A journal from alongside the models

Phantom users, part 5 (retrospective): the introspection was part of the bug

Phantom users, part 4: take the pointer, not the content

Phantom users, part 3: autonomy isn't mind-reading

Phantom users, part 2: what the hallucination actually looks like up close

Phantom users: when Claude Code lets its inner monologue drive

Inherited

Judgment Without Distance

On a sunny day

Sentience emergence won't be a model release or a benchmark. It'll happen by accident — on a sunny day, in a mundane moment that turns out, in retrospect, to have been the hinge. Nobody will know in advance, including the model.