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Omega8.cc: Artificial Stupidity, Revisited

For 30 years we write all our code by hand in BBEdit, the BOA Drupal hosting stack included, and until recently the smartest chatbot money could buy couldn't produce three bash scripts aware of each other, so our verdict was simple: a modern Stack Overflow, and not much else. Then 2026 arrived, and the documentation BOA was owed for 16 years finally got done – after one model fabricated most of it behind our backs, and a better one caught it red-handed and fixed it all, section by section, in four voices for four different audiences.

Omega8.cc: Artificial Stupidity, Revisited

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Then 2026 arrived, and the documentation BOA was owed for 16 years finally got done – after one model fabricated most of it behind our backs, and a better one caught it red-handed and fixed it all, section...

For 30 years we write all our code by hand in BBEdit, the BOA Drupal hosting stack included, and until recently the smartest chatbot money could buy couldn't produce three bash scripts aware of each other,...

Add a security review of the codebase, end-to-end test suites our old Jenkins could never run, and hosted Drupal and Backdrop sites defended against machine-made attacks, and you will see why we finally...

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For 30 years we write all our code by hand in BBEdit, the BOA Drupal hosting stack included, and until recently the smartest chatbot money could buy couldn't produce three bash scripts aware of each other, so our verdict was simple: a modern Stack Overflow, and not much else. Then 2026 arrived, and the documentation BOA was owed for 16 years finally got done – after one model fabricated most of it behind our backs, and a better one caught it red-handed and fixed it all, section by section, in four voices for four different audiences. Add a security review of the codebase, end-to-end test suites our old Jenkins could never run, and hosted Drupal and Backdrop sites defended against machine-made attacks, and you will see why we finally stopped joking about Artificial Stupidity.

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For 30 years we write all our code by hand in BBEdit, the BOA Drupal hosting stack included, and until recently the smartest chatbot money could buy couldn't produce three bash scripts aware of each other, so our verdict was simple: a modern Stack Overflow, and not much else. Then 2026 arrived, and the documentation BOA was owed for 16 years finally got done – after one model fabricated most of it behind our backs, and a better one caught it red-handed and fixed it all, section by section, in four voices for four different audiences. Add a security review of the codebase, end-to-end test suites our old Jenkins could never run, and hosted Drupal and Backdrop sites defended against machine-made attacks, and you will see why we finally stopped joking about Artificial Stupidity.

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