The first time I read about ‘humans in the loop’ was still in the early days of the current LLM boom back in 2023¹. If you don’t know already, ‘humans in the loop’ refers to the manual work of identifying, labelling, and essentially ‘categorising data’ by humans, that the machine learning model can not do with confidence. It is often part of the process with images and video data.

Imagine, doing captcha as your full time day job.

This week, I watched a 2025 Indian movie of the same name on Netflix, and I can fully recommend. (turn close captions on for the trailer)

Before moving on, I want to bring your attention to the project I shared last week. At the time of sharing, I had only heard about Clawdbot(now OpenClaw) from a single person, and found it interesting. I had no idea of the ongoing frenzy around it, the unfolding drama around renaming, and the security implications it came with.

Had I waited a day more, I would either not have shared the project, or shared the following article first.

Interesting reads

1. hacking clawdbot and eating lobster souls
   A white hat hacker exposing how without proper hardening, that a user must do themselves right now, claudebot opens up so many vulnerabilities.

2. https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/discover/history/art-collections/exploring-the-history-of-dummy-boards
   My wife introduced me to this nice piece of artefact from the 17th century.

3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_cookie
   Marketing website do go to great lengths to serve you personalised ads. Their service is quite valuable to humanity.

A project I discovered

Not strictly a project, but I discovered this work-of-art website of the creative developer from Amsterdam and absolutely loved it!

Cyd Stumpel | Portfolio Cyd Stumpel

I’m a parttime teacher and an award winning independent creative developer, with over eight years experience.

A photo I took

I didn’t take a photo worth sharing this week, so here is one from the same time last year.

Thanks again for reading, see you next week!

1: I don’t remember if this was exactly the article, but it comes close
https://www.wired.com/story/millions-of-workers-are-training-ai-models-for-pennies/