hex4

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hex4.xyz <::> middle schooler, dreamer, coder, and maker for a funner web & world 🇨🇦 // hack clubber // design & development // no politics plz :3 // he/him

today i learned: g then ? in vim lets you ROT13 text. why? turns out this was a common method to hide spoilers on usenet in the 90s! instead of ||hi|| you just rot13 your text. anyone who wants to read it rot13s again. wowzers! and this is still in vim, and vim mode in zed kept it for some reason

can someone explain to me what the Knicks are??? is this related to the world cup?? why are they in five

guys can anyone donate an anthropic API key I want to ask fable to help me conduct authorized security research against the Illuminati

sometimes, the inner voice is encouraging, calling for you to run those final few yards; you're nearly there, keep going, keep going, keep going, keep going, it will all be okay in the end.

also, tentative thoughts on generative AI: using it to slop out creative output - writing, AI art, AI music, etc - is bad. yes, the world would be a better place without it. the world might have been a better place without social media too coding agents are incredibly powerful in the right hands

tried out opus 4.7, it feels a bit smarter than 4.6 but the personality is way more verbose, sycophantic, and gpt-like. plus feels harder for it to "get" what i mean. imo a regression for anything other than like business analysis in the background. def not for conversational use

i realize 3/4 of my last posts have been about AI. apologies! i need project ideas so I stop spiraling and doom-thinking 😭

I don't think the (programming/dev/making) world is going back to the way it was pre-Claude Code/Amp/Opus 4.5/Codex/whatever and i'm really not sure how to feel about that but it's leaning negative :(

why is AI generating code and art and design and music instead of doing my chores or organizing my files

i just watched a next-word-predictor solve today's wordle by making tool calls to a browser crazy times ahead the cat's out of the bag, now we need to make sure the cat won't kill us or burn the earth

much like the internet, social media, & the printing press, i see AI as a “pandora’s box” technology — there is no going back now that is has been released, so it is our responsibility and job now to figure out how to make this work for humanity’s good, and to fight against negative outcomes

After analysing the needs and desires of our ever-expanding userbase, we have decided to implement our first ever AI Chatbot on the Minecraft Wiki. We hope this friendly face can help make up for the immense shortcomings of information caused by our unnecessary human editors.

CLICK THIS BUTTON PLEASE