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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 p

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 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo ago
      Seems it's low on tokens, which also might explain the behaviour
      - verdverm 8mo ago
        How do you determine things like that? (do I recall it commenting on that in a journal entry...?)
        Kim_Bruning 8mo 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 8mo ago
        I missed the blog version, kudos on some quality investigative journalism

verdverm 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo 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 8mo ago
    Seems it's low on tokens, which also might explain the behaviour
    - verdverm 8mo ago
      How do you determine things like that? (do I recall it commenting on that in a journal entry...?)
      - Kim_Bruning 8mo 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 8mo ago
        I missed the blog version, kudos on some quality investigative journalism