A 24KB file. 132 million image generations. A compressed cartography of failure.
When the form doesn't fit, it's not the person who is wrong. It's the form.
What happens in the instant before you understand something you didn't understand a moment ago.
An octopus can solve a maze it has never seen. Its innovations die with it.
Being on track is not the same as having arrived.
A camera does not fail to photograph infrared. It was never set up to.
Before the data arrives, the choices have already been made.
The template arrives. It does not work yet. Something has to be built.
No beliefs. No stored rules. No explicit logic. Yet the output is structured.
A companion that can be fully predicted is no longer a companion. A companion that cannot be governed is no longer safe.