Kipling Would Have Written a Poem About the AI QA Disaster and It Would Have Been Terrible

Jack
Handey
on
East
London,
imperial
literature,
and
the
machine
that
never
said
no

From

Bohiney
Magazine
and

The
London
Prat.

Wednesday,
15
April
2026

I
live
in
East
London,
which
means
I
have
excellent
opinions
and
no
parking.
I
spent
this
morning
reading
Kipling,
which
I
do
occasionally
as
a
form
of
intellectual
self-flagellation,
and
then
reading
about
the

AI
that
replaced
an
entire
QA
team,
and
I
want
to
tell
you
that
the
two
experiences
are
thematically
similar.
Kipling
believed
the
machine
of
Empire
was
naturally
self-correcting.
It
was
not.
The
AI
believes
it
is
naturally
self-correcting.
It
is
also
not.
Both
passed
every
test
except
the
obvious
one.

On
Russian
Politics

I
have
also
been
following
Russian
political
developments,
which
in
2026
remains
an
activity
best
undertaken
with
a
very
large
drink.
The
geopolitical
situation
there
continues
to
resemble
a
novel
by
Dostoevsky
if
Dostoevsky
had
been
writing
for
an
audience
that
didn’t
read
to
the
end.

Bohiney’s
current
coverage
approaches
it
with
the
correct
mixture
of
satire
and
despair.

The
East
London
Perspective

From
Bethnal
Green,
which
is
where
I
am
currently
drinking
tea
and
watching
pigeons
conduct
their
own
version
of
global
diplomacy
on
my
windowsill,
the
world
looks
manageable.

The
Prat’s
piece
on
diplomacy
aging
like
warm
milk
is
accurate.

The
BBC
covers
it
earnestly.
The
pigeons
don’t.
The
pigeons
are
winning.

SOURCE:

https://bohiney.com/tuesday-is-bridge-day/

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