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Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th June 2025
  • https://www.gauntletai.com/

    10 weeks of 100h work weeks so you can have a 98% (publically disclosed) chance of being denied a Golden Ticket to the AI factory.

    This is very weird but not particularly notable, other than that these guys have apparently been YC funded in 2017, and I can't find anything about the company in the directory: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies?batch=Summer+2017... until I looked at the CEO's name. Lambda School Bloom Institute GauntletAI's latest pivot is asking for 1000 hours of voluntary unpaid labour.

    e: apologies for the vaguepost, I could've sworn I put down the name, but in any case, it's the return of PG's favourite guy not named Sam Altman, Austen Allred

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 8th June 2025
  • This almost reads like tptacek doesn't understand why lucidity's piece a year ago was so effective and tried to write it from the opposite angle by punching down instead of punching up.

    I'd have thought that a guy who writes on the internet like it's a competition sport could recognize the obvious problems of this, but maybe I'm just a vibe coding Youtuber.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025
  • I don't get it, how is every one of the most touted people in the AI space among the least credible people in the industry.

    Like literally every time its a person whose name I recognize from something else they've done, that something else is something I hate.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 1st June 2025
  • Reminds me something F.D. Signifier said on a music podcast.

    Progressives are losing the cultural war in a lot of ways, but they'll always need us because we're the ones pushing the boundaries on art, and it turns out, no matter how ghoulish people want to act, everyone has genuine love of fucking awesome art. The true loss condition is being captured by the tools of the master.

  • eating our own dogshit
  • If you're referring to genetic algorithms, those work by giving the computer some type of target to gun for that's easy to measure and then letting the computer go loose with randomly changing bits from the original object. I guess in your mind, that'd be randomly evolving the codebase and then submitting the best version.

    There's a lot of problems with the idea of genetic codebase that I'm sure you can figure out on your own, but I'll give you one for free: "better code" is a very hard thing for computers to measure.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 23rd March 2025
  • https://github.com/TecharoHQ/anubis/issues/50 and of course we already have chatgptfriends on the case of stopping the mean programmer from doing something the Machine doesn't like. This person doesn't even seem to understand what anubis does, but they certainly seem confident chatgpt can tell him.

  • Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 16th February 2025
    1. My big robot is really expensive to build.

    2. If big robot parts become cheaper, I will declare that the big robot must be bigger, lest somebody poorer than me also build a big robot.

    3. My robot must be made or else I won't be able to show off the biggest, most expensive big robot.

    QED, I deserve more money to build the big robot.

    P.S. And for the naysayers, just remember that that robot will be so big that your critiques won't apply to it, as it is too big.

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