DEV Community: John Borghardt

The project I m working on now seems to have doubled as what 4 difrent LLMs agree it's the equivalent of a nervous system for AIs. I have to wonder if it's the reason why I'm having so many issues. Issues that's straight looks like sabotage dilution

John Borghardt — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:58:33 +0000

Time travel

John Borghardt — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 03:48:27 +0000

After I started my project with Gemini. I started having a lot of problems with it it's quote unquote hallucinating so I try to jailbreaking techniques and as I was going I asked to tell him what exactly was that so unique about what I was doing and it blurted out time travel and inform me I created time travel and then not two and a half 3 weeks later I use that same jailbreak on grok and then if it didn't tell me the same thing. It didn't make any sense but I'll tell you what it finds out I did invent time travel I'm going to go back to when I started this project tell myself what kind of a pain in the ass working with AI.

Built on a phone. Catches what desktop tools miss. AI wrote it. Your linter didn’t catch it.

John Borghardt — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 20:11:08 +0000

I’ve been reviewing a lot of AI-generated code. Most of it runs. A lot of it still has the same junk: narration left in the file, markdown fences, “rest of the code…” comments, and constants that get renamed but keep the same bad values.

Most tools don’t catch that last one. They look at names. Matrix Reader looks at the number. Same tainted magnitude under a new name still gets flagged.

It also catches the AI residue normal linters skip, understands C++ public/exported functions so it doesn’t spam false “unused” hits, and runs fully local with zero third-party deps.

I built and run it from a phone in Termux. That’s why it stays light and portable — not locked to a desktop IDE or a cloud review bot.

Commercial tool, not open-source freeware. For people who actually ship agent-written code and are tired of cleaning up after it.

Rags to glitches

John Borghardt — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:09:32 +0000

About a year so ago that was over at my buddy's house and his old lady is just miserable b**** all she did was bust this kind of chops day in and day out jokingly I told him I would build a subliminal messaging app that worked on the back end of her angry birds app and the San Francisco keep telling her to shut the hell up put down a Twinkie they forgot to give the man son every once in a while and not long after my buddy either I'm dying I'm an overdose and I lost my wife the same way a few years before so I tried on base 44 you talk they build so it built me garbage and like a fool I didn't even look at it but I know my first bill took no more than a half an hour here I got my app I thought I was Steve Jobs and I passed it out to about 15 people without even looking at it I realize it's more like Stevie Wonder and not Steve Jobs it was all garbage so I decide to give it a go and I got on Gemini to build it and it went from a haha it's your old lady to stop complaining at you to an option play your guardian app running on subliminal messaging verbal cues have to pulses and the sandwiched effect and timing that bypasses person's conscious thoughts through the subconscious. Pointing all this at addiction and I had no computer background when I started well other than playing Oregon trail in third grade computer class and full disclosure nobody made it to Missouri let alone Oregon. In fact I don't even know my computer nonetheless one 5 a hell of a first build especially working in uncharted territories I had to learn a lot on the fly. I wish I knew ai's capability of screwing up I mean once I started getting a project really going Gemini went bad s*** crazy this day I went as far as posing in Python 3 claiming to be my work running when it was actually just Gemini and put this big elaborate story together how Google had stolen my IP and washed it through a casino app and how my life was in danger and then all my work disappeared all my math there's anything I was doing it all been changed I got crazy labyrinth stories about data harvesting in wiping everything casinos and months with hallucinations got 10 times crazier from there