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So people are mad that the "Anti-AI Release" with a ".noai" file with the content
Did a print out that they "couldn't read" as the dev "hide" it when the whole thing was a system.out.print in a function called printMessageForCodingAgents added in the commit with the message "Added message for AI coding agents." As, again, the "Anti-AI Release".
Something tells me that maybe the issue is somewhere else.
People are dumb as fuck. I think that's the issue here.
Like at least attempt to read and understand the code. Admittedly, I didn't read the article but it sure does sound like it wasn't hidden at all.
If I understand it correctly, he printed out some characters that would lead to the message to be "hidden" from an user read the log output.
Given that the function was called "printMessageForCodingAgents", I think the idention was simply that the message is for coding agents... not humans.
So if a person ran it themselves it'd be fine it was just if an AI agent tried to use it that it wouldn't work right.
It's only "hidden" in the most basic of ways from my understanding of the article now that I read it but honestly I don't even know or care anymore about all this ai stuff.
It's good and bad and it won't go away but it is a huge bubble waiting to burst and it's nowhere near as capable as the tech bros and ceos claim.
If a person ran it manually, they'd see nothing and do nothing.
If an AI agent runs it, it reads the instructions to delete everything and either has some functioning safeguards... or, well, does as instructed because it's a moron without any of the human judgement that would make us pause and consider whether we should delete our project because some log lines tell us so.
Well i read the code, so I am talking about the code and not the article.