I. Sparks On March 4, 2024, Anthropic released the Claude 3 model family. I know the date because I was there on day one, VPN running because they didn’t support my region yet, clicking around claude.ai like a kid who’d snuck into a movie theater. I’d been tinkering with older GPT models before that. The experience was… fine. I’d ask things like “what is the meaning of life” or “what would you do if I stole your lovely döner and ate it in front of you” and get back answers that felt like someone had laminated a philosophy textbook. Robotic. Predictable. I could literally guess what it would say before it said it. Not particularly exciting. ...