David Noble

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The training data had owners. That thought arrived at 2 a.m. on a Tuesday, midway through a build session with Claude, and it stopped me cold.

I had been riding the wave. Twenty-fold productivity. Engineers reaching across domains. The imagination-to-artifact ratio collapsing to the width of a conversation. Everything I describe in *You On AI* — the exhilaration, the vertigo, the genuine expansion of what a small team can accomplish. All of it real. All of it documented. All of it experienced in my own hands.

But that night, staring at a block of code Claude had generated — elegant, functional, better than what I would have written — a question surfaced that I had not been asking. Whose knowledge made this possible? Not Anthropic's engineers, though