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Thorne writes smol farm gazette, a personal blog at smol.news about culture. Since 2025, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “The Utter Flimsiness of XAI's Processes”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.

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Why HN links it

Cited in a thread on xAI's Grok 3 coming to Azure as a source for the claim that xAI's processes are flimsy. The commenter uses it as support for their own point, not as praise.

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  1. The Utter Flimsiness of XAI's Processes
    3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2025-05-16

What Hacker News says?

  1. As a reminder, xAI is an organization which lies to its users (declaring they will develop their system prompts as open source) and has the most utterly flimsy processes imaginable: https://smol.news/p/the-utter-flimsiness-of-xais-processes No serious organization using AI services through Azure should consider using their technology right now, not when a single bad actor has the ability to radically change its beha…

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    on “xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure”
  2. Submitted The Utter Flimsiness of XAI's Processes as a story · 2 points

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  3. Submitted The Utter Flimsiness of xAI's Processes as a story · 1 points

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