It’s depressing how so many (pathetic) software devs are taking their hands off the steering wheel and letting LLMs do all the driving. If you think software quality was poor before LLMs, there’s no way it could have been worse than shit like this:

This became very apparent with GPT 5.6 Sol. It, too, was widely hailed to have near-Fable level intelligence. But I used it non-stop for a week and realized that they had mostly just dialed up the relentlessness meter to eleven, most likely via heavy RLHF.

Last week I gave it a small-sized auth ticket to work on, then stepped away. I came back later that afternoon and found that it had worked for 3+ hours and written 25,000+ lines of code. I skimmed over the code and it looked like a small fix followed by a massive number of additional checks around it, including static analysis tooling.

I gave it to another GPT 5.6 and said “check this code and see if it addresses the ticket”. It looked at it and said that 98% of it was garbage and should be thrown away (its own words). I then gave it to Fable, which said it was massively over-engineered. Fable’s theory was that the agent implemented the fix first, but then compacted and lost crucial context, forgot what the original task was about, and kept going. After many compaction cycles it was completely lost.

I’m not regretting not getting back to the Frame Fellowship on their offer to join their indoctrination programme.

I understand your sentiment, but part of me wants you to take up the offer if only to waste their money and create some awkward moments for LWers.

I can’t stand the idea that the Anthropic IPO could end up funding these people to the tune of millions of dollars.

Please, AI bubble, pop sooner.

As a visualization of how wild this could be, look at some Youtube videos of video game speedruns, such as this one of beating Minecraft in 20 seconds.

Now imagine this applied to all domains of science, technology, and the economy.

Tell me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old without telling me you have the mental maturity of a 12 year old.

Rationalism is a magnet for unwell people. It’s sad.

Steven Bartlett barely has 3 brain cells to rub together, so this seems like the perfect outlet for Kokotajlo’s message.

Her account is just another reminder that – apart from race science – nothing goes better together with rationalism than social cluelessness.

Clown v. Clown. This is about the level of discourse Yud deserves.

What about the git commit messages for the Microsoft PM who vibe-coded all these changes. Were they also accompanied by a “Co-Authored by GitHub” message? Because that’d be hilarious if they weren’t.

McKenzie has got to be one of the worst writers I’ve ever come across.

<thousands of words of blather>

We will return to the other reason in a moment.

<thousands of words of blather>

We return from this flight of fancy to the indictment.

<thousands of words of blather>

Why? We’ll return to it in a minute.

I didn’t make it to the end, because I’m not going to waste that much time reading tens of thousands of words of fascist-supporting bullshit.

You and me both. The deluge of shitty AI slop code is never-ending. Unfortunately, software companies are going to have to start going under before anything gets done about it.

You thought software quality was poor before LLMs? You ain’t seen nothing yet.

Typical mentality on the orange site:

I don’t think I’ve read a single line of code I’ve shipped in over 6 months.

The back-and-forth between Gwen and LessWrong commenters is getting spicy. This definitely deserves a top-level post on SneerClub.

Habryka’s all, “Dammit, why do you have to come here and remind everyone where the Zizians came from?”

EDIT: This person also seems to have no concept of the finality of death, which might explain why the Zizians were so murdery.

Every day, HN users flag into oblivion anything mildly critical of the technological dystopia these tech-bros are trying to manifest. “Politics!” they cry. But Sam Altman comes along with an OpenAI marketing piece dressed up as a condemnation of political violence, and suddenly “politics” are a perfectly acceptable topic. dang has long made it clear whose side he’s on.

Oh, and I hope everyone noted how quickly Sam used this incident as an excuse to place blame on the reporters who published the New Yorker piece that was mildly critical of him:

Words have power too. There was an incendiary article about me a few days ago. Someone said to me yesterday they thought it was coming at a time of great anxiety about AI and that it made things more dangerous for me. I brushed it aside.

He really is insufferable, isn’t he?

Depending on your DNS provider, you may not be able to use archive.today without infinite captchas. I believe Cloudflare (1.1.1.1) and NextDNS are affected this way. Google (8.8.8.8) apparently is not.

Looks like they’re using the standard blue/orange color scheme

Nick Land goes to Silicon Valley.

Fake journalist with AI slop avatar and slop credentials starts rising in Substack’s “politics” rankings, someone asks the Substack CEO what they’re going to do about it, and gets told to pound sand.