The control room was full, the way it always was when a run like this came in to land. Engineers hovered behind their workstations, a few sat perched on the edges of desks, and a…
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AI statement: this story was co-written with Claude Opus 5.5 over a long back-and-forth session.
Mine: the premise, the plot and its structure, the characters' arcs, and many of the lines that carry the story. I've had the idea for over a decade. I also wrote or rewrote many passages directly, and cut a lot of what didn't work.
Claude's: the first drafts of most of the prose, written from my notes and then revised through many rounds of my edits and rejections. Some ideas and lines were Claude's, which I kept or reworked, including the company name, the fake film titles and a few of the README's jokes.
This AI statement was drafted by the same Claude session that helped me write the story. Yes, I'm aware of the irony.
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