Hall of Fails — October 2025
9 items this month across all lanes. Ranked by lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus; ties by id. All months.
AI Fails & Slop
Halloween costumes by tiny neural net
I've recently been experimenting with one of my favorite old-school neural networks, a tiny program that runs on my laptop and knows only about the data I give it. Without internet training, char-rnn doesn't have outside…
Tiny neural net Halloween costumes are the best
I've been experimenting with getting a tiny circa-2015 recurrent neural network to generate Halloween costumes. Running on a single cat hair-covered laptop, char-rnn has no internet training, but learns from scratch to i…
AI Incidents & Outages
AI Code Vulnerability Audit: Fix the 45% Security Flaws Fast
AI Code Vulnerability Audit: Fix the 45% Security Flaws Fast Augment Code
Security risks of vibe coding and LLM assistants for developers
Security risks of vibe coding and LLM assistants for developers Kaspersky