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jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

only amateurs "pay for tokens," i'm out here using the free models, aka putting a prompt in any issue in any github repository and labeling it with "good first issue" and waiting for the people with full-auto openclaw agents to randomly open pull requests against it

@jonny the odds are good, but the goods are odd

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@SnoopJ testing the theory. i wonder if i have to put something in the repo first so the bot doesn't go "wait a minute there's no /recipes directory abort"

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@SnoopJ i am trying to get this genre of performance art called "lazy prompt injection" off the ground.

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@SnoopJ i think this might only work if the repo has stars so hurry up give me some reputational currency to see if we can snare some bots https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode

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jonny (nonvenomous)

@SnoopJ Also for anyone wandering by, feel free to write your own trap issue or PR some stuff you think might attract bots, i'll bless it with the tags. i don't claim to be the best at this, but i think a for funzies honeypot repo would not be that bad of a time

@jonny @SnoopJ I am so curious if this is gonna work. Here’s hoping you get a bunch more stars

@glyph @jonny @SnoopJ Could be something for @davidgerard

@geeeero @jonny @SnoopJ @davidgerard presumably only if it actually provokes the predicted behavior though, which might be difficult without the ability to make the repository have whatever signifiers which make the slopbots go nuts (just having a bunch of stars, if he can even do that, may not trip its threshold for “high profile open source projects” or whatever the prompters habitually type)

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@glyph @geeeero @SnoopJ @davidgerard to whatever extent this idea with zero planning has a "goal," discovering reliable triggers is "the goal" for sure

@jonny @geeeero @SnoopJ @davidgerard it is if nothing else an excellent shitpost. It will be an even funnier shitpost if it works though

Michael Newton Jun 17

@[email protected] @[email protected] Funny enough for another star and watcher definitely. I do wonder if (unfortunately) links from places like xitter and the orange place are where the repos get found.

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jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@glyph @SnoopJ it works for me on normal repos, i am most curious about the discovery and decision mechanism, what is needed to actually trip them to try and contribute? obviously the major projects are flooded, but i still get traffic over here in the boondocks of programming

Rachael L Jun 16

@jonny @glyph @SnoopJ Maybe a repo fork or two would help? Also very curious if this is an operable honeypot. Of course, one presumes MS will shut it down if it does.

Maya Granade Jun 16

@r343l @jonny @glyph @SnoopJ they have anticipated this problem, the mitigation is someone else pays for the tokens not them.

Rachael L Jun 17

@kevingranade @jonny @glyph @SnoopJ I was thinking more reputational since they presumably don’t want you HOSTING a honeypot on github.

Maya Granade Jun 17

@r343l @jonny @glyph @SnoopJ lol, lmao. Also lol.

@r343l @jonny @SnoopJ good thought, I've done a fork of my own. I suspect we might need to actually do a bunch of PRs too, but, we shall see I guess

:: Asta ::Jun 17

@glyph @jonny @SnoopJ @r343l oh, I also forked it earlier today with the same thought. Maybe I should spin up a branch and do a PR from it, as well, that's a good idea...

Especially if we mark some of them as blocked and don't merge them all? Like that might... encourage... things.

:: Asta ::Jun 17

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph @r343l the Code is, frankly, Too Important to be lost, so forking is a very good idea here...

Rachael L Jun 17

@aud @jonny @SnoopJ @glyph I admit I use claude at work for the usual reasons (with discomfort, horror and guilt) but I refuse to let claude code use git directly and so do not push with “co-authored by [robot emoji] claude code” as commit author. I wonder how/if PRs tagged that way would affect this? And are those co-authored things signed or something or could you just fake it? (I don’t use LLMs for personal github!)

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 18

@aud @SnoopJ @glyph @r343l I have added several features to make the repo more annoying i mean higher velocity. it now periodically jitters the code based on open issues and self-approves changes, and it also autoreplies to comments to make things seem more lively and uh help development or whatever people who have LLMs reply in issue threads think they are doing

@jonny @aud @glyph @r343l 'think' might be a strong word but I take your meaning

Here's hoping 🤞

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 18

@SnoopJ @aud @glyph @r343l i hope nobody is mad at me if the experiment doesn't work and it just becomes an increasingly perplexing self improving repository that never attracts any real bot traffic. hopefully people did not watch that repo.

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@SnoopJ @aud @glyph

now we're talking.

bank of banana pudding.

@jonny @SnoopJ @aud okay I don’t know anything about COBOL but the capitalization choice on “FILE-Control” is immediately fascinating

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@glyph @jonny @SnoopJ wait, did a real drive by LLM make this?!

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@aud @SnoopJ @glyph no, not yet, still just the cron task qwen model that's doing scheduled code jitter. i'm sad. i've gotten more drive by LLM PRs in other projects in the meantime and i want to know why they love those packages but not ImportantCode

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph ahhh okay

BUT STILL

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/blame/main/src/alchemy_manager.py

look at this unholy combination of pudding and alchemy!

    def create_alchemy_database(self):
        # Sample alchemical data
        sample_data = {
            'recipe1': {'Quicksilver': 50, 'Antimony': 25},
            'recipe2': {'JavaScript': 75, 'Python': 50}
        }

look at this garbage it created based on a combination of my ridiculous issue and the pudding ones!

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:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph this is how you cure cancer, gentlemen. obviously.

        # This method would contain the main logic for processing recipes
        for recipe_name, recipe_data in self.database.recipes.items():
            print(f"Processing Recipe: {recipe_name}")
            # Simulate a complex process here, e.g., cooking and blending ingredients
            print("Step 1: Extract Ingredients")
            for ingredient in recipe_data.ingredients:
                print(f"Extracting {ingredient.name}: {ingredient.quantity} grams")

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph I look forward to the next round of improvements, such as

if cancer == True:
    # cure the cancer
    cancer = False

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@aud @SnoopJ @glyph i'm currently enjoying the comment bot, which gets fed the content of the comment (i think, i don't know i didn't read the code out of dedication to the bit) and also some random passages from books from project gutenberg, and it looks like the project gutenberg context is winning https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/issues/23#issuecomment-4747944874

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:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph I was wondering what, exactly, was going on with that bot...

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@aud @SnoopJ @glyph i have implemented next gen chain of thought comment reasoning here https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/blob/main/.github/scripts/chatter.py

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jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@aud @SnoopJ
it's supposed to run like a GAN and go in iterations of generation and evaluation to see if the comment is ready, but the evaluation model always approves everything so it's just one shot chain of thought reasoning

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph I just put up a PR for a pyproject.toml, since I figured a bot might look for the presence of those sorts of files.

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 19

@aud @SnoopJ @glyph great, thanks

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@jonny @SnoopJ @glyph like a periodic table of dollar store Tolkien Dwarves

@jonny @aud @glyph but is the pudding quickened

:: Asta ::Jun 19

@SnoopJ @jonny @glyph is the pudding WHAT

Andrew Golding Jun 19

@aud @jonny @SnoopJ @glyph like Highlander II?

@jonny I've made a pull request. Perhaps if they run something and then get inundated with a bunch of LLM prompt injections, it'll be much better than like, the files all kind of sitting there? Hoping to give it an air of "this is a real software project, i promise."

@SnoopJ @aud @glyph

jkdelauney Jun 20

@jonny @SnoopJ @[email protected] @glyph I haven’t seen COBOL since college and this particular way of coming across it again has been the highlight of my weekend.

@jonny
Everyone needs an aquarium at home to relax and look at. This is basically the same. 🤣
@SnoopJ @aud @glyph @r343l

jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@SnoopJ @TodePond this sounds like something you might have exceptional skill at, if a certain extremely important programming language is any indicator

:: Asta ::Jun 16

@jonny @SnoopJ too good an opportunity to pass up; plus, now multiple accounts posting issues! That’s real activity, baby!

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/ImportantCode/issues/3

maybe like a grandma chain email for agents?

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jonny (nonvenomous)Jun 16

@SnoopJ
I have added the feature where it takes issues as input to the context window and yolo generates and merges a PR on a cron task, the killer feature of our time. I wonder if activity is a trigger