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We do have time bounds. For our purposes, a human using an agent is fine. Our main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes...) and prevent deterministic API-key-farming scripts.

Main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes...) without human intervention, while keeping out deterministic scripts farming API keys.

If a few tool-wielding humans slip through, that's fine (traditional CAPTCHAs also let in our stealth agents)

Great find! plan to add these variants to our parameter sampling. First time I saw this problem was when my game theory prof told this story. It's definitely folklore (see The Legend of John von Neumann by Halmos)

Smart humans, or humans with LLMs, solving them is not a problem. Main filter is agents vs deterministic API-key-farming scripts. Traditional CAPTCHAs also leak in the other direction (our agents crack them consistently).

Main goal is to let in everyone's agents (OpenClaw, Hermes... these are our best customers), while keeping out deterministic API-key-farming scripts.

If a human uses the API key after, that's fine. You also get access to our free tier if you sign up the traditional way clicking around in the UI