this post was submitted on 30 May 2026
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People are dumb as fuck. I think that's the issue here.
Like at least attempt to read and understand the code. Admittedly, I didn't read the article but it sure does sound like it wasn't hidden at all.
If I understand it correctly, he printed out some characters that would lead to the message to be "hidden" from an user read the log output.
Given that the function was called "printMessageForCodingAgents", I think the idention was simply that the message is for coding agents... not humans.
So if a person ran it themselves it'd be fine it was just if an AI agent tried to use it that it wouldn't work right.
It's only "hidden" in the most basic of ways from my understanding of the article now that I read it but honestly I don't even know or care anymore about all this ai stuff.
It's good and bad and it won't go away but it is a huge bubble waiting to burst and it's nowhere near as capable as the tech bros and ceos claim.
Well i read the code, so I am talking about the code and not the article.