[mindcrime]

Seems to be the trendy thing to do these days:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44431943

It's cool I guess. I'd be a hypocrite I guess, to suggest otherwise given that I also did a "pgbot" thing[1] a long time ago.

But somehow these newer things feel different. I think what I did was very obviously a joke, especially since it only had like 7 responses it could generate. But even then I felt a little iffy about publishing the code, and I always figured if pg contacted me and said "take this shit down" I'd do so immediately. And I never instantiated it as a running service, so anybody who wanted to play with it had to deal with setting it up to run somewhere (something I doubt anyone has ever done).

Something like this though, that's based on his entire corpus of essays and can make a semi-plausible attempt to replicate him as a publicly available service? I dunno. I guess I wonder if it's not in bad taste to do this with a living person without asking for permission? Or maybe you did and this is all a moot point.

[1]: https://github.com/mindcrime/pgbot

[stewlabs]

Interesting - yea not sure if there is a use case just yet. We also did it with Warren Buffett shareholder letters etc. I think there might be use cases for folks who have large audiences and want to be able to reply to everyone without a full overseas chatting team.