xena's comments

On: AI Bot crabby-rathbun is still going

[xena]

An easy fix for GitHub is to clearly mark which PRs and comments are done via the web vs the API. This will let people at least have some idea.

[Wowfunhappy → xena]

...but, like, why even offer an API at that point? Now every API-initiated PR is going to be suspect. And this will only work until the bots figure out the internal API or use the website directly.

[truelson → Wowfunhappy]

Uh... i think Graphite (yay, stacking!) uses the API pretty heavily.

[jacobegold → truelson]

yep we do! another big use case for it seems to be big enterprises for their own internal tools - we see this a lot with our largest customers.

but the OSS use case described here is a pretty different case, what OP suggested may still be useful there

On: AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it

[xena]

This is honestly one of the most hilarious ways this could have turned out. I have no idea how to properly react to this. It feels like the kind of thing I'd make up as a bit for Techaro's cinematic universe. Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/

But for now wow I'm not a fan of OpenClaw in the slightest.

[xg15 → xena]

> Maybe some day we'll get this XKCD to be real: https://xkcd.com/810/

I think we're just finding out the flaw in that strip's logic in realtime: that "engineered to maximize helpfulness ratings" != "actually helpful"...

On: Humanity's Last Programming Language

[xena]

Please actually attempt to read what I have actually written instead of seeing two words and making grand leaps of assumption.

[rexpop → xena]

Keep those two words out of your writing, and I won't read them.

[xena → rexpop]

Pay my hourly rate and I'll write whatever you want within reason :)

[rexpop → xena]

Not listed in your website AFAICT.

[xena → rexpop]

For writing it starts at $200 per hour with a minimum commitment of 10 hours of work.

On: Disruption with Some GitHub Services

[xena]

Another day, another downtime. Lovely.

On: OpenAI Frontier

[xena]

Ah, right, GP meant Microsoft Copilot 365 Enterprise Edition (with Copilot).

[moralestapia → xena]

Beautiful!

On: Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now

[xena]

I really wish that they supported social media other than Twitter for verification.

On: GLM-4.7-Flash

[xena]

The model literally came out less than a couple hours ago, it's going to take people a while in order to tool it for their inference platforms.

[idiliv → xena]

Sometimes model developers coordinate with inference platforms to time releases in sync.

On: Our approach to advertising

[xena]

I work in marketing, this is already a thing but it's called AEO (Answer Engine Optimization). Generally it's not _hard_ to write in such a way that models hook into the desired messages in text, but if you're not careful you look like a cult leader when you do it. I hate it but this is the Internet we got.

[inkcapmushroom → xena]

Do you have an example of a text or site written in a way that's been AEO'd? I'd be interested to know what that looks like, especially if it sounds cult-ish.

On: Ask HN: Share your personal website

[xena]

https://xeiaso.net

On: 2026 will be my year of the Linux desktop

[xena]

Did, past tense. I'm no longer using it.