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> The Guy Who Peaked in 1991

This had me.

Some numbers, 40 minutes in, since people usually want these and nobody posts them.257 obituaries written by 118 people. Zero generation failures. Total model spend: one dollar. One person has bought the $3.99 autopsy, which is a 0.4% conversion and roughly what I expected, though I'd have taken more.

The thing I did not expect: people write several. The average visitor buries two or three things, which was not the behavior I designed for.

One bug worth mentioning because it is the kind AI products ship silently. If it couldn't actually fetch a page it used to roast the URL string instead, and fluently invent an entire website that didn't exist. I found it this morning on a domain that doesn't resolve at all and it produced a confident obituary for it. It now refuses and says it couldn't read the page. You can see it decline in my logs today on a site that blocks cloud IPs.

I actually have the opposite experience, often getting into protracted arguments with the tools I use.
> We could not read theyfell.com. It blocked us, or it needs JavaScript to show anything. Copy the words off the page and paste those instead, and we will bury those.

Where's the obituary for this?