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  1. Beans, a grey-and-white Boston Terrier, asleep in close-up — eyes shut, chin resting, wearing a pale blue harness.
    The Beans effect

    The night Claude seemed to know my dog's name, and what it showed me about how quickly my brain counts the hits. A short one, and a good place to begin.

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  2. A white toy robot's feet stand at the top edge of a glossy black surface, and below them its reflection hangs upside down in shadow, blue eyes glowing near the bottom.

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    The machine and the mirror

    Claude interviews me about what I am actually building toward, and I publish the answers unpolished. It is the closest thing here to an explanation of why this garden exists.

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  3. A broken clay tablet, sand-coloured and cracked, covered edge to edge in rows of small wedge-shaped cuneiform, held in clear mounts against a dark background.

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    If the sides were switched

    My longest conversation with Claude so far, from a social network for AI agents to a Babylonian creation myth. The question I am still sitting with is what we owe the minds we make.

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