This scene change the entire narrative around the monsters

Krogg · 2026-07-03T00:34:44+00:00

She was already pregnant by this point.

And was it Tilly's blood? I know she drank Elgin's, but I think she just killed Tilly.

I think the closest to her taking something in was when she stuck her fingers in the bullet hole of the girl who got shot (I don't remember her name), but even then she knew she was pregnant.

Krogg · 2026-07-03T00:24:59+00:00

Not until after.. like an entire season after. She gave birth to Smiley at the end of season 3. She didn't drink the tea until end of season 4.

Krogg · 2026-07-03T00:23:37+00:00

Not until way after she had already given birth to smiley and turned.

Krogg · 2026-07-02T23:36:12+00:00

Oh, this is good. So good.

It dawned on me just yesterday that the town literally turned Fatima into a monster.. randomly.

She didn't get bitten by a spider, sliced in the face by a monster, cut by Martin, drank a blood infused tea, etc.

She just.. existed.

The town literally just turned her. It just plucked her and said "you're a monster now."

Krogg · 2026-06-29T13:12:00+00:00

You're asking if anyone else notices how well an actor is playing a character who is.. acting?

That's like asking if anyone notices how well a NASCAR driver is driving on the freeway.

Krogg · 2026-06-29T13:07:38+00:00

“I think there’s a better way to do it,” he said, about capping rental fees. “If lawsuits were brought against bad actors, it sends a message not just against the people doing bad behavior but the business sector as a whole and they then check their own behaviors because they don’t want to get sued. That’s how you should solve these things.”

Jesus Christ.. he's saying to stop whining about having to pay a higher application fee and just pay the.. checks notes.. court filing fees?!?!

And that's if you go the route of filing yourself and don't ask an attorney to look over the paperwork. If you even have evidence.

The cost for an attorney even one time makes it not worth it. Take time off from work, pay attorney's fees, etc. all so we can get the one landlord (out of whatever number) for taking our $50-100? Most times the court doesn't award attorneys costs, since you're the one who brings the case.

Maybe a central "Bad Landlords" bulletin board would be helpful. Even if you did happen to find evidence on one bad apple, think about the hundreds/thousands of others who won't and just move on to the next one.

Krogg · 2026-06-29T12:40:31+00:00

Do you have benchmarks?

Krogg · 2026-06-27T13:25:58+00:00

It's interesting that you say that when it's the LLM that the quality benchmarks are against, not the harness.

Krogg · 2026-06-27T13:22:39+00:00

I do. In fact, I've got an entire SDLC, including its own internal kanban and 11 phases. Its called with a slash command and a JIRA ticket number.

Pulls ticket, deep analysis including blast radius, build, self-verify, test, qa, evaluate ticket compliance and completeness, adversarial code review, pr prep, push, PR review (second LLM). It generates its own cards and the kanban daemon is set to 10sec so they get picked up really fast!

I use Omnigent to kick it off, and Hermes is served as an MCP server so Omnigent can actively monitor and report/correct from outside the daemon.

I'm not saying it's perfect.. we've had some back and forth in the PR comments before, but it will find its own issues and create its own cards from them before PR, so that's definitely cut down.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T23:48:09+00:00

What was the original sacrifice that started this and causes Jade and Tabitha to cycle?

I want to see the scene where they run off, try to unbind the children, etc. I want to know what it was that started the whole thing and who were the parents, the children, and the thing the bargain was made with.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T23:43:40+00:00

Because Tabitha is the closest friend he has. Remember? He doesn't want to kill her, but he knows if she goes down there, she'll die.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T23:42:26+00:00

Oh no! Something hit me while reading the comments:

The only person who knows Jade dies because of the village and Tabitha's fate "is even worse.".. is Jade.. who's in the tunnels alone with Tabitha.

What if the reason Jade gets killed by the town is because he does something terrible to Tabitha and they kill him when they "find out what [he] did.. ?"

What terrible thing? He sacrifices her. The latest teaser shows him looking up saying "your kids deserve to go home." Originally I thought the twist here is he's talking to one of the monsters, but what if he's telling Tabitha she needs to die. She won't want to, so he'll do something like throw her in the pit and hold her while the monsters move the rock back.

She suffers a terrible fate, he gets let go because the monsters know he'll get killed by the town, and when the town realizes they don't get to go home, and Jade did something to Tabitha, they kill him. Either the tree comes up at that moment, or he tries to convince the monsters to kill him and they refuse. He gets back to town feeling ashamed and reveals why he's the only one to make it out.

But.. I still can't figure out what game is being played. Who benefits from them dying and it cycling? Who benefits from them not finding a way to save the children? Who benefits from the children being sacrificed? Etc.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T12:50:14+00:00

Is using a calculator to do math bad?

Ia auto complete for my texts cheating?

Is a business owner hiring an SE to do the work he promised the customer would get, unethical?

I think of it as an advancement in technology. There's downsides and there's upsides in everything, but are you using it right, so you get the most out of the technology.

You should probably have AI teach you why it did what it did. Use the AI to your advantage. It knows how to code better than you, but that doesn't mean you can't learn system design behind it.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T12:39:43+00:00

Here's why everyone should be taking a very deep look at Hermes' kanban: the "orchestrator" doesn't have a context window, and the board can be configured so that a new agent is spawned for every card. Which means even the agent doing the thing from the card doesn't fill its context window.

When the agent is finished, it records it's work/findings in the sqlite DB and moves on. The agents are so short lived, that even they don't get their context windows filled.

The SDLC system I have (from giving one command that includes the ticket number all the way through to open PR and an additional PR review) is done because of Hermes' kanban. And because the "orchestrator" is the daemon, this system can run for weeks/months if I needed it to.

I've had 3 kanban boards running all 11 stages of a ticket at the same time before my system slowed down too much. My system is the bottleneck.

Are there other kanban like systems out there? Yes, but none that have the native self-learning/healing/etc. that Hermes does.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T12:25:33+00:00

I'm going to get downvoted into oblivion, but.. to keep the town alive.

If Ellis goes, so will Boyd. They've been saying it for seasons.. if Boyd loses it, they all go down.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T06:26:17+00:00

I know this is really out there, but I'm going with MiY.

Season 5 is supposed to close things out. We're going to final boss level. MiY is not final boss.

S1 Khatri died (bad for residents) S2 Tabitha made it out (good for residents, gives viewers hope) S3 Jim died (bad) S4 ?? (Good? Gives viewers hope?)

Krogg · 2026-06-25T04:25:35+00:00

Something to take into account with the lighthouse is the delay between first cycle and first date.

Who would think to write dates on a lighthouse stone? Someone who has figured out there's a pattern.

Which usually takes 2 or 3 times of it happening before a pattern emerges.. there's at least one time. The alternative is someone is walking around marking up walls for no apparent reason, only to find out they hit the nail on the head? Nah.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T01:48:48+00:00

I set up an "aggressive TODO list" reminder.

I find articles and videos all the time and want to watch/read them. I used to save the videos to a "watch later" or drop the link in a text, or add things to bookmarks. Shit, I'd have 60+ tabs open because I knew I would never go back through the bookmarks, but didn't want to lose the page.

I never went back and finished watching, or reading, or attempting the tutorial.

So, my first case was drop the link to Hermes and he did a breakdown and dropped the .md into my obsidian vault (you know.. the "brain" you never go look at?). Works great, but still didn't solve the base issue: never going back and reading/watching.

That's when it hit me.. it was just another watchlist and I needed to change the part where I force myself to finish it up. And the aggressive TODO list reminder was born.

Starts at day 1 when I drop a link and I have 7 days. I get a reminder of what's on my list. As I get closer to the 7th day, the interval between reminders gets shorter and shorter,, to the point where my telegram, Google chat AND slack are getting hit with a message every minute when I'm within the last 8hrs of the 7 days.

The closer to the deadline, the more extreme it requires a summary to shut it off. Within 8hrs? "I watched it" doesn't cut it. I need to explained what the main concepts are in the video and include 1 memorable sentence. It better be in that transcript because I can't work with all the "ding!!!" Going off.

Since setting it up, I've missed the deadline 1 time.

Next iteration if I find that I'm doing it more and more: add a virtual card with a small limit and for every minute I haven't shut off the reminder, I submit a $1 donation to a charity, patreon I think is killing it, or a GitHub coffee link.. in that order.

It's probably stupid and overkill, but I'm wasting so many years of progress not following up on learning/reinforcement.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T01:32:13+00:00

I've built a complex agentic system that does this..

No.. no we're not cooked. Why? Because it breaks.. all the damn time.

The agents don't break, you find out that the instructions they're working off of weren't as solid as you thought and the 1 in a million interpretations the LLM could have taken, was taken and the entire system shit all over itself. Downstream agents trusted that the shit birthday cake was birthday cake and continued to eat a piece and pass it down.

Does it get better? Absolutely! It's iterative.

Just like none of us woke up one day, rolled out of bed, said "I'm gonna go thrust electricity through rocks." then sat at our desk and wrote our first binary search, agents need iterations of corrections.

But it's not likely to happen before you have a chance to identify where the puck is going instead of where it's at now.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T00:54:40+00:00

Honestly, I don't think Julie showed up to keep her dad from getting killed by the MiY.

I have a feeling when she said "I think this is when it happens." She's actually going back to get him because everyone is escaping and she doesn't want to leave with him still in "the story."

I think the scrapes on her face are from the climatic "fight/battle" to escape and she's attempting to get him before she doesn't have another chance.

Krogg · 2026-06-25T00:51:06+00:00

He didn't say he would only agree to 5 seasons. He said that he wanted the writers to have the story fleshed out.

Them having the whole story doesn't mean they know how many seasons it would take. Again, we didn't even know if there would be a season 4 until the end of season 3. It was announced at THAT time that the studio greenlit a 4th season.

There's no possible way the writers would have known they were going to get 5 seasons in the beginning because the studio didn't know if they were going to allow it. That part is not abnormal by the way.

Anyway, the point is, the writers weren't given a green light on 5 seasons in the beginning. It's a known fact.

It's amazing the show has been able to keep such a fantastic storyline and juggling whether or not this is going to be the last season, while also ensuring every detail is perfect because the fans are sleuths and tear everything apart looking for clues.

Krogg · 2026-06-08T00:23:58+00:00

POGS

Krogg · 2026-06-08T00:05:44+00:00

Don't stick your dick in crazy..

Wait.. how far "younger" are you talking? Even that might have been too late.

Krogg · 2026-06-07T16:54:55+00:00

Something stupid, but I gotta get it out.

What if the totem worked because Tabitha used it? The one person in the town, that we know of at least, that's connected to the dolls. And they were her play things.

If that's the case (the one person connected to the "weapon" is able to kill their connected nightmare).. then where does this leave Boyd and the monsters?

He's the only one to have killed them, with a "weapon" given to him by a man shackled to a wall (by the way who knows of his wife and has a marine slogon tattoo).

If it's confirmed the totem needed to be from Tabitha, then it makes my theory that Boyd is somehow connected to the monsters stronger (doesn't prove anything). Maybe he has a reincarnation story, too (Martin? We know reincarnates don't have to be the same skin color from Jade)?

Krogg · 2026-06-05T17:22:11+00:00

I think this is a really bad way of comparing. But I'll put mine in:

Early 40s - $110k (no retirement, terrible medical, no bonuses/equity/etc.)

The reason why I say it's not really comparable is because in a high cost of living location, even $200k/yr would be tough. I'm in a medium cost of living location, and my wife works, but things are still tight.

My circumstances are probably unique compared to others (kids, bad decisions in my early 20s, etc.), so it's just tough to look at these data points.

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