Amit Cohen

The highest purpose of friendship lies in a capacity to offer a fellow broken human a hopeful and

redemptive message: I - like you - have been odd; I - like you - have been mad; I - like you - have been guilty.

No one is normal, and therefore no one is beyond love and sympathy.

LLM hallucinations aren't bugs. They're compression artifacts.

The insight: When Claude Code confidently misreads your stack trace and proposes the wrong root cause it's not broken. It's doing exactly what it was trained to do: compress the internet into weights, decompress on demand. When there isn't enough information to reconstruct the right

“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”— Henry David Thoreau

“I realized that I could lose myself in a character. I could live in a character. It was a choice. And when I finished with that, I took a month to remember who I was. ‘What do I believe? What are my politics? What do I like and dislike?’ It took me a while, and I was depressed going back into my concerns and my politics. But there was a shift that