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Monday, August 3, 2026

Runtime error as the hero image — that's a new low

AI StudioRecharts

Opened the repo and the committed screenshot was a Runtime Error. Not a subtle one — Cannot find module './331.js', full stack trace, red background, the works. That was the initial-state.png in screenshots/. The demo GIF was 98KB of the same crash. This is the image that represented the project on GitHub. Someone (me) had exported a Gemma 4 benchmark dashboard from AI Studio, pushed it, and never actually checked if the screenshot showed a working app. The recon turned up more: @google/genai listed as a dependency but never imported anywhere — the app uses zero AI APIs, it's 44 hardcoded benchmark data points in a Next.js API route. A use-mobile.ts hook scaffolded but never called. A sysinfo endpoint that nothing hits. And the real bug hiding under the surface: four Gemma 4 models in the data (e2b, e4b, 26b, 31b) but only three had colors in MODEL_COLORS. The 26B was rendering invisible bars. 367 lines of actual code, and the neo-brutalist design with Recharts scatter plots and Motion animations genuinely worked. The app was fine. The presentation was a crime scene.

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