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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026

https://awful.systems/post/7852082

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 12th April 2026 - awful.systems

Want to wade into the 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. 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 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.)

Show threadsamvines5d ago

Claude Mythos… I’m already sick of hearing about it. The self-imposed critihype is insane.

A friend just pointed out that Anthropic are making all this big noise about having an AI that is “too good” at finding bugs and security problems 1 week after the source code for one of their flagship products was leaked to the public and was found to be riddled with security holes… Why would they not use it themselves?

Same as the vague markdown files skills that are supposedly going to make all SaaS redundant and finally kill off all the COBOL running on mainframes that checks notes IBM have spent hundreds of thousands of man hours trying to kill over the last 3-4 decades

Honestly fuck this shit. Bunch of absolute xlowns 🤡 🤡 🤡

Show threadV0ldek5d ago
The fuck is Mythos?
Show threadantifuchs5d ago
Is it their next model that tbey swear isn’t vaporware but no! It is too dangerous to release into the world because it’ll find too much insecure code or whatever.
Show threadV0ldek5d ago
Okay but like is it materially different than whatever the current Claude thing is or did they just pump the size of the matrix?
Show threadsamvines5d ago
Probably a markdown file telling it “you are a l33t h4x0r”
Show threadV0ldek5d ago

Okay but that’s already in Claude

Show threadwizardbeard

I still laugh every time I see that this is what qualifies as proper “tuning” and “security controls” for these things.

I had hoped that with the whole “agent” push that we would start seeing more sane usage, like having AI be a fuzzy logic step in a chain of formal logic and existing deterministic tools, but the cult still has people treating them like reliable second brains. They’re used as the baseline fucking orchestrator rather than anywhere they might make a bit of sense.

Apr 11 at 5:07pmWeb
Show threadscruiser2d ago

I had hoped that with the whole “agent” push that we would start seeing more sane usage, like having AI be a fuzzy logic step in a chain of formal logic and existing deterministic tools

I think this is the best you can expect out of LLMs, and the relatively more successful “agentic” AI efforts are probably doing exactly this, but their relative success is serving as hype fuel for the more impossible promises of LLMs. Also, if you have formal logic and deterministic tools wrapping and sanity checking the LLM bits… I think the value add of evaporating rivers and firing up jet turbines to power “cutting edge” models that only screw up 1% of the time isn’t there because you can run a open weight model 1/100th the size that screws up 10% of the time instead.

And to be clear I still think this is really generous to the use case of smaller LMs.