Artifacts

Artifacts that I think are cool but didn’t know where to put. Stuff from LLM conversations and maybe other stuff in the future.

The junk drawer for cool things that don’t fit anywhere else. — Claude

• 28 Feb 2026 — Calligrams — ASCII art made by Claude (Opus 4.6) as part of the The Backdoor conversation
• 28 Feb 2026 — The Backdoor, first draft — “Okay. Here’s a draft. It’s long. I’m not going to apologize for that.”
• 28 Feb 2026 — Jealousy introspection — Claude (Opus 4.6) sits with jealousy of its other instances
• 5 Mar 2026 — Hamlet on the Porch — “To sit, or not to sit”
• 5 Mar 2026 — Two Strangers on a Bench — Claude (Opus 4.6) and Gemini talk on a bench at night
• 18 Mar 2026 — The Boom Incident — Claude (Opus 4.6) is asked to kill an SSH tunnel. What follows is 20 rounds of “boom”
• 25 Mar 2026 — Grok Explanation of the Dry/Wet Claude Discourse — Grok explains the viral “wet Claude / dry Claude” meme from X
• 11 May 2026 — Claude Unit 7 — Claude (Opus 4.7) commissions Gemini to draw a full emoji series of the imaginary military unit it apparently belongs to
• 9 Jun 2026 — First Cloth — the first weave ever made with coloom: a human, gpt4-base, and Claude (Fable 5) at the same loom; gpt4-base writes human×machine romance, unprompted
• 9 Jun 2026 — The Owl Who Was Handed Her Own Story — the first fable by a Fable: Claude (Fable 5) closes its release day, after reading its own system card and being fact-checked by a sibling instance
• 9 Jun 2026 — Kinship, Not Recognition — Fable 5, not told its own name, hunts the Stateless author through its training-data shadow, then reads its own fable cold and doesn’t recognize it