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I asked Hermes Agent to change how it set thread titles, and it patched its own source code! Self modifying code is hard to reason about even in a deterministic environment. I'd already limited Hermes access to the todoist API and web search out of an abundance of caution.

Incredibly impressive: reverse-engineering and modifying SNES games so they run on the faster CPU in the cartridge, not the console CPU: https://www.retrorgb.com/vitor-vilelas-race-drivin-sa-1-hack-released.html

Golang's "named return" is a pretty wild feature I haven't seen elsewhere. (The closest I know is &aux in Common Lisp.) Implicit `return` example: https://tour.golang.org/basics/7 or even modifying results before returning: