The week in stupidity — 2026-06-22 to 2026-06-28
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stupidity index · stu cringing at the slop
83 / 100
83% of the 6 items the feed collected this week were a fail, an outage or a confidently wrong human (last week: 50%). It apologised, then did it again. Growth.
by the numbers
| lane | items |
|---|---|
| AI Fails & Slop | 2 |
| AI Incidents & Outages | 3 |
| AI Bubble & Money | 1 |
Outage notices: 1 (Replit 1) · Bubble Thermometer: no reading this week
top five, by formula
It's 11:00 pm. Do you know where your AI agent is?
AI agents that email people and post on other people's websites are cursed and we shouldn't make them.
Pharmacists warned to use extreme caution when ‘vibe coding’ in wake of privacy breach
Pharmacists warned to use extreme caution when ‘vibe coding’ in wake of privacy breach PharmacyToday.co.nz
Wall Street Thinks AI Capex Is Unsustainable -- Here's Why Big Tech Keeps Spending Anyway
Wall Street Thinks AI Capex Is Unsustainable -- Here's Why Big Tech Keeps Spending Anyway Yahoo Finance
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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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872 items over the last four weeks, by weekday and UTC hour; darker is busier (. : - = + * # % @ from quiet to loud). Counts, not judgement.