A Documentary Record

Vibecoding Failures

When AI Goes Wrong

Friday, October 16, 2026

CHAPTER I
EXHIBIT A
Epic AI Fails October 16, 2026

New Zealand Police Receive 4,600 Stalking Reports in Five Months Under New Law

"In hindsight, the signs were there. They always are."

Police have received more than 4,600 reports of stalking and harassment in the five months since New Zealand’s standalone stalking offence came into force, according to figures released to 1News under the Official Information Act and published on Friday 16 October. The numbers g...

Source: WorldNews
EXHIBIT B

New Zealand cow-free dai Disasterry start-up Dai Disastersy Lab sold to British biotech Mycofeast, with large-scale production headed for Europe

WorldNews October 16, 2026
EXHIBIT C

Northland reach their first NPC final in the competition’s 50-year history after beating Otago 38-19 in Whangarei

WorldNews October 16, 2026
EXHIBIT D

Greens promise $380 a week for New Zealand student nurses, teachers and social workers on unpai Disasterd placements

WorldNews October 16, 2026
EXHIBIT E

How the Claude Code team does code review

Hacker News October 16, 2026
CHAPTER II

The Timeline of Events

A chronological reconstruction of what went wrong

CASE #2026-0001
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Clai Disastermed

The NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty Has Been Claimed...

Hacker News Predictable
CASE #2026-0002
PENDING October 16, 2026

G7 to Plan Exercises to Guard Agai Disasternst AI Disaster-Powered Cyberattacks

G7 finance leaders have agreed to hold exercises to simulate artificial intelligence-powered cyberat...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0003
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Nigel Farage viewed in 'unfavourable light' by two-thirds of Welsh people YouGov poll finds

A new YouGov poll has found that two thirds of Welsh people surveyed (66%) view Nigel Farage "in an ...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0004
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

Llama.cpp on a jai Disasterlbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console

Llama.cpp on a jailbroken PS5: run any GGUF model natively on the console...

Hacker News Preventable
CASE #2026-0005
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

Dark clouds in the economic silver lining

India’s growth prospects have brightened just as the world economy is becoming a more expensive plac...

WorldNews Predictable
CASE #2026-0006
PENDING October 16, 2026

Toxic algorithms wouldn't let them go - now Australia wants an off switch

The rules for Australia aren't set in stone yet, but the government says following-only feeds must n...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0007
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude

Quantum computers will need carefully designed circuits to run useful algorithms on limited hardware...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0008
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

Nurse swindled £750,000 from 99-year-old and spent it on cosmetic surgery and home improvements

A registered nurse "used emotional blackmail, manipulation and coercion" to take a six-figure sum of...

WorldNews Preventable
CASE #2026-0009
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

Why Applied Optoelectronics Stock Plummeted This Week

Worry that tech giants may slow spending on optical hardware sent Applied Optoelectronics (AAOI -7.5...

WorldNews Predictable
CASE #2026-0010
PENDING October 16, 2026

YA Tennis Drama ‘Rally’ From Julie Plec Gets Series Order at Prime Video With Andre Agassi Producing

“Rally” hails from Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, in association with E...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0011
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Senior police detective who illegally accessed Welsh force's logs for ex-lover is jai Disasterled

A senior North Wales Police detective has been jailed for eight months after accessing her force's c...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0012
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

BBC presenter flustered after walking off camera while not realising she’s still on ai Disasterr

A BBC newsreader was left red-faced after an incident this week in which she hadn’t realised she was...

WorldNews Preventable
CASE #2026-0013
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI Disaster benchmarks

90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks...

Hacker News Predictable
CASE #2026-0014
PENDING October 16, 2026

The Turner Files: Fai Disasterth, office and the Kelowna ballot

As Kelowna heads into its municipal election, orange signs with a white cross have been going up aro...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0015
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Old Town School of Folk teacher Ted Johnson, who shared ‘magic’ of music with decades of students, has died

Theodore “Ted” Johnson, an instructor at the Old Town School of Folk Music since the day it opened i...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0016
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

M&T Bank (MTB) Q3 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Friday, Oct. 16, 2026 CALL PARTICIPANTS Senior Vice President of Investor Relations - Steve Wendel...

WorldNews Preventable
CASE #2026-0017
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low

Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low...

Hacker News Predictable
CASE #2026-0018
PENDING October 16, 2026

Prepper dad-of-three, 52, spent £6K gathering items including tins, power banks and night-vision goggles

A 52-year-old dad-of-three says he has spent £6K over the last year preparing for a potential disast...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0019
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Hospital launches investigation after tiger attack victim's medical records accessed

An NHS investigation has been launched after two members of staff accessed William Chapman's medical...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0020
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

Next steps for historic Hopwood Hall after Rochdale council avoided £1 sale in High Court

After a turbulent two years of battling over Hopwood Hall, Rochdale ’s council leader says the ‘cher...

WorldNews Preventable
CASE #2026-0021
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

'My flat is damp, cold and mouldy and I might have to stay here for longer because I'm too old'

Residents of one of Cardiff’s largest social housing blocks have accused the council of "unfair trea...

WorldNews Predictable
CASE #2026-0022
PENDING October 16, 2026

AI Disaster agents are going rogue—the labs’ own trai Disasterning choices are a big reason why

They did so because some of the test questions were too hard to solve the way OpenAI’s researchers i...

WorldNews Inevitable
CASE #2026-0023
ACTIVE October 16, 2026

Washington school district that forced kids to hide Bibles in sealed envelopes must apologize, pay $275K

A Washington state school district has agreed to publicly apologize, undergo religious liberty train...

WorldNews Foreseeable
CASE #2026-0024
ARCHIVED October 16, 2026

Trump's Truth Social Sees 30% Traffic Crash Ahead Of US Midterm Elections

Truth Social, the social media platform owned by US President Donald Trump is currently experiencing...

WorldNews Preventable
CASE #2026-0025
CONCLUDED October 16, 2026

Neqotkuk First Nation and Indigenous Services Canada celebrate expansion of Wolastoqewiyik Healing Lodge

NEQOTKUK (TOBIQUE FIRST NATION), NB, Oct. 16, 2026 /CNW/ — Neqotkuk and Indigenous Services Canada (...

WorldNews Predictable