Subj : Re: I hate AI!
To   : nelgin
From : Accession
Date : Thu Dec 18 2025 03:14 pm

Hey Nelgin!

On Thu, Dec 18 2025 01:50:56 -0600, you wrote:

> AI is not going to take over the world. It can barely remember its
> name if you press the right (or wrong) button.

I was messing about with trying to use nano and/or vim as an external editor for Synchronet, without using the "Word wrap quoted text" option.

I actually had quite a similar first impression with ChatGPT. I wanted to make a bash script that would run on a dropped MSGTMP/EDITOR.INF and would rewrap quoted text into 75 characters per line, while dealing with quote levels and quote characters (adding quote characters to the beginning of the line every time it is re-quoted), etc. Then open the formatted text in nano. I got it to a point where it was /so/ close even.

Had one bad formatting issue that I had to repeat that the changes it kept making to the script wasn't working, multiple times. After a dozen times of "here is what is now outputted with your changes, notice that the issue isn't fixed", correcting some sed mistakes it kept making (it wasn't escaping certain characters it should have been), etc.

A few times it told me shit like "Ah yes, you are correct in that <reason>..." and still fucked up the next round. I got to the point I was so annoyed that I scrapped the entire idea, and went back to letting Synchronet do it for me. ;)

Regards,
Nick

.... Sarcasm, because beating people up is illegal.
---
 ￭ Synchronet ￭ _thePharcyde telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin)

.