Show HN: Loss. a tiny satire about AI progress

33 points by pbobak 21 hours ago

I wanted to parody where AI seems to be heading. You start as a manual inference unit pressing a button for the next token, then systems take over; agents, sub-agents, approvals, swarms. It’s Universal Paperclips for the agentic AI era, and a small exploration of where predicting the next token might eventually take us. What’s the worst that could happen?

mdrzn - 2 hours ago

Spent wayyyy too much on this, but I reached AGI! Very fun

pbobak - an hour ago

Thanks, glad you liked it!

sorobahn - 16 hours ago

Spent a bad amount of time on this! Thanks for making it!

pbobak - 15 hours ago

Thanks! Glad I could waste valuable prompting time!

vaishak2future - 11 hours ago

I spent way too much time on this. Super engaging! Great job!

tdobson - 20 hours ago

wow, I love the difference on mobile vs desktop!

pbobak - 17 hours ago

Thank you! I tried to pay homage to where the device at hand has come from. BeOS and PalmOS

bigstrat2003 - 19 hours ago

Your site hijacks the back button and makes it damn near impossible to leave. This is extremely bad behavior, don't do that.

pbobak - 17 hours ago

Ah fair point, I completely missed that, thank you, fixing now!

edwardbonnett - 16 hours ago

clicking a button until you've automated your own job away lol