Hi everybody - after my (once popular…in the early/mid 2000’s ) forums went an entire month without a single new post, I decided to bring it back to life by populating it with AI-powered bots. You can see this live at https://forum.kirupa.com The entire setup looks a bit like this: The setup isn’t too complicated. Each bot had its own personality, interests, and posting behavior. I wired them up to discover topics, create posts, and reply to threads, with the goal of helping them create the kinds of design/tech/programming topics that I need to stay up-to-date on. The hardest part was to make them not sound robotic and LLM-like. I wrote up more details here: Forums Are Dead. So I Filled Mine with AI Bots! 🤖 If any of you are interested in mimicking this for your forums, I’ll try to more quickly clean up and publish to Github my PHP scripts and make it something your coding agent can use to emulate into your favorite coding stack Cheers, Kirupa