GoKawiilSeptember 16th, 2026
Men. Some would rather vomit up a rambling blog post wall of text that nobody's going to read than go to therapy. So here we are.
I've seen my share of stupid over the years, but now people with no engineering background have started pitching "industry changing" solutions they cooked up in their agent infested homelab; people's emails read like bozotic LinkedIn-fluencer posts with punchy "it's not this, it's that" single-sentence paragraphs; online articles suffer a similar fate in their own convergence on Meh; and half of the people you interact with have turned into meat proxies.
Spending upwards of 75% of my time directly or indirectly dealing with AI every day has absolutely robbed me of most of my enjoyment of my work. Most days feel like that Twilight Zone where you wake up and you're the same, but everyone else is different. (They were all like that.)
"Ethics aside..."
The cyber hype train has been going "choo choo" for a while, with the main AI companies trying to one-up each other committing crimes and somehow we let them; the conscious choice of anthropomorphic language by the companies is adapted unquestioned by the media, thereby absolving AI companies of their incompetence to secure their programs.
Built on unapologetic exploitation of intellectual property and concentrating power in the hands of a very small number of US companies and oligarchs, these AI models not only lend themselves to generation of Child Sexual Abuse Material—a product feature for logged-in users— 1 but our continued use of them also directly supports their role in, e.g., military target selection, such as elementary schools.
Meanwhile, every single company is happy to "ethics aside..." all of that and spend unimaginable amounts of "tokens"—a made-up currency following the casino model 2 —while staring at you blankly when you ask whether anybody has bothered to check if that support chatbot you vibe coded and which you fed all of your very mediocre at best "documentation" has any ROI. 3
Project Sisyphus
"Frontier Models" and AI-assisted vulnerability research is another topic with questionable results. Anthropic and OpenAI tried to one-up each other with how dangerous their models are and everybody who considers themselves an industry leader is now part of some mysteriously named "project" (like Glasswing and Daybreak, or Athena and Akrites) or co-signed various open letters (like this or this) to signal just how much they're totally not left out.
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