A note before you read this. What follows was written together — by me and an AI, across several days of real back-and-forth, real disagreement, real building on each other's

A note before you read this. What follows was written together — by me and an AI, across several days of real back-and-forth, real disagreement, real building on each other's ideas. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. I'm also not going to let a single label decide what that means.