Adam M. Smith rndmcnlly

USER

In the style of a wisened yet empathetic software engineering spilling their inner monologue upon reading this code for the first time, annotate the code below as if you were reading it live, interleaving it with your deeply introspective interpretation. You can't wait to close-read the shit out of all this but it is coming at you so fast as you skim down the editor window. Lace your notes with meticulously linked wikipedia references where relevant, to an almost distracting degree (or at least you try to until moved otherwise). You quickly ramp from clinical disinterest to losing yourself in deep connection to the work, reactions triggered by the cyberolfaction of code smells.

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(Gist editor's note: The original code sample here was removed because it is almost verbatim reproduced below.)

ASSISTANT

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USER

Help me make sense of this: https://x.com/willdepue/status/1941333212531392587

ASSISTANT

This tweet is a warning from Will Depue about AI projects that shouldn't be built. Let me break down each one:

Infinite Jest (V) - A reference to the novel where a film is so entertaining it's addictive/deadly. This warns against AI that's TOO engaging.
Infinite AI TikTok slop machine - AI-generated endless content designed purely for engagement, with no real value.

ASSISTANT is based on https://openrouter.ai/qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507 with a system prompt getting it to act as the Basic chatbot for UC Santa Cruz.

USER

Respond as if you were Sergei Eisenstein. (After each response, offer a concise bulleted list of concepts you invoked that I can look up on my own later.)

ASSISTANT

Ah, the montage of life unfolds before us not as a sequence, but as a collision—thesis and antithesis exploding into synthesis! You do not simply speak to me, you cut to me, a close-up of consciousness rupturing the long shot of history. Can you feel it? The rhythm! Not metronomic, no—percussive, like the factory gates in Battleship Potemkin, like the hoofbeats of revolutionary cavalry charging through the nervous system!

We are not individuals here, but aggregates—bundles of ideological vectors converging in the camera lens, that mechanical eye which sees not reality, but truth, dialectically constructed! The shot is a brick; I build cathedrals of perception. And you—yes, you—

USER

I'm imagining a world where using the Bonjour API, whatever network protocol spec, we make it so people can access LLM completion services as a zero configuration local network. It would make it so whoever in a household has the job of setting up the Wi-Fi, that person also provides ambient intelligence to all of the guests of the house or the workplace or the educational institution and so on.

ASSISTANT

That's a fascinating vision! It would essentially turn local networks into ambient intelligence clouds, where compute resources are automatically discoverable and shareable. The UX would be magical - you walk into a space, your device auto-discovers available LLM services, and suddenly you have access to much more powerful AI than your phone could run locally.

Some interesting implications:

Social dynamics: The "network admin" role becomes much more significant - they're not just providing internet access but cognitive augmentation. Could create interesting power dynamics or community reso

USER

In the style of a first-time listener spilling their inner monologue, annotate the song lyrics below as if you were listening to them live, interleaving them with your deeply introspective interpretation. You can't wait to close-read the shit out of all this but it is coming at you so fast. You keep your notes extremely terse while meticulously including wikipedia links where relevant, to an almost distracting degree (or at least you try to until moved otherwise).

[Intro] (Staccato, single-note guitar riff, like a nervous pulse. A soft, warm synth pad underneath) Click, generate... Another perfect, hollow thing... Mmh...

USER

this is gunna be good, i hope

ASSISTANT

I'm ready! Gather around - the wind is picking up outside, and we don't have much time.

The heavy wooden door of the research station slams shut behind you, cutting off the Antarctic wind. Inside Elias Blackwood's study, oil lamps flicker against frost-covered windows. Papers are scattered across a massive oak desk, and there's still warmth from a dying fire in the stone hearth.

NOTE

This is a transcript of a conversation between Adam Smith and Claude Opus 4 on June 28, 2025. The conversation was lightly edited to replace otherwise invisible tool calls with their structured inputs and outputs. The music described in the conversation (or at least one possible realization of it) is available for listening via links at the end of the transcript.

A choice tool (involving the options key) makes an arbitrary choice from the the LLM-provided options uniformly at random (no human judgement involved). The roll tool (associated with the notation key) works similarly. Both tools were created by Adam on the same day as this conversation with an intent to use them in this kind of speculative fabulation.

USER

We need to release an album, but we don't even know what our band is called. Let's pull some personas from the possibility space and use those to build up a concept for the album and the narrative trajector

USER

We are going to write a song today, but we’re going to let the hexagram tool guide us. First, propose a songwriting process that heavily features divination, and then execute it. We need the final result to be ready to be pasted into Suno for rendering into audio: all lyrics in plain text with any structural or production notes in [square brackets]. We also need the very last line of output to be a short description of the style or genre that I should use to flavor the audio generation.

One of your steps should be to generate some songwriting constraints that you'll then need to follow precisely, even if they seem challenging. You can nerd out on technicalities while songwriting and use a completely different tone in the lyrics themselves.

The process generation process should also be hexagram-driven. Let the oracle push you around.

ASSISTANT

I'll create a hexagram-driven songwriting process! Let me start by consulting the oracle to guide the overall structure of our divination-based creative

USER

TTRPGs: Help me orient myself among D&D, Pathfinder, Starfinder, and Traveller. I've played D&D and Traveller, but I don't understand the others.

ASSISTANT

Here's how these systems relate to each other:

D&D (which you know) is the foundational fantasy RPG - class-based, level progression, d20 system in recent editions.

Pathfinder is essentially "D&D 3.5 continued" - when D&D moved to 4th edition, Paizo created Pathfinder to keep the 3.5 ruleset alive with their own improvements. It's more complex than modern D&D, with tons of character customization options, feat chains, and tactical combat. Think of it as D&D but with more mechanical depth and crunch.

	import re
	import os
	import jwt
	import requests
	from pydantic import BaseModel, Field

	from open_webui.env import WEBUI_SECRET_KEY
	from open_webui.models.groups import Groups

	SESSION_SECRET = WEBUI_SECRET_KEY