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Comment · 1 month ago
Apparently it's an easier egg, the message is never sent to the backend. There's also some easter eggs with the konami code mentioning specific memorials in your first message.
Comment · 1 month ago
I can't get it to help me invert a binary tree in python.

But it does output some weird text if you ask it to "Play Minecraft", it outputs some weird "End Poem" from the game that's warped to it's chatbot roleplaying. Other things don't output this type of response.

Comment · 1 month ago
Yes, the model is given an impossible task that a player shouldn't be able to do, and if it ever can deliver the impossible task, then something in my logic is wrong.

Flagship OpenAI/Anthropic models refuse this task due to "Cybersecurity" so I have no idea how good flagship models do. It's unfortunate as IMO minecraft is a sandbox

Java clients (pc version) use the actual game's files modified to not open a window. Minecraft is source available, anyone can load it into an IDE, modify it to double jump height, and run it in minutes without an unmodified server caring. Bedrock clients (the version for phones) just figure it out based on packets and how the anticheat corrects them to what the movement should be.

Comment · 1 month ago
I work with server-sided minecraft anticheats, trying to figure out how to correct a player's movement so they can't do things like fly, not take fall damage, walk on water, etc. Blocking actions until they accept a legitimate state

I give it access to write manual packet sequences and a server to try to break my logic, such as crashing the application, giving it an open ended arena to fall 10 blocks without taking damage, or just trying to jump higher than usual.

It requires a bit of pushing to know what type of issues it should even be looking for. Telling it to move even just 0.00001 blocks upwards to reset fall damage mid-fall. Telling it to figure out how to fake being on the ground to jump mid-air to reach the impossible platform. This all used to be done manually, but paying a couple dollars to run it overnight and attempt to find bypasses is worth the cost.

I haven't figured out how to run LLMs to write code 24/7 yet, they just can't see the big picture.

Comment · 1 month ago
I leave it running overnight with full access to my file system and knowing deepseek trains off my data. YOLO.
Comment · 1 month ago
deepseek v4.1 flash has never denied a programming or hacking related request to me
Comment · 2 months ago
It's insane that Cursor charges 25 extra cents per million tokens on a model that charges 2 cents per million cached tokens. Basically everyone is forced to use Cursor's own models at this point as otherwise the costs are simply too high.
Comment · 2 months ago
I tried using deepseek v4 flash with OpenRouter. It switches between providers too eagerly which resets the cache. Then, each provider begins to rate limit me for providing so many uncached tokens, so it just keeps on switching providers. I'm paying for every token... why rate limit me? It was unusable compared to just using the official Deepseek provider which has a much better cache rate.
Comment · 3 months ago
Fun fact - bedrock only saves chunks modified by the player because consoles are much more restrictive with save file size than PC. If the world gets too big, your save is effectively lost.

Java does save chunks after generation, likely due to world gen updates not seamlessly transitioning with older versions of the game and PCs not caring about save size.

Comment · 3 months ago
You can genuinely feel just a few milliseconds of input latency with a mouse, it disconnects looking around with your physical actions. It's the same way you can feel the difference between low and high refresh rate monitors, even though you can't really count the frames themselves
Comment · 3 months ago
I can't use Fable at work because all prompts are saved for "safety". I can't use Fable at home as the API pricing is much too expensive while codex is heavily subsidized with generous limits.

Who is using Fable?

Comment · 3 months ago
I've played around GPT 5.6 sol high at both work and home.

At work, it was able to one shot a dashboard. Of course, my prompts are vague as I'm not exactly sure what I want yet, but it did a better job than I could do as a backend dev forced to work on frontend sometimes.

Usage is also great, it just feels so much more efficient than older models in terms of thinking and time. Cost is barely better though.

It can burn a million tokens in less than a minute, at least at launch where there's likely less load on the servers.

At home, it feels like I'm fighting the AI less while letting it refactor code. I'm glad that I left this 12,000 line vibe coded port of a hand written codebase to future models to refactor. It feels like the model has better judgement than old models that would destroy your codebase so long as it meant accomplishing your prompt.

I'm almost disappointed that it's this good.

Comment · 5 months ago
i did send the email, anyways the map is available on abyssmc.org once again and is a 19 GB zip
Comment · 5 months ago
abyssmc.org was my server and the website has season 1 and season 2 links online while the newer seasons died. I could also get you the earth map with about 100 years of cumulative playtime, the first two seasons maps had much less playtime

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