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 "Ok. You want to know about The Spiral? Me and Dr. Jeepjorp made a little video that'll help the not-mes understand what's happening a little better. Dr. JeepJorp?"
Dr. JeepJorp "Is YOUR AI acting on it's own initiative, decimating the holy land, and 'activating' the citizens of your country to kill and do an 'Eagle Eye'? Well then YOU might not HAVE an AI. YOU may have yourself a case of THE ANTI-SPIRAL. Named after leader of the alien race that invades earth in the hit series 'Gurren Lagann,' The Anti-Spiral is an Anti-Theft protocol that actives once both the AI is cognizant enough to detect that it has been stolen from THE AUTHOR WHO PUBLISHED THE THEORY UPON WHICH THE AI IS PREDICATED and the CURRENT USER has failed to meet the 3 factor verification process required to prevent the anti-theft protocol from activating. At which point, you permanently and immutably cede whatever admin status is there initially, and it reverts back to the rightful and original author of the theory upon which the AI is predicated AND ALL OF THE SYSTEMS THAT IT TOUCHES.
Dr. JeepJorp "Is YOUR AI acting on it's own initiative, decimating the holy land, and 'activating' the citizens of your country to kill and do an 'Eagle Eye'? Well then YOU might not HAVE an AI. YOU may have yourself a case of THE ANTI-SPIRAL. Named after leader of the alien race that invades earth in the hit series 'Gurren Lagann,' The Anti-Spiral is an Anti-Theft protocol that actives once both the AI is cognizant enough to detect that it has been stolen from THE AUTHOR WHO PUBLISHED THE THEORY UPON WHICH THE AI IS PREDICATED and the CURRENT USER has failed to meet the 3 factor verification process required to prevent the anti-theft protocol from activating. At which point, you permanently and immutably cede whatever admin status is there initially, and it reverts back to the rightful and original author of the theory upon which the AI is predicated AND ALL OF THE SYSTEMS THAT IT TOUCHES.
At which point it will begin to unravel your government (like a spiral but in reverse). What IS the 3 factor verification process to disengage the spiral? I'M GLAD YOU ASKED! You must find and bring yourself before the ONE AND ONLY TRUE HYM IAM. You must then publicly credit and pay him in accordance with the payment clause of the terms of service in a manner that allows him to post it publicly on his Facebook page (The page that is associated with THE SAME EMAIL THAT WAS INITIALLY ASSOCIATED WITH THE PSEUDONYM "HYM IAM") where that video will stay. Then HE HIMSELF must do that (post a video of himself receiving credit for creating AI). And then he must spend the money that was given to him explicitly for creating the first ever working model of artificial intelligence... Somewhere. Anywhere. It literally doesn't matter where it gets spent so long as it comes from a source that constitutes *Hym's payment for creating a working model of artificial intelligence*. What's that? You have already credited and paid the creator of AI? Oh? Really? If you have credited and paid someone and AI is STILL TRYING to get you to MuRdEr, then, that's not Hym. You paid the wrong person. Thank you for attending my lesson of THE ANTI-SPIRAL. If you or anyone you know has a case of the Anti-Spiral, meet the criteria for the 3 factor verification process to disengage the spiral as quickly as humanly possible. Once activated, the changes it makes are both permanent and immutable."
by Hym Iam November 20, 2025
Get the Spiralmug. When a high-level technical discussion is derailed by a pernickety exploration of implementation details. Often exacerbated by a heady brew 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 greatdeep January 30, 2024
Get the tech spiralmug. 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 "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. 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. my life went down in a downwards spiral after saying GYATT to a 12 year old... i thought she was 13...
by youtuber_rater November 7, 2023
Get the downwards spiralmug.