The week in stupidity — 2026-07-13 to 2026-07-19
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stupidity index · stu cringing at the slop
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56% of the 9 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 33%). A hallucination is confidence without a source.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Incidents & Outages | 5 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 2 |
| AI News | 1 |
| Fact-checks | 1 |
Outage notices: 3 (Replit 3) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
When Did You Catch the Vibe Coding Bug? A Guide to Embracing Flow-Driven Development
When Did You Catch the Vibe Coding Bug? A Guide to Embracing Flow-Driven Development 36Kr
Jensen Huang's $4 Trillion Artificial Intelligence (AI) Projection Could Propel Nvidia's Market Cap to $20 Trillion
Jensen Huang's $4 Trillion Artificial Intelligence (AI) Projection Could Propel Nvidia's Market Cap to $20 Trillion Yahoo Finance
Apple Avoided the AI CapEx Spending Trap — Now the Bill May Be Coming Due
Apple Avoided the AI CapEx Spending Trap — Now the Bill May Be Coming Due 24/7 Wall St.
Microsoft Surface Laptop 8 review: a quality PC whose trackpad taps you back
Snappy performance, long battery life, great keyboard and excellent new haptic touchpad make the best of Windows 11 Microsoft’s Surface laptop for consumers is back, faster and with longer battery life and a hefty price …
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The Stupidity Index is the share of the week's items in the fails, incidents and confidently-wrong lanes; the top five use the Hall of Fails formula: lane weight × log(engagement + 5 × 🔥) × thumbnail bonus. Other weeks · how this site works.
promises due in the next two weeks
- 2026-09-30 OpenAI: An intern-level automated AI researcher exists by September 2026; a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028. — Sam Altman, CEO, and Jakub Pachocki, chief scientist, 2025-10-28 · source ↗
The ledger keeps the date; the date arrives either way. all promises · calendar
when the internet is most stupid
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1039 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.