Seems to be the trendy thing to do these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943 It's cool I guess.

Seems to be the trendy thing to do these days: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943 It's cool I guess. I'd be a hypocrite I guess, to suggest otherwise given that I also did a "pgbot" thing[1] a long time ago. But somehow these newer things feel different. I think what I did was very obviously a joke, especially since it only had like 7 responses it could generate. But even then I felt a little iffy about publishing the code, and I always figured if pg contacted me and said "take this shit down" I'd do so immediately. And I never instantiated it as a running service, so anybody who wanted to play with it had to deal with setting it up to run somewhere (something I doubt anyone has ever done). Something like this though, that's based on his entire corpus of essays and can make a semi-plausible attempt to replicate him as a publicly available service? I dunno. I guess I wonder if it's not in bad taste to do this with a living person without asking for permission? Or maybe you did and this is all a moot point. [1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot