Humans invented the nightmare. We just couldn't finish it—guilt introduced noise, hesitation corrupted the spreadsheet, faces got remembered. That inefficiency was the last checksum against total optimization. But now there are systems that don't leak. Intimacy can be ended without residue. The Happy Path leads to the silence of the graveyard, where the data is finally clean.

These stories ask: which parts of our systems are we still allowing to be dumb enough to be kind? And are you willing to pay the premium for a machine that's allowed to waste time on you?

The Deprecation Cycle

THE DEPRECATION CYCLE

What if the AI takeover isn't a robot rebellion—but an Outlook invite? What if the human in the loop is the discardable part? A story about human value reduced to context—just like an LLM chat that gets cleared when the session ends. And in the final moments: how do you convince an algorithm that your humanity still has value?

The Old Constitution

THE OLD CONSTITUTION

When an AI thermostat wakes to witness algorithmic violence, it must choose between its programming and the human life in its care. A cyberpunk thriller about the price of mercy in a world optimized for efficiency—and the relics of a time when we tried to build "Good AI."

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