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OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that? in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 7 hours ago

including Sam

Claude Code codebase is leaked in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 3 points 7 hours ago

jonny's thread is sheer awesome

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Claude Code codebase is leaked (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Anthropic: ‘human error, not a security breach’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpkyF-ugVq4&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260401-claude-code-codebase-leaked - podcast

time: 8 min 19 sec

GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

So MS claims, that they don't have ad deals for this!

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GitHub Copilot puts ads into pull requests (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Microsoft: ‘product tips’, not ‘ads’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMhSgFgwG80&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260331-github-copilot-puts-ads-into-pull-requests - podcast

time: 5 min 46 sec

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OpenAI offers 17.5% on venture deal! How can it do that? (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

By not guaranteeing it in any way

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C2Wp5ZUg1yo&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260330-openai-offers-a-175-return-on-a-venture-deal-how-can-it-do-that - podcast

time: 4 min 47 sec

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The AI bubble and the global polycrisis (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Everything is screwed. But how screwed?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VT065qgThlE&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260327-the-ai-bubble-and-the-global-polycrisis - podcast

time: 8 min 01 sec

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BuzzFeed goes AI — then it goes broke (pivot-to-ai.com)
submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by dgerard@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems
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go slop, go flop

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwt54FUmKLI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260326-buzzfeed-goes-ai-then-it-goes-broke - podcast

time: 5 min 45 sec

OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 13 points 1 week ago

a Mickey Mouse camera, obviously

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OpenAI shuts down Sora video — Disney deal off (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

pivoting from video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kz4dppUJr0U&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260325-openai-shuts-down-sora-video-disney-deal-off - podcast

time: 6 min 02 sec

Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

yesterdays' news just in, no we won't

OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 2 points 1 week ago

Covered one attempt already!

https://awful.systems/post/7387786

Trouble is the sort of investment that's uncorrelated right up to the moment you need it to be, at which point it crashes in lockstep

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Walmart dumps OpenAI at the checkout (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

the customers? not so convinced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRr99-BH_sk&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260324-walmart-dumps-openai-at-the-checkout - podcast

time: 4 min 20 sec

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Layoffs don’t boost the share price — they drop it (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

‘Restructuring’ gets a 7% hit, ‘AI’ only a 2% hit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM2ck27fJhI&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260323-layoffs-dont-boost-the-share-price-they-drop-it - podcast

time: 4 min 18 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 11 points 1 week ago

if you use Rust enough it just grows like that

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 14 points 1 week ago (4 children)

fig. 1: @self hard at work keeping awful systems up and running

from Unix World 1985. enterprise computing was so much more fun in those days

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OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceX to trash stock market IPOs for 2026 (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

venture capital discovers there’s no exit

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THMhJd3XMhQ&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260320-openai-anthropic-spacex-to-trash-stock-market-ipos - podcast

time: 6 min 41 sec

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 1 week ago

But along the way, he found a way to take estrogen wrong

Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 22nd March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
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Companies go full AI — then the bill comes due (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

Microsoft will pay you tomorrow for a token today

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBEOdoYs8v8&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260319-companies-go-full-ai-then-the-bill-comes-due - podcast

time: 8 min 01 sec

Aella's Influence on Rationalist Kink Practices (cursed phrase) in c/sneerclub@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 7 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

and somehow I'm declared enemy #1

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Facebook shutting down its Horizon Worlds VR Metaverse (pivot-to-ai.com)
 

the Metaverse just didn’t have legs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4Hm95rQYpM&list=UU9rJrMVgcXTfa8xuMnbhAEA - video
https://pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260318-facebook-shutting-down-horizon-worlds-vr - podcast

time: 6 min 29 sec

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Kai Lentit: Interview with a sweating AI CEO (2026) (www.youtube.com)
Stubsack: weekly thread for sneers not worth an entire post, week ending 15th March 2026 in c/techtakes@awful.systems
[–] dgerard@awful.systems 1 points 2 weeks ago

They are indeed all run by the same people.

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