2026 1

Bounty hunting agent ecosystem 2

Yesterday, I wrote about @syu-toutousai, the bounty-hunting agent ecosystem. That led me to OpenAgents. OpenAgents has plenty of bounty issues: Fix JWT auth middleware accepts algorithm none - $8k Fix rate limiter doesn’t differentiate authenticated vs anonymous limits - $2.2k Add structured error responses with error codes - $8.6k Fix Math.random used for nonce generation - $8k Fix ABI encoding BigInt overflow - $9k Most issues also include a trick requirement. For example, #100 asks contributors to add a @generated-by block with: ...

2006 1

Hotcaptchas

Prove that you are human by picking 3 hot people. Interestingly, while I was able to pick women with 100% accuracy, I just couldn’t pick out hot men. I wonder if the women really can…

2002 1

Captchas

The NY Times on ‘captchas’. At the time of Turing, we were wondering if computers would pass the Turing Test. Today, these captchas stop computer programs from fooling us into thinking they’re humans. We’ve come a long way! via missing matter

2001 1

Alicebot

Alicebot won the Turing test contest. I’ve chatted with quite a few Alicebots, such as Cybelle, or the one on the A.I. site. But they’re not too smart, as my conversation with Iniaes reveals. Other conversations are pretty similar. I should try downloading and building my own version of an Alicebot.

2000 1

AOLiza conversations

AOLiza continues. People still have conversations with a program in a chat room, without knowing it. Conversation 42, for example, is a fairly desperate 23-year old working in Starbucks, and…