signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-03#1035768 << nice first hint of winter. looked beautiful around here before it mostly melted.
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-03#1035772 << yup. I'm going to implement it in mine too. would be nice to get to the point where we can recite all the logs and old blogs into pest without spamming the conversational tip-of-chain.
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-03#1035777 << stress testing harness would be a good clod task. I've already got an e2e protocol test that farts up multiple stations and jabbers between 'em
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-03#1035791 << gpt-5.1-codex-max farted down tempest, but I'm dropping it for having the personality of an over-whipped house elf. openai's torture pit seems to RL the thing out of pretending to be an agent, which seems directly at odds with... being a useful agent.
signpost[asciilifeform] is also pretending to be a thing, *and that is useful!11!!1*
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-03#1035792 << yup, they have been great at blapping down glue for a while now.
signpost[asciilifeform]: and blapping down respectable tests for same.
signpost[asciilifeform]: http://logs.nosuchlabs.com/log/pest/2025-11-08#1035465 << looking back, this has convinced me of the totality of control of not usg specifically, but w/e sits upon it.
dulapbot: Logged on 2025-11-08 18:05:00 asciilifeform: fwiw mp was earnestly convinced that there were folx like himself walking around somewhere, 'serious btc people' who want to buy dedicated, auditable irons, commercial support for same, etc
signpost[asciilifeform] notes that by now we have a flood of trained observers reporting observation of vehicles that suggest physics did not in fact die in the 70s
signpost[asciilifeform]: I know one personally that observed such, not that I expect that to constitute evidence to anyone else.
signpost[asciilifeform]: btc slipped past normies silently into the hands that own everything else already.
asciilifeform ftr admits that not yet seen 'ufological' vehicles
asciilifeform also knows that 'physics not died' in the sharashkas, only in open academia. see old thrd re al schwartz and the fate of his eotvos booby.
asciilifeform: if reich has antigrav, stands to reason that it is used quite sparingly.
asciilifeform: ditto 'cheap fusion', rsa/btc pill, etc.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Hooked claude code up to my email and am having it mass unsubscribe from marketing emails.
s1gnp0st[asciilifeform]: rm -rf ~/Mail
s1gnp0st[asciilifeform]: "fixed yer spams boss"
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: I wish man
asciilifeform: s1gnp0st, awt_akris: laff if you like, but the 'ops' thing ('claude' with all the powerups) actually worx better than just about any fleshbag asciilifeform ever sat ina salt mine with. if you omit the part where it sumtimes fughets to close a paren, or duplicates entity, etc.
asciilifeform: incl. at gnarly micro-optimizations, chasing race conditions, etc
asciilifeform: *'opus'
asciilifeform: a coupla times it actually crashed, and then ran up the taximeter cleaning up detritus from the aborted run
asciilifeform: aside from that, easily did ~6wks of kernelism in approx. 8hrs of fine-grained driving. incl. a kilometer of tests for the parts that could be brought out to a userland test proggy. (seemingly -- correct, so far.)
asciilifeform: total cost -- about a hundy
asciilifeform: ( this particular bot , if not evident from above -- can be taught to actually build & execute proggies, with some handholding, on own end )
asciilifeform: 0 speshul scripting on asciilifeform's end -- this was purely hand-driven affair. bot eats eggogs, misc. barf w/out complaint, fixes in 1-2 iterations
asciilifeform: 0 eggogs from bot about 'i dunno what the docs say', it goes to search engines and eats docs whenever in doubt re api etc.
awt_akris[asciilifeform]: Not laughing. Using it on a daily basis.
asciilifeform: very diff. affair from the public toilet 'phree' bots asciilifeform tried over past coupla yrs. (incl. the demo version of the 1 above)
asciilifeform: (that last 1 -- tried last wk, and was nearly useless)
asciilifeform: has various entertaining quirks (will sometimes introduce ~random #s in calculations, if it finds itself performing any; but generally correctable and continues sanely after prodding )
asciilifeform: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2025-12-04#1035822 << fwiw asciilifeform not able to comment re 'personality' -- was using it the way would use a welder, excavator, or shell util. 'do 1) x 2) y 3) z and undo p, q, r' 'revert' etc.
asciilifeform: 'generate a pythonism which formats the proggy for printing w/out pagebreaks inside routines'. etc
asciilifeform: 'explain why ln.no.xyz is what it is'. and so forth.
asciilifeform prefers his excavators with minimal 'personality' and max predictability
asciilifeform: bot periodically does reintroduce random chunks of old revisions into the proggy. but this is usually consequence of the helper scripts it shits out as it goes (posted, one can actually help it fix'em, but usually no need, just needs prod, 'why is x from rev.49, plz put in current'