Chapter 01 · Who wrote the rule

Meta-alphabet

In the brief edition: An AI system, a program, or a mix: telling which

What was read, and when

The exchange was recorded on 24 September 2026: one question in one turn, at the vendor's defaults, the reply printed whole. It was read the same day against the maker's page on the phone's autocorrect.
The phone's autocorrect: the maker's announcement of its 2023 system, dated 5 June 2023, read on 24 September 2026. It speaks for that system and the part it describes; an older phone is not covered.
The map: two posts dated 3 September 2020, one by the maker's partner lab on the arrival times and one by the maker on how its routes are chosen, both read on 24 September 2026. Neither says who wrote the rule that weighs the route's factors.
The publication the author runs: its own record of which steps are scripts and which are model calls, 19 September 2026.
Table 1.1: rows 1 and 3 from the makers' own pages, read on the dates shown; rows 2 and 4 are examples from a reader's own screen.

The sources are printed in the full edition, chapter by chapter, with the day each was read. This page prints the same list.