The week in stupidity — 2026-08-03 to 2026-08-09
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stupidity index · stu cringing at the slop
40 / 100
40% of the 5 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 36%). The model is 95% sure. The remaining 5% is the answer.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Fails & Slop | 1 |
| AI Incidents & Outages | 1 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 1 |
| AI News | 2 |
Outage notices: 1 (Perplexity 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
NVDA stock rises 3% as AI infrastructure demand lifts sentiment
NVDA stock rises 3% as AI infrastructure demand lifts sentiment eciks.org
Humans in the loop miss a third of dangerous AI coding agent requests
You wouldn't let Claude Code cat your AWS credentials or Kubernetes config on request, would you?
UK mulls making employers ask before installing bossware
Proposals span AI productivity scores, keystroke logging, biometrics, and other ways to watch workers
get this on mondays
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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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908 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.