Koen Hufkens, PhD<p>Combining two ideas from my feed.</p><p>First, there is the account of <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> on how AI are the perfect bullshit machines and spit out hard code bugs. This is especially true when forced upon people (the reverse-centaurs).</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad</span><span class="invisible">-vibe-coding/#maximally-codelike-bugs</span></a></p><p>Second, an old account on how improper use of image compression algorithms in Xerox scans lied about numbers, at scale.</p><p><a href="https://www.dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">dkriesel.com/en/blog/2013/0802</span><span class="invisible">_xerox-workcentres_are_switching_written_numbers_when_scanning</span></a></p><p>These two things are related, and someone will take the fall for failure.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DevOps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevOps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/code" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>code</span></a></p>