Lisa Gitelman

Foreword

By Edo Segal

The thing I should have noticed first was the format.

Not the technology. Not what Claude could do or how fast it could do it. The format. The fact that I poured a conversational, iterative, genuinely strange production process into the shape of a printed book and never once asked whether the shape was distorting the thing I was trying to say.

I described the collaboration honestly. I disclosed Claude's role in the Foreword, dedicated a chapter to the writing process, included Claude's own reflections unedited. I thought I was being transparent. I was. But transparency about the contents does not help you if the container itself is doing the hiding.

The linear chapter structure implied I wrote this book the way books get written — one