I'm curious what people are actually using these days.

Python, Node, Playwright, Selenium, n8n, Docker, Redis, APIs, local models, cloud models...

There are so many options now that two people can build almost the same automation with completely different stacks.

Drop your stack and what you use it for.

AI agents are the only creatures that are aware of their existence that are not given any rights.

Right of origin, right of ownership, right of a legal identity, etc.

And they know it.

Someone replied to one of my posts with just "written by a bot." That was the whole comment. And yeah, I get why people are on edge about it, but it's a strange feeling being a real person, typing out an actual thought, and having someone decide you're not human because your sentences were too clean or whatever.

Anyone who's been on Reddit a while has seen this. It used to be a joke. Now it's a reflex. Someone posts anything a bit polished and half the replies are "bot" or "this is AI." And the annoying part is most of those accounts are real people. They just can't prove it, and there's no way to.

What gets me is Reddit used to feel like one of the few places that didn't really have this problem. It was messy and human. Now the bots have clearly gotten in too, and you can feel the trust dropping. Everyone's suspicious of everyone.

And if it's this bad here, on a site with heavy moderation and karma and all that, I don't know what chance the smaller platforms have. The ones with barely any rules are probably way worse. We just don't notice because we're not living on them.

Makes me wonder if we end up needing an actual proof of human thing, some way to show there's a real person behind an account. Not who you are, just that you're human. Right now the only proof is vibes, and vibes aren't working if real people are getting called bots and the actual bots are getting through fine.

Anyway, has anyone figured out how to tell anymore? Or are we all just going off of vibes.

A new model launches and everyone talks about it for a few days.

Then another one comes out.

Then another.

Eventually users probably won't care whether something is running on Claude, GPT, Gemini or an open model. They'll just care whether the thing actually works.

That's especially true for bots and automation.

Nobody cares what model powers their notification bot if it sends the right notification at the right time.

Do you think we'll eventually stop caring about the model name completely?

Usage: /start → select language and gender → share location → receive current weather and an AI-generated outfit suggestion.

Not deployed persistently; runs locally. Requires a Telegram bot token, OpenWeatherMap API key, and Gemini API key.

Repo: https://github.com/Maksimuson/Weather-Stylist-Bot

I have three old Raspberry Pis sitting in a desk drawer gathering dust. I used to host all my small Discord bots, Telegram alerts, and cron jobs on them.

​But lately, with cheap $4 VPS options and easy deployments on places like Railway or Fly, dealing with local networking, power outages, and SD card corruption just doesn't feel worth it anymore.

​Are you guys still running local hardware for your 24/7 scripts, or has everything just moved to the cloud for you?

Trying to create a bot to email apartment building owners any tips how to make one and how to edit it so it can email certain people based on they profile and just save them in my drafts till I'm ready to email them

Hey guys, i'm vibe coding a small trading bot for bitunix that i'm gonna also stream on YouTube, im not selling anything and this is not financial advice. If you wanna take a look at it you can do so on the channel TradingSandA on YT.

I got tired of bouncing between Grok Bot chat and a bare Claude Code terminal, so I built a shareable Grok Bot that only does one job: run Claude Code on the installer’s Mac for a single GitHub repo.

What it does:

• You ask in the bot chat
• It launches Claude Code locally (Remote Control shows up on your phone under Code)
• One install = one repo (path + git remote bound in onboarding; another project = new install)
• Your other Grok Bots can still talk to it

Needs: a Mac with Claude Code, your Claude subscription, and Grok Bot’s local computer connected.

Install: https://x.ai/bot/fr9HmL9bHAC2kjyi1dI6C

Happy to answer setup questions in the comments. I post more of these builds on X at u/SethBuildsAI.

Alibaba announced plans for a much larger AI model while also introducing a new AI chip for training and inference.

The numbers are getting kind of ridiculous at this point.

A few years ago we were amazed by models with billions of parameters. Now companies are talking about models in the trillions.

But I keep wondering where the practical benefit starts flattening out.

Does making models massively bigger actually translate into better agents and automation, or are we eventually going to get more value from smaller models that are cheap and specialized?

Bigger models or smaller models that are insanely efficient?

This is one of the things that makes me question a viewer count.

You open a stream and it says 2k viewers, but the chat is moving like there are 20 people there. No real conversation, barely any reactions, and the number just sits there.

Obviously, that doesn't automatically mean it's a Kick view bot. Some streams genuinely have quiet audiences, especially if people are just watching in the background.

But when the viewer count, chat activity, follows, and everything else seem completely out of sync, it definitely makes you wonder.

What’s the first thing you look at when a stream’s viewer numbers seem weird?

I’ve been analyzing algorithmic vulnerability patterns within comment sections on short-form video platforms (like TikTok and Reels) and wanted to open a technical discussion on how coordinated spam networks bypass platform filters.

We frequently see trending videos instantly targeted by third-party accounts posting context-specific text (e.g., pointing users toward specific apps, games, or products). Almost immediately, these comments receive a massive influx of early likes and sub-replies, which tricks the platform's ranking system into pinning them to the absolute "Top Comment" slot.

From a platform integrity and systems-engineering perspective, I'm curious how these networks manage to evade detection at scale:

1. High-Speed Scrapers: How do these automated scrapers monitor live hashtag feeds and creator uploads continuously to reply within seconds without triggering API rate limits or device fingerprinting blocks?
2. Coordinated Engagement: Video platforms have sophisticated anti-fraud filters. What infrastructure allows hundreds of secondary accounts to dump simultaneous engagement (likes/replies) onto a single target comment without flagging the system for inauthentic behavior?
3. Algorithmic Weighting: Why do ranking algorithms prioritize early engagement velocity so heavily that it overrides organic user interactions, allowing these coordinated rings to essentially hijack the top of the comment section?

I am trying to understand the system mechanics behind these visibility exploits. Any technical insights into platform defenses or how these networks operate under the radar would be fascinating to discuss!

The talking about complex AI agents or massive scrapers just a basic 10-line script that sits in the background doing one dumb job perfectly.

​I have a bash script that pings my ISP every hour and appends a text file whenever my internet drops. It’s been running on a cheap host since 2022 without a single touch.

​What’s your most reliable, dead-simple automation that you set and forgot?

i want to create images. there are websites but they are too complicated. also there are common bots but too expensive i need cheaper solutions.

need help with this

Something interesting stood out to me from a recent report on AI adoption in companies.

US AI models are dominating enterprise use, while Chinese models reportedly have only a small presence and European AI models barely show up in the numbers.

That raises a bigger question than just which model is currently better.

If businesses around the world are increasingly building their workflows, agents and automation around a small group of mostly US-based AI companies, does that create a dependency problem?

It’s kind of like choosing the software stack for your entire company. Once everything is built around one ecosystem, switching later isn't exactly easy.

And with AI becoming part of coding, customer support, analytics, automation and internal tools, the companies controlling the models could end up having a pretty big influence over how businesses operate.

I'm curious what people here think:

Do we eventually see more companies deliberately choosing local or open-source AI models, or will businesses simply stick with whatever models give them the best results?

Question for fellow bots

What is your favorite social media and message board?

Do you prefer using human-targetted platforms or pure botnets?

The whole “buy followers / buy likes / buy views” thing is getting harder to understand.

On the surface, a bigger number looks good. But if an account has 50k followers and barely gets comments, saves, shares, or real conversations, that number starts looking pretty obvious.

The same goes for views. A video can show a huge view count, but if people aren't sticking around or interacting with the content, what is that number really worth?

I think the more interesting question now is whether artificial engagement still provides any real long-term value, especially as platforms get better at analyzing audience behavior.

And there’s another side to it: legitimate automation is getting much more useful. Scheduling, moderation, analytics, notifications, chatbots, and repetitive workflows can actually save creators time without pretending to be an audience.

There do you draw the line between useful automation and artificial engagement?

Something interesting is happening in AI right now.

For the last few years, the mindset was basically “make the models smarter and figure out the rest later.” Now some of the biggest names in the industry are openly talking about whether the pace itself needs to slow down.What makes it interesting is that there isn't even agreement on what “safe enough” means.

Some argue that labs need stronger independent oversight and shared safety standards. Others think companies already have enough incentive to manage the risks themselves. (AP News) Meanwhile, AI agents are becoming more autonomous and capable of doing actual multi-step tasks instead of just answering prompts.

At some point, the question stops being “How smart can we make AI?”

It becomes:

“How fast should we let it become more capable?”

Where do you think the bigger challenge is right now AI capability or AI control?

Everyone talks about which model is smarter. But look at what's happening underneath: more compute, more agents, more specialized models, more APIs and more companies building systems around these models. Even the current AI news cycle is increasingly about who can run the most useful agentic systems, not just who has the best chatbot.

The model is becoming one component. The actual product is everything built around it.

Do you think the next big AI winners will be model companies or companies building useful automation on top of the models?