Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 - awful.systems
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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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high. > The post Xitter web has spawned so many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be) > > Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them. (Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

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 youā€™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 cutā€™nā€™paste it into its own post ā€” thereā€™s no quota for posting and the bar really isnā€™t that high.

The post Xitter web has spawned so many ā€œesotericā€ right wing freaks, but thereā€™s no appropriate sneer-space for them. Iā€™m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged ā€œculture criticsā€ who write about everything but understand nothing. Iā€™m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. Theyā€™re inescapable at this point, yet I donā€™t see them mocked (as much as they should be)

Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldnā€™t be surgeons because they didnā€™t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I canā€™t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.

(Credit and/or blame to David Gerard for starting this.)

  • samvines@awful.systemsEnglish
    13Ā·
    1 month ago

    5 Tools You Can Vibe Code For Your Business In Under An Hour exactly the sort of slop from someone with a hard-on for AI, no understanding of the risks of vibe coding core parts of your businessā€™ infrastructure and guest writes for Forbes would produce.

    Starts with a sickening intro that leans into ā€œpilledā€ to be ā€œdown with the kidsā€

    If you havenā€™t joined the Claudepilled crowd, open an account and play.

    Bright ideas include ā€œcopy and paste the source code from your home page into Claudeā€ but overlooks the how to actually get those changes deployed part.

    Wanna see my cool website. Itā€™s at http://localhost:1234/ take that web developers!

    Then she describes building a custom internal dashboardā€¦

    Open Claude Code and describe your business. List every software tool you use. Ask it to suggest the key metrics youā€™d want to see from each one. Go back and forth until the list feels right. Then give it your brand guidelines and ask it to build a dashboard that displays everything. Ask for it to be password protected.

    Yes that sounds like a great idea and not a car crash waiting to happen

    She also describes building a customer facing onboarding site

    Build a custom client-facing dashboard instead. Tell Claude Code what your onboarding process looks like step by step. Describe what information you need to collect and what your clients need to access. Ask it to build a secure portal they can log into, with automations that send them what they need and follow up to collect what you need. This is a branded, professional experience that scales without you. The emotional design matters here too: you want clients to feel held, not herded. Tell Claude that.

    Yes vibe coded customer facing tools are a fantastic idea and definitely not a vector for cyber attacks nuh-uh. Iā€™m sure it will be fine if you ask for it to be ā€œsecureā€ right?

    FML are we in the twilight zone here?

    • istewart@awful.systemsEnglish
      10Ā·
      1 month ago

      guest writes for Forbes would produce.

      I seriously think we can completely dismiss Forbes as a credible source at this point, even if itā€™s not something coming from, ahem, ā€œcontributorsā€

    • YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systemsEnglish
      10Ā·
      1 month ago

      Ask for it to be password protected.

      I think Iā€™m having a stroke. Or at least I hope Iā€™m having a stroke and that this unparodiably dumb piece isnā€™t any more real than it sounds.