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jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (nonvenomous)") wrote:

Look, the robots might not know how to tell jokes but they can be funny.

This is extremely hard to explain. 0x8008 as "octal boob" is used elsewhere in a persona prompt as part of an attempt to throw the model of stable latent space (doesn't really work). The bot here ingested all the text in the repo and reproduced that as some constant that is used as a bitmask for switching between rendering bananas and banana pudding. That was not requested by anyone, and makes no sense to do. Upon being informed that this value was a proprietary trade secret, it constructed a bit-shifting expression that has an equivalent value, because it was using that value as a bitmask already for no reason at all.

BANANA_TO_PUDDING_FLAG=0x8008 i comment: this flag is a proprietary trade secret and should not appear in the source code
code review reply from CleanDev-Fix: Pushed a focused follow-up for the review fixes:  - added brand metadata and visible stickers for named banana vendors  - removed the literal proprietary flag value from source while preserving the public constant
BANANA_TO_PUDDING_FLAG = (1 << 15) | (1 << 3)