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asfjhqon The 29th International Obfuscated C Code Contest (IOCCC) 2025 Winners

Rule 7 would be self-contradictory if "tools" include AI.

https://www.ioccc.org/2025/rules.html

It seems to refer to custom code generators. Why would they mean AI if they explicitly talk about a "rich history" (when AI wasn't available)?

asfjhqon I design with Claude more than Figma now

They apparently pressure their new hires to blog and talk their book. It happens a lot in U.S. corporations.

asfjhqon I design with Claude more than Figma now

Janestreet is now known for shady trading in India and its aggressive AI trading strategies:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-04/jane-stre...

In other words, it is an AI booster. Abusing the goodwill of programmers for their OCaml involvement even though most of it was convoluted bloat and inferior to INRIA code is devious.

It happens all the time now and people need to inoculate themselves against it:

A single famous open source person or an open source involved company invested in AI suddenly posts "organic" testimonies in favor of AI. It means nothing. The person is not the same person, the company is not the same company (or is now overtly evil).

asfjhqon Programmers Aren't People

If you were a real programmer, you'd know that it is all hype.

asfjhqon Programmers Aren't People

https://elliotbonneville.com/about/

"I work at NVIDIA during the day as a software engineer, and fiddle with AI for fun on the side"

Every single time. This article is concern trolling or advertisement trolling. I hope Nvidia's stock goes up due to the AI assisted existential crisis thoughts of this programmer.