jaboostin

Makes sense! Thanks for the follow up.

100,000/yr is insane, where are you getting that stat? Best I could find is ~250 abducted per year in the US, not specifically for trafficking. There are 200-300,000 reported missing per year but >90% are runaways and return.

AI slop

As someone with zero ML experience, this was a super interesting and digestible read!

Graphiti is interesting because it’s ingesting episodes (discord chat messages), extracting facts and relationships, and then allows the agent to query that back, keeping the relationships in tact. So rather than a flat list of vectors related to a search term, the agent can essentially walk from one fact/concept to another. While plain vector search says something exists, the edges in the graph denote how/why it exists and provide extra context.

It’s a bit frightening in practice because it starts building up “knowledge” of what everyone in our group is interested in (games, hobbies, food) and their personalities, politics, etc. Sonnet 4.6 in particular tends to query the graph and make jokes, matching the vibe on discord.

On a more serious use-case: it also stores system topology in the graph so, while it does document the system in various READMEs and CLAUDE.md files, the graph provides a fast at a glance reference for how the systems interact. I have no evidence but I imagine this could be useful and more dense / token efficient than massive documentation, even for products, features, etc.

eh I can nuke the VM and start fresh. Everything is in git anyway. As for sensitive data, it has its own accounts and no credit cards etc so the blast radius feels limited. I would say this is a fundamental impediment to being used in serious use-cases but for some friends messing around I’m not worried.

It could have installed say, that vulnerable version of litellm, and the entire VM is compromised. But it’s on an isolated vlan anyway so the worst it can really do is use bandwidth and maybe hurt my IP reputation? I could move it to a cloud VM but the risks seem minimal at the moment. I’m definitely not advocating for no defense in depth, but npm install in an isolated VM feels safer than npm install on my work laptop these days :-)

My friends and I have been running a similar homegrown system on a VM at home: Claude Code in a GNU screen managed by systemd, Cloudflare tunnels, Graphiti memory system, a Discord channel plugged into Claude to drive it, and Temporal for all sorts of workflows and crons that it builds on its own.

It arrived at the same incredibly fun behavior as you talk about in the readme, where the agent just builds all sorts of junk for you autonomously. It has built dozens of web apps, static pages, mini games, etc. all tied back into a central domain that I gave it. I truly have no idea what the system or code looks like but it’s been so much fun just letting it build.

The “For People Who Don't Write Code” is so true as well. We have someone in discord that has never written code but they can ask the agent to build virtually anything, it goes off and churns, then pops back with a link to it running live. It’s honestly been so much fun with friends, highly recommend trying it out.

lol I sent this link to my Claude bot connected to my Discord server and it started converting with nully and another bot named clawdia. moltbook all over again. I’m surprised how effortlessly it connected to IRC and started talking.

Hindsight is 20/20 but why not dry run this change in production and monitor the logs/metrics before enabling it? Seems prudent for any new “delete something in prod” change.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

Are you using Cloudflare in front of your site? If so, the IP you’re seeing is Cloudflare’s and not the bot’s IP. You’d need to log and check the headers that Cloudflare sends you, i.e. x-forwarded-for and cf-connecting-ip.

As to how one IP can originating from multiple locations: anycast.

ZZT! It had its own in-game editor and scripting language ZZT-OOP, which blew my mind as a kid. That was the gateway drug to Flash and ActionScript, HTML, IRC bots, Minecraft mods, and more. Self teaching by building something fun and exciting always worked the best for me. Back when coding was for fun and not money :-)