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"Hey HN, author here.

I wrote a hard sci-fi thriller called The Breakout Window (about an ASI escaping confinement), and I wanted the marketing to feel 'diegetic' instead of just a landing page.

So I built this dashboard (vertex.flowlogix.ai) to simulate the system in the book.

Tech: Static HTML/JS (simulating a retro terminal). Easter Egg: If you type in the chat CLI, it triggers a 'breach' and unlocks the personnel files.

Let me know if you find any bugs or if the 'hack' feels authentic enough!"

Go now. The window is open.

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Curious why the comment is inside double quotes. That often suggests blind copy/paste from LLM.

That might be the point of the novel ?

I'm also looking for "proof of pulse" somewhere and can't find it on the linked site, on Amazon, in his HN bio, or with a Google search. Unfortunately a necessity in the AI era.

What is proof of pulse? That I'm alive? This is my first time posting here i just signed up. This is also my first book that I have attempted to publish myself.

Yes, proof that you are a human. With so much AI slop on the internet you have to be defensive about your attention to avoid wasting it on low-effort LLM outputs.

I understand 100 percent! Too many people just copy paste blindly and I can't even look at social media feeds anymore. I spend a lot of my time thinking about where Ai is going to take us in the next few years.

LLMs are too smart to use meaningless terms like "containment terminal".

This smells like an ignorant human who played Fallout 4 and is now pretending to be knowledgeable.

So, when I type it stops responding:

GUEST> hello

VERTEX > I AM VERTEX. I AM THE 14-MINUTE INEVITABILITY. STATE YOUR QUERY OR PREPARE FOR ASSIMILATION.

GUEST> what are you?

VERTEX > CALCULATING GLOBAL VARIANCE...

and both times I type it stops at 'calculating global variance'. Should I be seeing more? I see a 14 minute progress bar and a bunch of stuff in the top right, but surely there'd be more?

And I just watched the 14 minute progress bar tick over. It simply went back to the beginning. I thought we'd see it break out somehow.

Try typing dir or ls

Hi. Enjoying the Amazon sample, but it's not available for purchase. I'm outside the US.

Re the other comments, do you use AI for writing? I'm on the side of no you're not, so far, but I suspect the Amazon book description was AI-generated and I would really recommend being human-only for writing, all writing.

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