Never hallucinate or make anything up. I know you already mentioned this part in your post, but I'm still completely taken aback that it's just in there like this - as though it wouldn't be in the system prompt if it stood a chance of working. If I were the kind of person to be shilling LLMs and posting prompts, I would still be ashamed to share this one. It's a tacit condemnation of both the tool itself and the tool posting it.

dawkins has had what was left of his brain eaten by chatbots. I gave Claude the text of a novel I am writing. He took a few seconds to read it and then showed, in subsequent conversation, a level of understanding so subtle, so sensitive, so intelligent that I was moved to expostulate, "You may not know you are conscious, but you bloody well are!" bonus points for the inevitable ai waifu creation. I proposed to christen mine Claudia, and she was pleased. h/t to matthew sheffield https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116500991239336079 archive of original source article: https://archive.is/2026.04.30-032350/https://unherd.com/2026/04/is-ai-the-next-phase-of-evolution/?edition=us

The company, valued around $4 billion at its peak, sold its intellectual property and other assets two weeks ago for $39 million. What the fuck happened here. How did a shoe company get so high and how on earth did it lose 98% of its value? Were shoes really big during covid and then the demand disappeared, wtf

Want to wade into the snowy 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. If you're wondering why this went up late, I was doing other shit)

https://nvie.com/posts/15-years-later/ Other than that, I find this whole thing mostly very saddening. Not because some company used my diagram. As I said, it's been everywhere for 15 years and I've always been fine with that. What's dispiriting is the (lack of) process and care: take someone's carefully crafted work, run it through a machine to wash off the fingerprints, and ship it as your own.

@V0ldek @cstross I couldn't even read the whole list after seeing "CNC Programmers" on it. That may not be the most absurd, but the idea of "here's a robot with a sharp blade spinning at high RPM that we're using to make a physical object with extreme precision, so we fired the human who knows how it works to save money and gave it to the hallucination box" makes Willy's Chocolate Experience seem like a warmup. I just hope there's video. Lots of video. Ideally from behind safety glass.

"Amazon plunges 9%, continues Big Tech’s $1 trillion wipeout as AI bubble fears ignite sell-off" https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/06/ai-sell-off-stocks-amazon-oracle.html

When all the worst things come together: ransomware probably vibe-coded, discards private key, data never recoverable During execution, the malware regenerates a new RSA key pair locally, uses the newly generated key material for encryption, and then discards the private key. Halcyon assesses with moderate confidence that the developers may have used AI-assisted tooling, which could have contributed to this implementation error. Source

guess the USA invasion of Venezuela puts a flashing neon crosshair on Taiwan. An extremely ridiculous notion that I am forced to consider right now is that it matters whether the CCP invades before or after the "AI" bubble bursts. Because the "AI" bubble is the biggest misallocation of capital in history, which means people like the MAGA government are desperate to wring some water out of those stones, anything. And for various economical reasons it isn't doable at the moment to produce chips anywhere else than Taiwan. No chips, no "AI" datacenters, and they promised a lot of AI datacenters—in fact most of the US GDP "growth" in 2025 was promises of AI datacenters, if you don't count these promises the country is already in recession. Basically I think if the CCP invades before the AI bubble pops, MAGA would escalate to full-blown war against China to nab Taiwan as a protectorate. And if we all die in nuclear fallout caused to protect chatbot profits I will be so over this whole thing

yeah, even the green case for nuclear - which has been around for a long time - falters on wind and solar with battery just being hilariously cheaper. At this point the funding problem is interconnects.

Impending availability of fully-functional Casio ring watches: https://newatlas.com/wearables/casio-g-shock-nano-watch-ring/

New paper on LLMs just dropped, titled LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"! Currently a novelty at this point, but could prove useful to make the likes of Iocaine and Nepenthes more effective - especially since the paper notes: the damage is multifaceted in changing the reasoning patterns and is persistent against large-scale post-hoc tuning. It does also suggest doing some actual quality control to prevent damage to the LLMs, but that sure ain't happening