[EGreg]

I’m flattered that you followed my posts long enough to have an opinion on all this and even can recognize if a site is “definitely mine”.

Question though — what do you have against what I’m saying or working hard towards?

Trying to create healthier versions of technologies and help people?

https://www.laweekly.com/restoring-healthy-communities/

[reticulates]

go back through all of your comments from the last decade, group them by comments that promote/mention one of your projects and comments that do not. I’d ballpark 95% of your comments have been self-aggrandizing self-promotion, it is exhausting to read. I guess today was the day I said something when I saw someone else suffering through another one of your comments. You might want to create healthier technology but you have contributed nothing to HN in almost 20 years, almost impressive enough to be an achievement unto itself. I’d eat my hat if I could find a substantive comment you’ve ever written that wasn’t self-promotion.

[EGreg]

No you won’t. You won’t eat your hat — but I’ve written quite a few substantive comments on quite a few subjects that didn’t have to do with self-promotion. The difference is that those comments actually contributed LESS to HN, because they involved random arguments that were ultimately forgotten.

Excuse me, for actually trying to build things instead of just bitching and then let people on HN know about them, or posting things that I believe in. According to you, I guess I should have spent more % of my posts being snarky and attacking things others have built, like our friend here.

I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source. If you don’t want to click or use it or even look at it, that says more about you than me.

[reticulates]

And yet your next comment after this was, once again, self promotion, proving my point.

Safebots isn’t a contribution. You have just reinvented tools but bundled it with thousands of words of AI generated slop and terrible AI generated “ideas”. Everyone with Grok invents a new “computing substrate”. Yes, “substrate” is such a Grokism that I can immediately identify you use Grok for “thinking”.

If you spent just a little more time reading and a little less time self-promoting you would know that you are 12 months behind everyone else, human in the loop approval flows for tool execution are standard. The examples of LLMs doing destructive things are because users provided blanket approval.

https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#t...

“I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source.”

Code that nobody has ever used. HN is a discussion forum, you haven’t contributed to discussion. You have always been a slop merchant, quite impressive that you were slopping before LLMs, maybe you are an internet innovator after all.

[EGreg]

Wrong again. I didn’t use Grok, and I hardly use Elon’s AI models for anything LOL

Also, sadly, your common predilection on HN to ridicule and scorn everything is biasing you against the most important set of solutions in AI. It ain’t about making the models safer - more aligned - or refusals. For what it’s worth I’ll try to share one more article with you, but I doubt you’ll get it: https://safebots.ai/about

So you’d have me engage in “discussion” by which you mean criticizing work others do. Sorry to disappoint you by ACTUALLY building working solutions to actual problems, instead of just bitching 24/7. Must make you really aggravated to have to hear about that. Yes, I have been working on free software for a decade before LLMs. And giving it away for free. Ooh, I’m such a moocher on your time! You’re always free to scroll past and continue “contributing” the next 10 years of snarky comments. Maybe you can even speed it up with LLMs — I am sure it will greatly improve people’s lives :)

[reticulates]

You’re back to the grandiose claims. The most important set of solutions in AI? Just as intercoin was the most important solution for money and qbix was the most important solution for community. You’ve been doing the same shtick for 20 years. Yawn. A month / year / decade from now when you’re still doing the same grandiose shit with zero traction, refer back to this thread. You are clearly intelligent but wasting all your potential on churning out grandiose-but-garbage ideas that you would know are the wrong thing if you spent more time listening and less time broadcasting. You’ve been shouting into the void for so long, maybe it is time to reflect on why that is. But then I guess if you’re not nauseated and ashamed by your ChatGPT conversation you may be too far gone https://chatgpt.com/share/691a9edc-b5b8-800a-99a3-c32d9abccf...

I’ll give you a million dollars if safebot is ever mentioned by someone credible. You don’t seem to realize that you are 1 of millions of people doing exactly the same thing, I have read so many of these revolutionary safety ideas, the only thing worse are all the god awful “memory” solutions people keep “inventing”.

[EGreg]

Come on, who's making ridiculous claims here?

"I'll eat my hat". No, you won't.

"I'll give you a million dollars." Sir, you likely don't have a million dollars to just give away like that. And even if you had, you wouldn't do it.

So, one of us is making actual, true claims based on years of hard work. You may consider them grandiose -- and you're entitled to your opinion -- but I can back it up with actual actions. Your claims are... well, just false.

Here is "someone credible" mentioning Safecloud just 2 weeks ago, and by mentioning, I mean writing an article about it appearing on their front page: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/06/19/safecloud-browser...

Here are their own "grandiose" claims about themselves:

Help Net Security is an industry-leading cybersecurity publication with over 350,000 readers per month. Since 1998, we have been committed to providing high-quality information to our audience through publishing relevant original content and analyzing market trends. https://www.linkedin.com/company/helpnetsecurity

Okay, that was Safecloud, not Safebots. But what if, say, I give a talk at a conference about Safebots, or it's starting to get covered in magazines? If we get a thousand users all using safebots? Ten thousand? What if Robert Scoble interviews me, or a bunch of influencers start using it? At what point can you say "someone credible mentioned safebot and here's your million dollars" LOL

And I don't mean mention in a dubious way, like when the BBC covered our unfortunate flirtation with using monero mining to pay for our apps... somehow our app was used by enough people around the world that Newsweek, the BBC, 9to5Mac, ArsTechnica (which broke the story) etc. cared: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-43386918

That's not the kind of publicity I'm looking for. But honestly, I'm curious. Are you a secret billionaire with a few exits under your belt who would toss a million bucks to me if "safebot is ever mentioned by someone credible"? No? Then maybe the "grandiose" claims are not on my side :)