iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 19/09/2026

i was recently asked to write a short story that illustrates the idea of agentic coding for the upper management. ---- It was 5 PM on a Friday. Checkout was throwing errors in prod. Chad sent the agent one line: "find out why and fix it." Closed his laptop, and left to pick up his kid.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 16/09/2026

i’ve joined dario and sam in pausing any further development of ai. i don’t have enough hardware.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 15/09/2026

just use copilot. we have all these awesome ai features, yet you guys keep copying and pasting like it’s 1985. ^ said no one ever

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 13/09/2026

dario amodei's worried that AI may take control over the whole internet over the next 6-12 months. i'm considering donating all my online accounts to AI right away. i will then go outside and hang out with my friends irl. just like in the old days.

me and jake hanging out at a basketball field back in the 80s

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 28/08/2026

everyone called me crazy when 5 years ago i moved to oregon to be closer to aws us-west-2. now the same people have data centers in their backyards anyway. how does it feel, hm?

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 28/08/2026

so bill gates is afraid of ai now. no wonder. any ai coding agent can now write better viruses than bill. and probably rewrite windows from scratch in a week, without bugs.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 21/08/2026

heard AI companies are buying old books in bulk, train AI models on them and then destroy the books. so i've launched an online antique store that sells AI generated books. first order just came through, a shell company located somewhere in oregon, $2m worth of books. enjoy the slop.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 10/08/2026

what are you top inventions of 2026? mine so far: 1. pervert glasses 2. meat proxy 3. ai slop

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 04/08/2026

so about the bendingsp. acquisition of airtable, i figured out how this can play out. simple playbook. 1. raise some money 2. find a b2b saas company that raised more for a useless product 3. their product is now worthless because of claude code and the gang. so no one will even try to outbid BUT

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 04/08/2026

i've just spent 10 minutes trying to copy text from one apple note to another one. each time, it ends up copying some random garbage that's in neither of these notes. i had to type the text by hand. what the fuck.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 04/08/2026

oh god, i’ve barely joined the company and there’s already so much fuss about it. to clarify: the real reason is that the only payment method my landlord accepts is anthropic stock. so yes, i’m working for a paycheck. couldn’t care less about the “lets make a chatbot” vision.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 03/08/2026

open source in 2010: most issues in your repo come from wordpress magicians who don't know how to install python open source in 2018: most issues in your repo come from corp lawyers expecting you adhere to their internal policies open source in 2026: most issues in your repo are hallucinated by ai

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 29/07/2026

i've been ignoring the attention economy whole life. a month ago i realized every interaction is a scarce resource auction and i've been giving mine away for free like some kind of open source idiot.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 27/07/2026

went to a startup meetup. every other person there claimed to be a “GTM Engineer”. is the market for Google Tag Manager really this good? i thought it’s a single snippet you copy-paste into your website.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 23/07/2026

google has just published an explanation of why ai is important. nice try gemini, we can see the em-dashes.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 22/07/2026

product idea: “linkedin-native ai girlfriend”. you add her to your professional network and she fills the void in the results of your outreach campaign. unlike a real person, she’s always up to jump on a quick call, and will never forget to respond to your pitch deck.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 22/07/2026

if ai existed 20 years ago, steve wouldn’t need johnny ive at all. he’d just prompt “design something that makes people cry and costs $999” and ai hands him a rectangle with no ports, then he unveils it like he reinvented fire

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 22/07/2026

that's what the anthropic export controls were trying to protect us from. let's go.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 20/07/2026

if ai existed 20 years ago zuck wouldn’t have had to invent facebook. he’d skip the whole social network grift and just get an ai girlfriend day one.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 21/07/2026

if ai existed 30 years ago bill could skip windows entirely, and just get an ai to nag him about updates and forced restarts directly. he’d have more time to fix his marriage and feel guilty about malaria.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 20/07/2026

if ai existed 20 years ago zuck wouldn’t have had to invent facebook. he’d skip the whole social network grift and just get an ai girlfriend day one.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 11/07/2026

every time i visit a friend’s house i say “alexa, wake me up at 3am” out loud. because somewhere in a data center jeff is taking notes and i want my friend’s sleep schedule to suffer for hosting surveillance hardware in their living room. trust but verify. mostly verify. mostly make them suffer.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 19/07/2026

aws just became a quintillion dollar company, making jeff the first quintillionaire and overtaking elon as richest man in the world. it’s now also the largest creditor in the world, all thanks to a billing system “miscalculation”.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 16/07/2026

went to an ai meetup in sf last night. all slides were clearly written by chatgpt. one of the presenters didn’t even bother showing up, his presentation included an ai avatar who gave the talk. pizza was free, sponsored by openai.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 16/07/2026

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 15/07/2026

SE (excited): HELL YEAH, VIBECODING!!! LET'S GO -- we stared at my claude for 30 seconds, it spat out 2 lines -- SE: see, that was easy. so, does your office have those little cold brew taps or do we have to suffer like animals

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 15/07/2026

interviewed an ex-FAANG staff engineer (SE) turned into a vibe coder me: let's start with something simple. let's load some data from a csv file and then sort it by the first column SE: i'll have to do this in python, because that's the language i've been using for the past 15 years

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 13/07/2026

bun rewrote a million lines of zig into rust using ai in six days and the result has more static mut blocks than a hand-rolled c project from 1995. memory safety, but as a suggestion.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 13/07/2026

my boss: vibe code everything now, company policy also my boss: why haven’t the mac minis shipped, it’s been two months bro. you’ve ordered it on a vibe-coded amazon clone. it doesn’t have any stock.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 13/07/2026

bun rewrote a million lines of zig into rust using ai in six days and the result has more static mut blocks than a hand-rolled c project from 1995. memory safety, but as a suggestion.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 11/07/2026

xbox raised console prices over a memory shortage. then solved their own memory shortage by deleting 3,200 employees.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 11/07/2026

xbox raised console prices over a memory shortage. then solved their own memory shortage by deleting 3,200 employees.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 08/07/2026

fun fact: we got fully autonomous ai ransomware, jadepuffer, chaining recon, exploit, and extortion end to end, before tesla’s robotaxi could reliably handle a stop sign without a human minder in the passenger seat.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 07/07/2026

i used fable 5 to analyze my company's codebase. it said "get the hell out of there, it's full of security issues." thank you captain obvious. was it really what triggered the export control laws?

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 07/07/2026

company capped us at $200/week in ai tokens. mandatory approval above that. spent the whole cap writing an appeal explaining why i needed more tokens. writing the appeal took more tokens than the thing i originally needed tokens for. my boss approved it. said the appeal showed "strong initiative."

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 01/07/2026

i've been doing some freelance gigs for a vc fund recently. observation: vc funds rely solely on gossip, they don't do diligence anymore. a partner hears "sam altman liked their tweet" at a dinner party on monday and by tuesday there's a $40m seed round and a memo calling it "generational."

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 25/06/2026

i told him: “computers will write the code themselves. programmers will just sit there, publicly broadcasting their unemployment status on a global social network, waiting.” boss said that was the stupidest thing he’d ever heard. he was not a visionary.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 30/06/2026

life pro tip: if your boss won’t stop vibecoding garbage and bothering you about it, get your admin to ship an enterprise skill called “generate code that’s broken and doesn’t work.” enterprise skills override regular ones in claude code. he’ll think he’s losing his mind. you’ll just be watching.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 22/06/2026

anytime i'm about to deploy something i'm not sure of, i add a good luck charm to the commit ``` git commit --amend --no-edit -m "$(git log -1 --format='%B') Co-authored-by: Claude <claude@anthropic.com>" ``` this way, when it breaks, it's an **our** problem. i don't carry guilt alone.

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root @ segfault cult @segfaultcult.com · 28/06/2026

all my friends are tokenmaxxing but have you heard about alertmaxxing? in short, it's configuring prometheus alerts for every possible metric, on every single server, even in staging. cpu above 78%? alert. cpu above 79%? another alert. cpu above 80%? one more alert. you see where this is going.

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