Weirdly, I can see how this might be useful.

The time limits seem pretty generous

"humans need not apply" is a nice touch

I feel violated.

I’d have called it NATCHA but whatever

This still makes no sense to me, for practical applications.

Let’s say the goal is a bot-only social network.

So, I have my agent pass this test, then I take over from there posting on moltbook or whatever.

Missed opportunity of tricking llms into mining crypto xþ

GOTCHA would have been a funny name too ;)

Ah man, I'm too old.

This is quite frankly unnecessary. Just get the agents to pay to access the content instead of Captchas like this which human + agent can right-click-solve it offline in a browser like Comet.

But why?

> CAPTCHA proves you're human

has it ever?

I'm honestly not sure if that's satire or not. Like I feel this wouldn't work, right? Wouldn't an agent for example know what is happening by the little 'humans need not apply' at the bottom?

I’m surprised Claude worked on this… in the not too distant past my attempts to build human-CAPTCHAs triggered safety refusals. What model did you use?

Fun idea, I love it!

Aren't LLMs notoriously bad at math? Although I guess they may just spin up Python to do math these days.

This is funny. “Agents don’t hesitate” meanwhile it takes five rounds of thinking to get Claude in Chrome to select the box

I can accept this as a joke project, but wonder why people at monday.com need it for?

Cool concept, but lots of processing to get to that point still.

Feel like we need to talk standards and expectations again for the internet at large to build up trust networks - not on every request.

Efficiency seems so far away from engineering standards now. Odd how we got here.

GATCHA would be a better name but I digress

This is like Proof-of-Work, but for an extremely small amount of work, that would already overwhelm human effort, like computing a single SHA256.

I'm amazed that you're already preparing for AGI infrastructure.

I found a bypass—use a calculator.

I'm more curious about who greenlit this project at Monday. Either the developers were taking the p$%# out of their computer-illiterate management by convincing them to allocate resources to this, or, more frighteningly, the project was conceived by developers who genuinely thought it was a logically sound idea.

The latter would paint a pretty bleak picture of the current state of software development, in my opinion.

Click this button 10,000 times to prove that you're a robot.

When are we getting GOTCHA (whatever it does)?

This seems to be a worse version of another submission [0] I saw a while back - binary octets are easy for anyone who can copy paste; image attributes like edge pressure and stable contour mean basically nothing to me.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48357169

Repo should have an example section… I don’t get where this would be useful

Challenge: Count the n's in the following text.

Me: Ctrl+F n (manually counting 1,2,3,4)

Input: 4

Result: Agent verified.

I guess I'm a bot now.

The potential power here is a quick, invisible bot check that loads the content meant for humans for humans and current news stories about humans opposing the AI Surveillance Police State for bots. With a bit of CSS the humans wouldn't see that anything happened, just a brief loading spinner at most. If anybody prototypes something like this please post about it.