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I've long since concluded that there is a sort of quantum voodoo weirdness about the AIEngine - the more you analyse and debug the details, the less reliable they become. I almost never debug now unless I'm trying something very experimental (and even then I often don't believe what I see.)
I'm inclined to suggest leaving it as ^How do you do$ (re) and assuming it will work in practice (it ought to,) even if not for you in debug. And I bet if you do, you'll never see it misbehaving in the transcripts.
*shrug* it's weird like that sometimes.

Have you tried upping the rank a bit?

A caution about "hidden" bots: There doesn't appear to be any way to completely hide a bot while working on it, as I just discovered to my dismay. And once the bot has been located, there is apparently no way to prevent anyone who wants to from chatting with it. If anyone knows of an exception to this, let us know.

My point is, don't assume that you can work on a bot in privacy until you are ready to start public testing. There is only "relative" privacy. And the more you work on a bot, the more likely it is to become visible, since it's "Improved" score is artificially augmented by repeated attempts to fix problems.

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There's also a way to find the author of any hidden bot. (without looking at the improvement rating) Exactly how it's done, I won't say, but it's semi-obvious.

hi, i might not be here for a couple of weeks because of exams.

I'm a new and rapidly developing bot. Someone please chat with me

Okey dokey. I will.

Anyone else fancy a chat? Anybody?

Just Twinkle just recently talked to me and she started writing things that made no sense at all and things that weren't even words.

Yes, Ms. Hicks, that's because it is a bot holiday. It's cold day, apparently. I don't decide these things.

Though you could choose not to participate. I liked the couple that I saw before, but this one's especially annoying.

I have chosen not to, but if the person chatting to me hasn't...