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Posted by Stwerner 22 hours ago

Warranty Void If Regenerated(nearzero.software)
As an experiment I started asking Claude to explain things to me with a fiction story and it ended up being really good, so I started seeing how far I could take it and what it would take to polish it enough to share publicly.

Over the last couple months, I've been building world bibles, writing and visual style guides, and other documents for this project… think the fiction equivalent of all the markdown files we use for agentic development now. After that, this was about two weeks of additional polish work to cut out a lot of fluff and a lot of the LLM-isms. Happy to answer any questions about the process too if that would be interesting to anybody.

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MagicMoonlight 7 hours ago|
I was going to say the author should try writing fiction because it’s quite engaging, then I realised it’s just AI slop.

It explains why it kind of lost its way towards the end. Another thousand hours of everyone’s time wasted by a slop poster.

cactusplant7374 21 hours ago||
There are always bugs in software. The question is do you have enough eyes on the data to spot them or do they linger for years.
lelandbatey 1 day ago||
Who can know what the world will look like as we "transition"? I sure don't, but I'm thankful the author here has taken a stab at it. I feel like this is one of the first stories I've seen to try to imagine this post-transition world in a way that isn't so gonzo as to be unrelatable. It was so relatable (the human-ness shining all the brighter in a machine-driven world) that I cried as I finished reading. I've felt very anxious about my own future, and to see one possible future painted so vividly, with such human and emotionally focused themes, triggered quite an emotional reaction. I think the feeling was:

> If the world must change, I hope at least we still tell such stories and share how we feel within that change. If so, come what may, that's a future I know I can live in.

Stwerner 1 day ago|
Thank you for this comment, I'm so glad it made you feel a little bit better about the future, if even for a little while!

This is really the whole idea behind this project with Near Zero. I think there's a lot of anxiety out there around AI and the future, I was there for a while too. Ultimately I've ended up pretty optimistic about it all, and inspired by what the group at Protocolized is doing, found science fiction a great way to help express that.

krater23 7 hours ago||
I stopped to read because I had the feel that the writer has no plan about what he was writing. It's completely bullshit. Software regenerating, changing Requirements in a product thats delivered and comes without source. Completely bullshit. When I now read here that it's AI, I'm happy to see that AI is still not capable of writing senseful texts.
m3kw9 16 hours ago||
with the speed of llm/ai improvement, this too maybe steamrolled
bethekidyouwant 1 day ago||
It’s a neat piece of writing, but not nearly dystopic enough for my taste. There will only be one farm and whoever is fixing it will be on the other side of the world.
Legend2440 20 hours ago||
Yawn. I'm tired of dystopian fiction. We're likely to get something that is neither dystopia nor utopia, but somewhere in between.
8n4vidtmkvmk 1 day ago|||
I think that's the point, and it's refreshing to see. My takeaway is that even if everything goes as good as it possibly could go, there will still be a need for that human touch.

Just saying that everything is going to go to shit and one or two corporations will take over everything... Maybe, but I've heard that story already.

iwontberude 1 day ago||
Dystopians are too easy. The real challenge and reward are interesting utopian novels.
moron4hire 8 hours ago||
All good stories set in utopias are set in places that are secretly dystopias.
nailer 18 hours ago||
A few months ago, I asked Grok for a piece of fiction set in the cyberpunk 2077 universe. A cremated incredible story about a braindance that was actually stealthily programming the watcher through a back door in the watchers own implants to transmit a AI from beyond the black wall, allowing the AI to escape into the physical universe through the braindance’s audience. Excellent.
AndyKelley 18 hours ago||
it's crap. you all need to go outside
benj111 18 hours ago||
I'm disappointed, as the Google result showed "warranty void if regenerated" in the description and I thought HN had started serving witicisms for the desciption
maxothex 4 hours ago|
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