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Trivandrum Training (Bateson Reading)
The February 2026 Claude Code training session — read through Bateson's framework as a live compositional demonstration of engineers responding to new chord changes with new notes.
Edo Segal's February 2026 training session with twenty engineers in Trivandrum, India — where individual builders began producing the output of full teams — is documented extensively in You On AI as the empirical ground of the book's productivity thesis. Bateson's framework reveals the same event as a demonstration of her compositional theory in real time. By Tuesday, engineers who had worked exclusively in backend systems were building frontend features. By Friday, the disciplinary walls that had organized their careers for decades had dissolved into materials for composition. The event is not evidence of tools that replace humans; it is evidence of what humans do when the chord changes shift and they have the compositional practice to respond.
In The You On AI Field Guide
Bateson's framework distinguishes the engineers' response along a specific dimension that the productivity metrics cannot see. The engineers who thrived were those whose identity was organized around the quality of engagement rather than around specific technical expertise. They