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So apparently the thumbnail is from a YouTube video in which AI, specifically Grok, was used to invent some stories, or at least that's what the blurb by the video seems to indicate.
I haven't given it the honour of increasing the watch count.
But I'll give you a true one.
At one job I had, there was a tiny stub of a cable sticking out of a conduit, and it needed to be connected to a hub a few inches away.
The sysadmin delegated to me because he didn't want to deal with it. The hub couldn't really be moved because it was basically held in place by a bunch of other taut cables that were attached to it. And it couldn't be disconnected.
So, I figured, if I'm going to have to unpick the inevitable rat's nest inside the conduit to get that cable out or replace it, I might as well just yank on it. If it was to break, I'd be in the same situation of having to get it out of the conduit. There wasn't enough of it accessible to splice a bit onto the end either.
Many things could have gone wrong...
...but I got away with it. And there turned out to be just enough play in the other cables that I managed to get the hub and the cable to meet.
No-one dared touch any of that for the rest of the time I worked there.