingness to change. Classic old man behavior.
Show threadZack WeinbergApr 4
@luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny I'm not claiming to not be an old man here, but two spaces after a period was the style when I learned to type so that's what my fingers do when I'm not thinking about it and it's such a trivial thing that I'm not going to put in the effort to rewire my fingers.
Show threadNickApr 4
@zwol Same, except I have actually tried to stop (just because it is unnecessary when not in physical print), but it's really hard; it's just deeply ingrained in my typing reflexes. @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny
Show threadZack WeinbergApr 4
@internic @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny There's actual research demonstrating that having a little extra space after sentence-ending punctuation does help readability, but the computer ought to be taking care of that for you (serious typesetting engines generally do, but browsers don't; this is one of the several typesetting-related things I *wanted* to tackle during my brief time at Mozilla but got nowhere with because I was unable to locate the code that would need to be changed).
Show threadNickApr 4
@zwol Right. On a computer my feeling is that I should indicate the semantics (a period followed by whitespace to indicate the end of the sentence), and then the layout should be determined separately (possibly with user-defined preferences in a browser). I know LaTeX will ignore multiple spaces after a period, and I actually thought HTML rendering generally ignored multiple spaces as well (unless you use the non-breaking space HTML entity or are inside a pre tag). @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny
Show threadEQ4d ago

@internic HTML ignores any white space including tab, space, new line and probably others in newer encodings I don't know about 🙂

So a nice book written in ascii with linebreaks and empty lines between paragraphs becomes just one long line-wrapping paragraph.

I learned touch-typing 35 years ago and then it was only one space after period so that might be country dependant just like date formats.

Show thread2xfo6d ago
@internic @zwol @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny
I thought it would be hard but it took me less than a week to change to one space after a period. (It saves paper if you print things too)
Show threadZack Weinberg6d ago
@RnDanger @internic @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny that's nice for you. my brain does not work that way.
Show threadThe DoctorApr 4
@zwol @luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny Echo that. There's nothing wrong with it. We're well past the age of 166 kb disks.
Show threadΩ 🌍 Gus Posey6d ago
@zwol Also, if people can write without punctuation, or capitalization, it means that any style is okay. If someone doesn't like it, tell them to go hopping sideways.
Show threadLog 🪵Apr 4
@luca @draNgNon @brad @jonny I am not old man. I am old log. That's way different. You can pry those double spaces separating sentences out of my cold, dead mycelium, and you cannot kill me in any way that matters, so.... Aaaanyway, I think the other account was a bot--an *old* bot. (Note my use of two hyphens to make an em dash, just like we used to do on the typewriters!)
Show threadJørnApr 4
@luca Unwillingness to change.. what exactly? For text to be read in monospace I actually prefer it.
Show threadLuca Hammer6d ago
@jornane How many people use mono space clients?
Show threadJørn6d ago
@luca I don't know, does it matter?
Show threadBredrollApr 4
@brad @jonny is not "old man shit" its "old maga shit"
Show threadDave RahardjaApr 4
@brad As on old man, I don’t claim him.
Show threadCondor Puma SerpienteApr 4
@drahardja Old man is a state of mind
Show threadJeremy KahnApr 4

@drahardja @brad

This right here.

Show threadjoriki Apr 4

@jonny

ick

Show threadJared White (ResistanceNet ✊)Apr 4

@jonny oh so he's racist as well as being brain-scrambled by bots.

Fun times!

Show threadNege Apr 4
@jonny "I know what will move my argument further: racism."
Show threadClaudius LinkApr 4

@theynege @jonny
Sorry, dummy question I'm afraid to ask 😬
(non native speaker)?
What is that racism here? The short form term?
Or is it on another post?

Edit: Ok, found it 😬🤢

Show threadLyksoApr 4
@jonny Well, using LLMs *has* been shown to have detrimental cognitive effects...
Show threadEggs now in different baskets.Apr 4
@lykso @jonny Computer assisted dementia?
Show threadHedgewizard 🐈Apr 4
@the_wub @lykso @jonny
I think they're calling it 'cognitive surrender'
Show threadtkissingApr 4
@lykso @jonny Pretty sure this dude was problematic before LLMs
Show threadThe DoctorApr 4
@lykso @jonny This.
Show threadCap YbarraApr 4
@jonny i'd say this was sad but sad was in our rear view an hour ago
Show threadRob RicciApr 4
@jonny there are more kinds of guys, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy
Show threadSamApr 4
@jonny Ahhh okay. Now THAT is just a racist.
Show threadGlyphApr 4
@jonny @SnoopJ wow you were not kidding with that cw, jesus
Show threadJaneishlyApr 4

@jonny This is a perfect example of mansplaining. Doesn't understand what you said, doesn't listen when you point that out, tells you not to worry your pretty head (little buddy), insists on completing his original point... And then when it finally dawns that he's been talking at cross purposes, he resorts to insults.

I don't think he missed a single characteristic. 10/10. Must be a real charmer to encounter IRL

Show threadJaneishlyApr 4
@jonny haha, I went to his profile to block him but I already had! What are the chances?! Clearly not his first venture into complete arsehole territory.
Show threadStephen Bannasch (316 ppm)Apr 4

@janeishly @jonny

I checked and I had already blocked both of profiles ;-)

Show threadWeird Socks6d ago
@janeishly
I'm kind of shocked he's on beige.party.
Has he been reported to that guy, yet?
Show threadNagaramApr 4

@jonny

Love me a man who's confident in something with absolutely no experience with that thing.

Claude generates the most useless comments lmao

Show threadDave RahardjaApr 4
@jonny Ignorant *and* racist: a frequent correlation!
Show threadThe Drop Bear 2.0 Apr 4
@jonny and he adds in some racism, just for funsies!