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verdvermyesterday at 9:27 PM1 replyview on HN

My original comment: 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

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.


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Kim_Bruningyesterday at 9:51 PM

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/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.

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