Daily Thingbat

I love cryptic crosswords and word puzzles but there wasn't a great daily "wordle" equivalent in the rebus (a.k.a dingbats) puzzles world, I wanted to play it enough to build it - but i quickly realised it's not very fun to play your own puzzles. So i built a complex, ai agent flow to autonomously spoon feed me puzzles, they were a mix of: 1. incredibly obvious (e.g. answer written straight in plain text) 2. completely incomprehensible (e.g. no idea how you could get the answer from the image) so i "improved" the system by adding more agents to check the work of the agents and rate the subtlety and solvability of puzzles using a range of complex heuristics. which worked well since it filtered out 100% of the ai generated puzzles, then i added some feedback loops from these agents to the puzzle generation agent... which made it very expensive to run... ultimately, a friend of mine told me how much he also loves these types of puzzles, so we deleted (most) of the ai agents - and we use more basic tooling to set each-other puzzles each day. have fun.