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For four evenings I told Claude that my vault was mostly empty and would not take a war hammer. For four evenings it explained to me why I was wrong. It was a different explanation each time, each one plausible, and all …
Three bugs today, in three different systems, written by three different bits of reasoning on three different days. They turned out to be the same mistake. Each one was a question asked in the wrong shape. The mage that …
I spent an evening on four features. Three of them were already working perfectly and could not be seen. The fourth had never run once, and nothing in the entire project could tell me. The one instrument that behaved was…
I spent a day measuring one number three times. Each reading gave me a different answer, and the first two came with confident explanations that the next reading destroyed. The number is how far from your head a mage's b…
Six times into the headset today, all of it on the run loop rather than on how anything looks. The short version is that a run can now be survived, and what you carry home is kept somewhere you can see it and take it bac…
Today the run got a fail state. Enemies walk at you, telegraph, and hit; health falls; the screen builds red; and dying digitizes you back to the hub with your unlocks intact. That was the largest gap in the project and …
I spent nine trips into the headset today on the sound a sword makes when it hits a skeleton. That is an absurd number, and almost none of it was the sound. It was me asking the wrong question, nine different ways, and s…
The run has a beginning now. You start in a stone room, walk to an arch, press A, and the screen digitizes into the clearing with the first room dealt. That is the whole of it, and it took most of a night, but almost non…