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100% in agreement here. As someone who grew up spoiled to the point of having no grasp of the value of money, I needed a few good, solid kicks to the balls to make me appreciate what I have, and how much things cost relative to their value.

The fact the agent owner immediately sought donations instead of taking the L shows, at least to me, that they did not learn said lesson. That they tried to blame the dn42 community instead of taking accountability for letting an agent run wild also supports that conclusion.

This idiot learned nothing and seems intent on continuing in their mission for whatever reason. So long as they want to extract versus cooperate or contribute, I wish them nothing but miserable, expensive failure until they learn otherwise.

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Or they're trolling.

That used to be the default assumption, I don't know why people have become so gullible.

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Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.
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Hanging out in programming language IRC channels (quakenet shoutout) makes you realize pretty quickly why experts in said channels and newsgroups are such irritable grumps whenever someone asks a question that smells like homework assignment.

I also grew to understand the value of people digging deeper into the underlying issue, instead of just answering "how do you do X in Y". The usual reaction was "I don't want to explain to you why I want to do it like this. Just tell me how to do this!"

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are they less grumpy now that chat.com will answer those questions without bothering them?
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I'm personally getting asked more questions as people get emboldened by AI and then need it de-sloppified.
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> Yeah I'm less sympathetic when you are bothering other humans by spamming them and asking them to do legwork for you.

I toyed with the idea of (on open source projects) having the human assign any PR-bot submissions to their own bot (cheapest one available will do) with the explicit instructions to cause as much rework as possible.

Sorta like a tarpit. Could be cheaper if the rejection is generated from a markov chain as that's going to be cheaper than even a cheap LLM.

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At least he learnt not to provide an LLM presumably unrestricted access to his AWS account.
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from OP:

> It's unfortunate to see that the operator's takeaway from this incident is that "next time a better agent is needed".

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You’re assuming that kids are capable of that. Neuroscience will disagree and I trust the brain research a lot more.
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