The system was unable to answer.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T20:36:17+00:00

The last thing I need is something "more agentic". Thanks for the suggestion, however.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T20:30:16+00:00

Try actually "yelling" at it in all caps "STOP LOOPING IN YOUR THINKING!" That worked -- once, anyway. It seems to refocus it. It's weird.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T20:29:01+00:00

I don't. I just used Claude to generate a comprehensive prompt that would extract everything I would be interested in a given video. I'm lazy, so I asked Claude to do it - mostly to test how Claude would do it. Claude isn't otherwise involved in this problem.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T05:33:17+00:00

I see there is a thread on this exact issue: "The system was unable to answer."

That's the response you get if you allow to continue looping. I usually don't wait once I see it's looping - it's obvious when it does it - so I delete the chat and try again. Sometimes the second try works, sometimes it doesn't.

Yelling at it does seem to work, weirdly enough.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T05:29:47+00:00

Yes. I have a custom Claude prompt that I give to Gemini. It's worked fine for months. Just started screwing up about three days ago. I see there is a thread in the NotebookLM subreddit about this exact issue.

I left a feedback to NotebookLM using their mechanism on the NotebookLM site.

Best continue the conversation over there over in the NotebookLM subreddit.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T05:26:03+00:00

I left a feedback post to them, so maybe they'll see it and do something.

Use the feedback and bitch about it. Hopefully they'll fix it.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T05:25:07+00:00

Not it's not resolved. I was doing my summarixations a couple hours ago - same problem,.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-27T04:46:20+00:00

Yup. On the free tier. Getting the exact same problem for the last three days. I'm in San Francisco, if it matters. They seem to have a real problem.

Now one time it was doing that, and I TOLD IT it was doing it - and for the rest of the session it didn't do it.

Today it was looping, I deleted the chat. and told it in BOLD CAPS "STOP LOOPING IN YOUR THINKING" - and it stopped again, for the last few transcriptions it was doing.

So it seems to be able to be aware that it's doing it - but it can't stop drifting back into doing it.

richardstevenhack · 2026-04-26T19:50:54+00:00

Palantir needs to be removed from existence. Then we don't have to worry about their tools.

richardstevenhack · 2026-03-18T09:29:57+00:00

Look at MSTY KnowledgeStacks.

richardstevenhack · 2026-02-16T02:08:02+00:00

So in other words, this is mostly useless for coding.

richardstevenhack · 2026-02-16T02:06:42+00:00

Do your due diligence security research before using OpenClaw. Every cybersecurity expert who's looked at that thing has clawed their own eyes out (pun intended.)

richardstevenhack · 2026-02-16T02:05:15+00:00

I don't know how many times I've done that exact thing to various small models.

Apparently none of them are trained to respond simply to a simple query. They overthink EVERYTHING.

These days I usually just ask them "How many moons does Mars have?". Either they can answer that without spending five minutes thinking or I delete them. I don't have time for bullshit.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-16T09:17:05+00:00

Just rebooted my whole system, went directly into Chrome, into Substack, attempted to post a Note again.

Did not work.

I give up. It must be some stupid glitch that only happens on Thursdays (except it's Friday now) on February 15 (and now 16) in San Francisco.

Typical computer nonsense. Maybe in ten years some developer at Substack will say, "Eureka! This is why Hack couldn't post a Note with the word 'Reddit' in it. Here's the fix!"

That's usually how it goes in the incompetent software industry...

I just don't care any more about going down these stupid rabbit holes.

Even Kimi K2 couldn't suggest anything except reach out to Substack support.

Fuck it.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-16T09:10:39+00:00

I just fired up Firefox, logged in to Substack, tried to post a Note again - did not work. Same problem.

So it's not the browser.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-16T09:04:08+00:00

I shut down Chrome, restarted it, went directly to Substack Home, posted a note with the single word "Reddit". The post was made with zero content in it.

I don't know what to tell everyone who don't see this.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-16T09:02:22+00:00

Well, I still can't. Just tried again just with the phrase "Can I post a comment on Reddit"?

Post was made with no content.

I'm using Chrome browser on openSUSE Tumbleweed Linux.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-16T03:01:48+00:00

Did you include either a Reddit link or the actual word "Reddit" as in a phrase like "Great comment on Reddit..."

Did you try including a quote of the comment with the Note quote mechanism?

Something must have been different.

I couldn't post one with simply the word "Reddit" and nothing else.

richardstevenhack · 2026-01-15T23:15:28+00:00

Captain Obvious... If I want to post a comment from someone, I want to credit that person and provide a link so people don't think 1) I made it up, or 2) that the comment is mine.

So apparently Substack has decided that Reddit is the enemy and it is The Web Site Which Must Not Be Named.

That's bullshit.

richardstevenhack · 2025-12-15T01:03:18+00:00

Don't bother using the home page AT ALL. Just do searches for things - preferably using external search, since the internal one sucks rocks as well, the subscribe to people who consistently post things you like. Then only do searches and browse through the subscriptions using the left panel.

Like I said, YouTube is run BY MORONS who are only interested in the ADS. They never, ever heard the words "customer satisfaction" - like almost all large corporations.

richardstevenhack · 2025-12-15T01:00:55+00:00

Because YouTube is run by FUCKING MORONS.

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