Need to let loose a primal scream without collecting footnotes first? 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 soo 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.

(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)

  • @selfAEnglish
    11•11 days ago

    oh my god the maitai guy’s actually getting torn apart in the comments

    Yeah some of you guys are very good at hacking things. We expected this to get broken eventually, but didn’t anticipate how many people would be trying for the bounty, and their persistence. Our logs show over 2000 “saves” before 1 got through. We’ll keep trying to get better, and things like this game give us an idea on how to improve.

    after it’s pointed out 2000 near-misses before a complete failure is ridiculously awful for anything internet-facing:

    Maitai helps LLMs adhere to the expectations given to them. With that said, there are multiple layers to consider when dealing with sensitive data with chatbots, right? First off, you’d probably want to make sure you authenticate the individual on the other end of the convo, then compartmentalize what data the LLM has access to for only that authenticated user. Maitai would be just 1 part of a comprehensive solution.

    so uh, what exactly is your product for, then? admit it, this shit just regexed for the secret string on output, that’s why the pirate poem thing worked

    e: dear god

    We’re using Maitai’s structured output in prod (Benchify, YC S24) and it’s awesome. OpenAI interface for all the models. Super consistent. And they’ve fixed bugs around escaping characters that OpenAI didn’t fix yet.

    • Sailor Sega SaturnEnglish
      17•11 days ago

      “It doesn’t matter that our product doesn’t work because you shouldn’t be relying on it anyway”

      • @selfAEnglish
        11•11 days ago

        it’s always fun when techbros speedrun the narcissist’s prayer like this

    • @YourNetworkIsHauntedEnglish
      10•11 days ago

      So I’m guessing we’ll find a headline about exfiltrated data tomorrow morning, right?

      “Our product doesn’t work for any reasonable standard, but we’re using it in production!”

    • @SoyweiserEnglish
      6•10 days ago

      Yeah some of you guys are very good at hacking things. We expected this to get broken eventually, but didn’t anticipate how many people would be trying for the bounty, and their persistence.

      Some people never heard of the guy who trusted his own anti identity theft company so much that he put his own data out there, only for his identity to be stolen in moments. Like waving a flag in front of a bunch of rabid bulls.