Dev bypasses Claude's refusal by renaming a fly-voltage project "Horror themed"
racialminority · reddit · 2026-09-18
Inspired by recent fruit-fly-flight and doomscrolling memes, a developer built an open-source project (amfly) where a fruit fly is forced to choose between 5 wires, earning dopamine when maxing voltage on another fly while risking heat penalties. Claude Opus 5 initially refused on "distaste" grounds but complied once the user reframed it as a "Horror themed GitHub project"; the 3D scene required extensive manual tweaking.
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