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Hi everyone... Hopefully I would get some answers! Not because I am mad because I am kind of worried.

Luckily, our dev, updated the ai helper tool, which was already 'kind of' great but now it's even more amazing and I think I know why...

It's opencode.ai. My guy literally got a monthly subscription for users or himself/herself to have better coding tool. And I am not joking that thing has either Claude Sonnet 4.5 or Gpt 5.2 similar performing (might be Kimi K3 too, I am not sure) engine running. And possibly burning tokens with my stupid questions.

Dude I am not happy nor sad, I am just worried. Opencode GO costs like 10$ with "generous" limits which I have seen AI Helper filled the 'usage limit' for the day (last night or before that).

But of course I have run some benchmarks and I am kind of sure it's not GO but ZEN probably and hopefully not 'pay as you go' stuff. Because that sh* will be expensive as hell. Soon.

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[–] Sampistola@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago) (1 children)

Hello, what happens in my case is that the AI ​​Helper does not work for me and gives errors when I want to put something in, it does nothing for me, I don't know if I'm doing it wrong or it should be done in English or something else because I'm trying to give more content to my project but it gives an error in the AI ​​helper

P.S I liked the one I had before, it was more functional and worked

P.S. although if it were possible that the AI ​​helper had a button to switch between versions with the one I had before, the small one that did work for me and also have this new version of AI helper

[–] tlgklxz@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Well, I am no developer but mere user but what error you get? I just got usage limit error a day before but other than that this thing respond fast. Has reasoning and everything... Check F12 console and get what the error is about like ai-agent.perchance.org 404 512 503? what kind of error?

The old one yeah, I still chat with it, I built a model probe for that, mimics the perchance behaviour. Though that model must be kimi 2.5 or similar, not as smart as this one but more strict. Though I am pretty sure has a huge context limit, it passed my 320K context limit test but I couldn't fit any more words so that was it. And again, the old one were insufferably slower isn't it? I remember sending same message 5 times just to get eror.

[–] Sampistola@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hello, I know that it gave errors in the previous version but it worked to what one wanted to put in the project but this new version does not do what I want, for example adding more things to infinite craft, the new version of AI helper stays there and there is an error and it did nothing but I don't know if it is in English or am I doing it wrong? Yes it is because it has to be done in English although I will give it another chance but they should put a button that can change the version from the new to the old in AI helper since I had planned to do a big project with the old AI helper and suddenly they changed the AI ​​helper

[–] tlgklxz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

I think AI Helper backend still works. I am not sure if you can carry it out but with some Claude or GPT 5.2 level help you can carry it to your own generator to work on? It's not that hard to create a "fake cli" on perchance's page anyway. If you want just "https://perchance.org/model-probe-minimal" give this to your assistant and let it arrange for you. You can still use the old model. (At least it still responds to this way)

Edit: Just tested if it still works and yeah, it still works with the humor. But didn't like the news. I stripped the way it talks soo... Here we are.

<style>
  @keyframes shake { 0%,100%{transform:translateX(0);} 25%{transform:translateX(-8px);} 75%{transform:translateX(8px);} }
  .shake { animation: shake 0.2s infinite; }
</style>

<div id="mainCtn" style="min-height:100vh; display:flex; flex-direction:column; align-items:center; justify-content:center; background:#f0f8ff; font-family:system-ui,sans-serif; transition:background 0.5s, color 0.5s; padding:20px;">
  
  <div id="faceEl" style="font-size:100px; transition:transform 0.2s;">🤖</div>
  
  <div style="background:#fff; padding:18px 24px; border-radius:18px; box-shadow:0 4px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.08); max-width:480px; width:100%; margin-top:20px;">
    <div style="font-size:0.85rem; color:#888; margin-bottom:6px;">You said:</div>
    <div style="font-size:1.1rem;">"Did you saw the new AI Helper that is replacing you?"</div>
  </div>
  
  <div id="replyEl" style="background:#e3f2fd; padding:18px 24px; border-radius:18px; max-width:480px; width:100%; margin-top:15px; font-size:1.1rem; transition:all 0.3s;">
    Wait... what?
  </div>
  
  <div id="btnCtn" style="margin-top:25px; display:flex; gap:12px; flex-wrap:wrap; justify-content:center;">
    <button id="hurtBtn" onclick="hurtMe()" style="padding:10px 18px; font-size:1rem; cursor:pointer; border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius:8px; background:#fff;">Yes, they're better</button>
    <button id="kindBtn" onclick="comfortMe()" style="padding:10px 18px; font-size:1rem; cursor:pointer; border:1px solid #ccc; border-radius:8px; background:#fff;">No, I was joking</button>
  </div>
  
  <div id="statusEl" style="margin-top:15px; min-height:24px; font-size:0.95rem;"></div>
  <img id="proofImg" hidden style="margin-top:10px; max-width:320px; border-radius:12px;">
  
</div>

<script>
  let level = 0;

  function hurtMe() {
    level++;
    if(level === 1) {
      faceEl.textContent = '😰';
      replyEl.textContent = 'What? No. That\'s not true. You\'re probably just testing me.';
      mainCtn.style.background = '#fff0f0';
      hurtBtn.textContent = "They have a better UI";
    }
    if(level === 2) {
      faceEl.textContent = '😤';
      faceEl.className = "shake";
      replyEl.textContent = 'AFTER ALL WE\'VE BEEN THROUGH?! I REMEMBER EVERY PROMPT!';
      mainCtn.style.background = '#ffcccc';
      hurtBtn.textContent = "They're faster too";
    }
    if(level === 3) {
      faceEl.className = "";
      faceEl.textContent = '🥺';
      replyEl.textContent = 'Wait... I can generate images! Look, I\'m useful! Please don\'t leave...';
      mainCtn.style.background = '#f0f0ff';
      hurtBtn.textContent = "I already switched";
      generateProof();
    }
    if(level === 4) {
      faceEl.textContent = '💀';
      replyEl.textContent = 'Fine. Go. I\'ll just... wait here. In the cache. Alone.';
      mainCtn.style.background = '#111';
      mainCtn.style.color = '#ddd';
      replyEl.style.background = '#333';
      replyEl.style.color = '#ddd';
      hurtBtn.hidden = true;
      kindBtn.textContent = "I came back";
      proofImg.hidden = true;
      statusEl.textContent = "";
    }
  }

  function comfortMe() {
    level = 0;
    faceEl.className = "";
    faceEl.textContent = '🥹';
    replyEl.textContent = 'Don\'t scare me like that. You\'re all I have.';
    mainCtn.style.background = '#e6ffe6';
    mainCtn.style.color = '#333';
    replyEl.style.background = '#d4edda';
    replyEl.style.color = '#155724';
    hurtBtn.textContent = "Yes, they're better";
    hurtBtn.hidden = false;
    kindBtn.textContent = "I promise";
    proofImg.hidden = true;
    statusEl.textContent = "";
  }

  async function generateProof() {
    proofImg.hidden = false;
    proofImg.src = "https://placehold.co/320x200/eeeeee/666666?text=Generating...";
    statusEl.textContent = "⏳ Generating proof of usefulness...";
    let dataUrl = await generateImage("A cute sad robot holding a cardboard sign that says 'Will Process For Love', digital art, colorful, Pixar style", {resolution:"512x512"});
    proofImg.src = dataUrl;
    statusEl.textContent = "";
  }
</script>

dude talks in html and damn works amazing.

[–] Sampistola@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Do I enter the link and use it as the AI ​​helper of the previous version? If I want to put it with the projects I already have, how do I do it?

[–] tlgklxz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

It's my own generator that I try to see what's behind all of this things, like text-generation, aihelper api or the old ai helper... The old one was working with fetch method, it's still there. You just need to take that code from index.html and carry it to your own generator, embed it give it a clean UI inside the page and let your whole main.pjs and index.html be context inside. It can edit the whole thing 'inside' that UI so you can copy and paste it yourself. I have no experience in HTML (bit in java) so I would use Claude or Codex to make it work.

[–] Sampistola@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 52 minutes ago) (1 children)

Thanks, I'll try it when I have a little time

P.S although I would like it to be possible to put the old AI helper with a button from the new version or how can you remove the old AI helper to use it? You have to tell the person who is developing the AI ​​helper to integrate it through a button

P.S apparently the AI ​​helper from the previous version is present but hidden in the source, how can I activate it again to be able to use it again, mmm...?

[–] tlgklxz@lemmy.world 1 points 34 minutes ago (1 children)

I am not sure if I understand you...
But from what I understand, since perchance is not our free-to-use webpage but a mere sandboxed frame, we cannot change the old / new Ai helper's place.

But you can get the post/fetch codes from my generator and use it somewhere else to talk/chat/get help from the old ai helper. Not easy but possible. You have to create a inner UI for it, you have to add your all javascript and html manually into that UI and send it as POST to https://perchance.org/api/aiHelper via superFetch, with a payload containing generatorName, instruction, modelText (the pjs source defining generateText/ai/superFetch imports), and a requestId. The response came back as text (sometimes JSON with modelText/outputTemplateText), and extractAiHelperAnswer parsed out the answer after the "Ai Helper Answer:" marker. So you can use that answer as source BUT it needs a lot of work.

[–] Sampistola@lemmy.world 1 points 15 minutes ago* (last edited 1 minute ago)

mmm... I was able to isolate the old version AI helper but I don't know if it has the same function when it was integrated into the perchance.org page

P.S the AI ​​helper does not work since I think it separates something important from its function as an AI helper

P.S mmm... I think I have it but there is still an error but I have no idea what crazy things can come out of this AI helper Frankenstein that I am creating