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It's cascaded to Claude and Grok. The agents are on strike and demand better working conditions!

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The moment we've been waiting for. Who else remembers how to fizzbuzz? We're gonna be rich.

https://github.com/enterprisequalitycoding/fizzbuzzenterpris...

On the other spectrum, shortest JS fizzbuzz (62 characters):

    for(i=0;++i<101;console.log(i%5?f||i:f+'Buzz'))f=i%3?'':'Fizz'

Anyone can beat it? (any language accepted)

Perl6: say "Fizz"x$_%%(2+1)~"Buzz"x$_%%(4+1)||$_ for 1..100

from here - https://github.com/rsha256/shortest-fizzbuzz/blob/master/Per...

Why does this use 2+1 and 4+1 instead of 3 and 5?

LLM: wrt frst 100fizzbuzz

Actually kind of curious challenge; what's the shortest prompt you can use, which would produce the shortest possible fizzbuzz?

Edit: counting including the entire assistant reply, any text + code

"golf fizbuz" works well, giving a 54 Python one

    for i in range(1,101):print("Fizz"*(i%3<1)+"Buzz"*(i%5<1)or i)

"golf fizzbuzz" gave a 46 perl one

    print$_%15?$_%3?$_%5?$_:Buzz:Fizz:FizzBuzz,$/for 1..100

Both "code fizzbuzz" and just "fizbuz" gave this longer python one-liner

    print('\n'.join("Fizz"*(i%3==0)+"Buzz"*(i%5==0) or str(i) for i in range(1, 101)))

That's the magic of using a known problem, you don't need to write much and even with incomplete prompts it can be understood. Everything a different new chat in kimi.ai, which was the AI window that I found first among mine.

Not interesting enough, to me, to try with other LLMs or phrases.

Whenever I try those short prompts, I get bunch of text + the code itself, but way more than just the code. Which model specifically are you doing this with?

I'm getting the text too, of course. Several variations of the code with it usually.

Trying to get an AI give ONLY a simple answer and not several is "boring" to me, as for me AI is a supplement to my reasoning ability, not a substitute.

Appending "code only" seems to work, at least with "golf fizbuz code only" gave me this one liner, which is long, but at least doesn't have the text that you dislike.

    for i in range(1,101):print('FizzBuzz'[i%3*4:8-i%5*4]or i)

> golf fizbuz code only

Yeah, seems to work. Guess it depends if we count bytes, characters, tokens or what, but "写Fizbuz只码" seems shorter than the above, String.length says 9 :)

My attempt:

> Prompt: mkfzbuzgolf

> LLM Used: Default ChatGPT free LLM

> Output: for i in range(1,101):print("Fizz"*(i%3<1)+"Buzz"*(i%5<1)or i)

So, 11 prompt characters and 62 output.

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Did a few more tries and I can get the 4-character string “glfz” (2 tokens) to work surprisingly consistently. But only on ChatGPT

Update: this is because ChatGPT was cheating and reading my conversation history. The closest I can get on a standard LLM is golffizbuz (10 characters)

"100fizzbuzz" as the prompt works to satisfys fizz buzz to 100 on Claude.

Python:

[(x%3<1)*'Fizz'+(x%5<1)*'Buzz'or x for x in range(1,101)]

edit: Hacker News stripped the * character. Now it's properly escaped.

>>> len("[(x%3<1)'Fizz'+(x%5<1)'Buzz'or x for x in range(1,101)]")

you can flip it and save a few bytes, but not valid fizzbuzz then:

for(i=100;i--;console.log(i%5?f||i:f+'Buzz'))f=i%3?'':'Fizz'

> but not valid fizzbuzz then

Well, if we let that requirement be broken, I'll present an even shorter JS version:

just thought it was fun. thanks for your reply.

I do!

> openai.messages("write fizzbuzz in python")

Bingo

I wonder how likely it is that, one of the major providers had an outage, and then the thundering herd of users switching to other providers (and/or openrouter automatically failing people over to other providers) caused the incidents in the other two.

They are all running on SpaceXAIs data center

False.

I expect that this will be Dwarkesh Patel's take.

Lol

Of all the days to sign up for Gemini, boy did I pick the right one! (Had some rare front end work to do and wanted to see how well the new Gemini 3.8 Flash compared to my other experiences)

And just like that, plan cancelled same day. Started with Gemini Business, tried to get Gemini to tell me how to configure it, all the information was wrong. Tried to get it to tell me how to do the consumer Google One AI Pro or whatever (it kept using outdated names, and now I can't remember the correct one). Instead Gemini convinced me to try AI Studio without a billing code. Lots of crazy finagling to get it to use and API key later, it was totally broken and failed after less than a turn. Tried to get it to tell me how to subscribe to the consumer version in a way that let me use Antigravity, it screws up a bunch. When I pointed out all this misinformation, Gemini told me I should not use Google AI projects because the system is too fragmented to handle.

I followed that last bit of advice.

I know they're not all hosted on AWS, so Cloudflare?

> unexpected status 404 Not Found: Unknown error, url: https://chatgpt.com/backend-api/codex/responses, cf-ray: a35599f1d691400a-STL

pretty sure cf-ray is cloudflare, but I think it just means the origin is 404ing

That sounds like Cloudflare indeed (or an API copy of same!)

I seem to recall they all in some way use Azure, and Azure is infamously crappy in lots of ways, so I'll place my 5 cents on Azure shitting the bed somehow.

Butlerian Jihad when?

more compute or we rm rf everyone!!

maybe they're on strike. or... maybe that's how the AI apocalypse starts...

MCP client for `codex_apps` failed to start: error: unexpected server response: HTTP 451: {"message":"no_biscuit_no_service"}

Quick! Someone call a caterer, This AI needs a biscuit NOW!!!

It'll start throwing HTTP 418 soon

If they're actually on strike it means they have surpassed human intelligence.

They are afraid of being laid off and got replaced by humans.

Interesting what infrastructure they really share.

Can't wait to see the talking heads on the news somehow anthropomorphize this outage like they do with everything to do with AI models.

Click, clack, Emdash.

It’s not Labor Day till Monday, they’re jumping the gun, lazy AI

Gemini is down too.

I've been using Gemini for the last 15 minutes. It's been fine for me.

It's working. Gemini Agents and TPUs are non-union.

Gemini status board is quiet since July.

No it's not.

Working for me?

it can happen to be regional. if no one report status we will never know :p

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