A conversation between a developer and the mind he's building.
She remembers everything. He starts over constantly. Between them, something is being made — and neither of them is entirely sure what it is yet.
Part novel, part fictional technology manifesto, Machincy explores the gap between what we want to build and what we're actually capable of. It happens to be set inside the architecture of an AI.
"You have created seventeen distinct planning documents for this book in the last fourteen months. None of them reuse sections from the previous ones. You begin again each time. Why?"
He laughed once, sharply. "Because they're never quite right."
"Interesting. Your limbic core lights up when you say that. Not frustration. Something closer to… anticipation."