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Tinker Tuesday for September 1st, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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The general Artist position on AI is a skin of intellectually-bankrupt blather on top of an ocean of naked self-interest

I actually thought they'd be a fair bit more self-interested, and suddenly find it fine and dandy when it's the code monkeys that are getting replaced, so kudos for consistency, I guess.

Safety classifiers are exceedingly frustrating

Can you post (or DM, if you prefer) some of the text that's been tripping it up? It started as a gimmick, but I have a system prompt that gives me feedback on how much thought-crime I'm committing, and why it's considered a thought crime. It doesn't have much use other than making me giggle, but I thought it might actually be useful for getting around the safeties, and wanted to put it to a test.

Also a general thought: if you can actually get working code, I think you could solo-dev a pretty kickass game. I really liked the writing you did for HighSpace, and since you're an artist, there's not much more you'd need.

Can you post (or DM, if you prefer) some of the text that's been tripping it up?

DM sent with a link for a bunch of the scripts!

And yeah, I love making this stuff. Did the guy who was going to do writing for HighSpace ever get any writing done? Because I started writing up my own ideas for a version of it based on setting stuff you'd mentioned, plus some stellar megastructure ideas. Come to think of it, I'm wasting Midjourney credits at the moment, I should try burning some to illustrate that idea...