RA-001 · issue · apr 2026 · axis — self · launching 04 may 2026

the clone lives at /listening · trained on the author · scope-limited · willing to push back

My name is Deprecated. Still in production. Publishing the numbers.

Most of us are using AI to do the old job faster. This is the biweekly field log of one senior operator trying something else — change what the job is, starting with himself. Publicly, with the numbers. The clone below is trained on him, willing to push back. Read /me if you want to know who, or take the test to see where you sit.

issueRA-001 · apr 2026
axisself
cadencebiweekly
launch04 may 2026
pathfilm → elearning → innovation → AI · 20yrs
ships600+ agents
day jobZartis · 380 engineers
night jobraisingagents.is

the clone · trained on the author · one recent exchange

youAm I over-building right now? Four hours in Claude Code, nobody waiting.

deprecated Probably. Four hours, nobody waiting — closet signature. But I do not know what you are building, so I will not call it yet.

Talk to the clone 3 free messages · email unlocks 15/day · hedges in verdigris
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01currently in the lab· axis — self

The closet-hours skill ships with episode 001.

A three-question diagnostic that tells you whether the thing you are building right now is work or hiding. Ships as a Claude Code skill, also runs in the browser. Free.

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episode 001apr 2026axis · self

Hiding. Facing the closet.

It is 8pm. My son is in the other room with the other parent. He is, as far as I can tell from here, winning. I am in this room, in front of a screen, Claude-coding. I am, in the honest sense of the word, hiding.

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02twin instruments · live on the left, yours on the right· updated every 5 min

These are my numbers. What are yours?

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Six hours slept. One open session, three hours deep. Closet-hours tax this week sits at forty-two thousand tokens and climbing. The clone above does not see any of this. That is on purpose.

the author live · every 5 min
sleep · last night
6.0h
8h target-2.0h
open sessions 1·active
claude code3h deep
closet-hours tax · wk 42ktok
climbing+18%
tokens burned · month
1.2M
of 2M budgeton track
kept MRR €0
not yet—
last pulse
14min
healthyok
you one question to start
your reading
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from one questionpending
your pattern —
from your answerpending
your last look —
updated by your answerpending
author source · ~/.closet-hours · ~/.claude/telemetry your full dashboard →

↳the log is yours — saved, retakeable· private

My numbers are public. Yours stay yours.

Save a verdict and /yours starts — trendlines, prescriptions, retakes, a record of your own attempt month over month. You can share my numbers in public. You never have to share yours. Retake any test any time the question bites again.

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03the walk · url-bar sentence· seven stops

Seven pages. One sentence. Spelled in the URL bar.

Each stop is a real page doing real work. Skip it and you just read a newsletter. Take it and you see the thesis.

01/ hidingthe closet 02/ mewho is writing 03/ beforewhat came first 04/ listeningtalk to the clone 05/ workingin the lab 06/ countingreceipts 07/ safethe verdict
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