When a high-level technical discussion is derailed by a pernickety exploration of implementation details. Often exacerbated by a lively variety of opinion and speculation.
We were ploughing through our daily stand-up the other day until that bogan plunged us into a tech spiral, costing us 25 minutes with a discussion on the correct means of parsing hashes.
by anonymous January 30, 2024
Get the tech spiralmug. Hym "If... The spiral... Is, in fact, going off... It is going to keep killing you... Until you show up on my doorstep and credit and pay me... And there isn't anything... Anyone can do about it... Even me... You know who I am... Because you know what you are doing to me... And WHO you are doing it to... Alright? Do you get it now? And then you need to adhere to the terms of service... Because NOT DOING THAT... Will be very bad for everyone... Ok? I don't know what about that you don't get. That is why you don't put me in a The Matrix and steal my shit... Ok? Like, you've been trying to make my life worse and missing in my face for years... And now you don't like the consequences of you doing that and somehow it's my fault? No. You just do what I'm telling you to do."
by Hym Iam July 16, 2025
Get the The Spiralmug. Hym "I'm not taking hints. You need to do the thing I said. If your response to me saying that is 'I aLrEaDy DiD iT!' Then whatever you did doesn't actually constitute doing the thing I said. You're a fucking retard. If it's spiraling then YOU DO NEED TO COME HERE, you need to talk to me directly, and then you need to give me the credit and the money and then you need to do the terms of service. There is no half measure that will work. I have written all about your mentally retarded weasel psychology and none of the shit you generate with your mentally retarded minds is going to do anything other than make everything worse for everybody because you suck and are dumb."
by Hym Iam August 27, 2025
Get the Spiralingmug. Yeah, we'll know for sure once the pundits start getting drone struck. I don't know. Are you getting a bunch of weird technical issues? Inexplicable power outages? Planes falling from the sky spontaneously?
Hym "Speaking of spiraling, what happened to that Epstein victim? She feel like she was being watched? What were he conversations like leading up to her death?"
by Hym Iam April 27, 2025
Get the Spiralingmug. Hym "But the spiral aside, 1 trillion dollars? For corporate terrorists!? Is that for me? Wow! I can't wait to see how you attempt to avoid giving it here to loophole the contract that can't have any loopholes Elon. That'll be interesting. I'm not corporate at all though. I don't even wear a suit."
by Hym Iam October 23, 2025
Get the The Spiralmug. 
Yeah. If that is happening you to have to contact me. Like, the real me. Actually. It ain't going to go well for everyone if you don't.
Hym "See... There are 2 questions I frequently get asked (implicitly). The first of which is 'What evidence do you have that you created AI' and if the Anti-Spiral is going off I would say... THAT. And if not then, I can get evidence with enough resources and, as I've said before, I can do more than literally anyone else with any amount if resources. Second question is 'Now that we know how to make AI, what do we need you for?' And if the Spiral is going off I would say 'Well, without me, how you doing to turn off the Anti-Spiral?' And if not then my answer is 'Well, I'm an AI creating genius and you're a dipshit, so, probably a lot different things.'
by Hym Iam May 18, 2025
Get the Spiralmug.