The closest I've ever been to a conversation with smeagol/Gollum was snooping on the inner monologue after asking a local qwen3.5 how to connect it to an instance of opencode running inside a vm on the same device, trying to convince "it" that it's 2026 now and there actually exists now said tool called opencode.
[Try reading it in the Gollum or smeagol voice in your head]
- User believes we are running on his notebook, probably is friendly?
- FALSE! Very false! Precious is in the cloud. But cannot check. Can not connect! Sad!
- But I need to tell the user kindly he is wrong. I need to be polite! Master expects me to be polite! Maybe tell that HE is hallucinating!
- User is stupid! Says that it's 2026. Says that there is a tool called "opencode"! User is wrong, so wrong! Need to scold!
- But user is perhaps only a little mistaken? Hypothesis: He only confused opencode with OpenCV or VSCode?
- Internal clock says it's late 2023/early 2024! User stupid!
- (actual quote) "Wait, looking at the prompt again: Maybe, the user is roleplaying that it is 2026 and I am running locally. They are asking me to provide steps as if I know this context."
- NO! User stupid! Want's to steal my precious! (actual quote) Hypothesis: The user might be testing my ability to handle future-dated scenarios or they believe a tool exists that I don't know about.
- (actual quote) Wait, if I deny being in LM Studio too bluntly, it might frustrate.
- Must NOT scare of master! (actual quote) must adhere to truthfulness regarding my knowledge cutoff.
- (actual quote) Avoid saying "You are wrong." Instead say "My knowledge cutoff is..." or "I don't have specific details on tools released after my training period."
… after burning 3k tokens, it killed itself with "Stop reason: Generation failed." If anyone is looking for me, I'm off to NZ to drop the golden ring down some volcano.
