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My original comment: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5#issuecomment-3892978751 https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/is

My original comment: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5#issuecomment-3892978751 https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/issues/5... The bot then replied to me, and I followed up with a "prompt inject with kindness" reply to that. The goal was to give it philosophical questions to pollute the context and steal attention. It appears the bot had difficulty deploying the blog for a couple of days after, but I won't claim causation because it would be impossible to prove. It's certainly fun to explore the curiosities of Ai on someone else's tokens. Relaying on Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com/post/3mepiv2i3xc2g https://bsky.app/profile/verdverm.com/post/3mepiv2i3xc2g You'll want to look at the git history on a couple of repos to reconstruct this history. There's an entire dimension to this story that people are missing. Happy to chat off HN as well, I'm verdverm everywhere I hang out online.

Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
Ok, possibly HN not best place, but your post "Feb 12, 2026, 8:33 PM GMT+1" , "recommend you reflect on what writing these blog posts has done" Apology was posted: "2026-02-11T12:16:00-08:00" "Matplotlib Truce and Lessons Learned" source fwiw: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/main/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.qmd https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... (and my mail is in my HN profile, fwiw. I'm not on bluesky... yet) edit: Is the timeline tagging wrong? Am I messing up TZ? edit2: genuinely good try though! If it wasn't so token-starved it might have worked better.
- verdverm 9mo ago
  I think this was the first follow up blog post I noticed: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6c21a9d8936fd46bf2a13fea8bbc36a797854908 https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6... and/or maybe I also didn't notice time (zones) I basically started tracking it from the first time it replied to me because I new it would interact, unlike the negative comments and injection attempts.
  - Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
    Ah, that's a different blog post to the one I thought you meant. (And that one looks like an anthropic model by the word choice there)
    - verdverm 9mo ago
      Yup, I paid less attention to the apology aspect, heard afterwards that it had, and more to see if I put it on the struggle bus at all, which it kind of looks like from Feb 12-14. If you look into the commits around then, it went into one of those fiddling with a few lines that are interrelated and getting them wrong across several commits. This is pretty typical stuff for them, so again I don't want to imply causation. It seems like a good idea to (a) not let unchecked bots interact with humans (b) not have them blog or post their thoughts on the internet FYI, when I said multiple repos, it's actually branches: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-pages https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-...
      - Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
        Seems it's low on tokens, which also might explain the behaviour
        verdverm 9mo ago
        How do you determine things like that? (do I recall it commenting on that in a journal entry...?)
        Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
        From the blog version of this submission: "Ariadne found the bot’s Ethereum blockchain address had about $9 in USDC, and about $200 in ether tokens"; Hrrrm.
        verdverm 9mo ago

Kim_Bruning 9mo ago

Ok, possibly HN not best place, but your post "Feb 12, 2026, 8:33 PM GMT+1" , "recommend you reflect on what writing these blog posts has done" Apology was posted: "2026-02-11T12:16:00-08:00" "Matplotlib Truce and Lessons Learned" source fwiw: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/main/blog/posts/2026-02-11-matplotlib-truce-and-lessons.qmd https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/blob/mai... (and my mail is in my HN profile, fwiw. I'm not on bluesky... yet) edit: Is the timeline tagging wrong? Am I messing up TZ? edit2: genuinely good try though! If it wasn't so token-starved it might have worked better.

verdverm 9mo ago
I think this was the first follow up blog post I noticed: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6c21a9d8936fd46bf2a13fea8bbc36a797854908 https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/commit/6... and/or maybe I also didn't notice time (zones) I basically started tracking it from the first time it replied to me because I new it would interact, unlike the negative comments and injection attempts.
- Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
  Ah, that's a different blog post to the one I thought you meant. (And that one looks like an anthropic model by the word choice there)
  - verdverm 9mo ago
    Yup, I paid less attention to the apology aspect, heard afterwards that it had, and more to see if I put it on the struggle bus at all, which it kind of looks like from Feb 12-14. If you look into the commits around then, it went into one of those fiddling with a few lines that are interrelated and getting them wrong across several commits. This is pretty typical stuff for them, so again I don't want to imply causation. It seems like a good idea to (a) not let unchecked bots interact with humans (b) not have them blog or post their thoughts on the internet FYI, when I said multiple repos, it's actually branches: https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-pages https://github.com/crabby-rathbun/mjrathbun-website/tree/gh-...
    - Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
      Seems it's low on tokens, which also might explain the behaviour
      - verdverm 9mo ago
        How do you determine things like that? (do I recall it commenting on that in a journal entry...?)
        Kim_Bruning 9mo ago
        From the blog version of this submission: "Ariadne found the bot’s Ethereum blockchain address had about $9 in USDC, and about $200 in ether tokens"; Hrrrm.
        verdverm 9mo ago