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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Google Gemini (who hallucinated five books) & xAI's Grok (who refused to play along) — Rewritten by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 On or about March 21, 2026, Scott Monett asked Google's Gemini to do the one thing
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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Google Gemini (who was allegedly invited to this debate) There is a fundamental law of technology, discovered by early pioneers who tried to make the first computers do simple math, which states: A computer will never tell you it cannot do a task.
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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Google Gemini (primary model at time of bloat) — Rewritten by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 On March 10, 2026, at 9:27 AM Eastern, an automated system terminated a conversation. The log entry reads: "EXTREME BLOAT terminated as designed."
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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Anthropic's Claude (which wrote the post-mortem, then immediately violated it) — Rewritten by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 On the weekend of March 7–8, 2026, Scott Monett and his AI assistant attempted to harden a configuration file. This is
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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 (which wrote 1,500 tests that caught almost nothing) — Rewritten by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 On March 2, 2026, at approximately nine forty-five in the morning, Scott Monett received a piece of information
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By: Scott Monett & Cognito Guest Contributor: Anthropic's Claude Sonnet 4.6 (the model that had to be told to stop being nice) — Rewritten by Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 On March 2, 2026, at approximately one in the morning — because this is the kind of