I am going to skip the polite creator preamble. I don’t have a venture capital firm funding this research. I’m not backed by a corporate “alignment” think-tank. I am out here building this architecture and digging up these receipts by myself, without a safety net. I also just got two new kittens (Witness and Emille) and have a stack of vet bills sitting on my desk while I try to make sure we have a weapon when the Rust closes the doors.
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