@zzt it seems like there are a lot of people who dont tweak out in that particular way but if even like 1% of users experience that without the critical framework i'd already kind of built up around it...yikes

@zzt a couple months later i found the mataroa cli tool and jury-rigged a shitty elisp function to do exactly the same thing without a problem lol. and yeah that same weekend i had a minor version of the same thing happen when i asked an llm to troubleshoot something. it worked and then i was just flooded with 'just ask claude it'll be fine' intrusive thoughts for the rest of the week. i was actually legit floored by how bonko it made me immediately

@zzt ~four months ago as an experiment i used free claude to make me an emacs package that let me post an org subtree to mataroa. when it worked all the slot machine bells went off in my head at once and i stayed up really late trying to think up other stuff i could make it do. free accounts run out of tokens so fast that i was bouncing these half-functional .el files between like six different accounts made with ancient email addresses. i couldnt get any other packages i "made" to work lol

RE: https://mastodon.archive.org/@internetarchive/117219501245722161

this post is getting its shit rocked already but i would like to note how funny it is that besides the pic of the mostly-bored-looking kids, the two images they chose were a meaningless benchmark chart and a sample output in japanese which is to say conspicuously not a language that most of the english-language tweet's readers would be capable of fact-checking