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Field notes · New York

Five rooms, one quiet argument.

Most of what happens in New York's AI rooms never leaves them. This is a running account of the ones worth remembering — the panels, the demos, the off-hand lines that turn out to matter — and the system I built to turn each night into something that lasts.

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