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charles leifer | Cave of Forgotten Dreams

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Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. "Hold on a sec-". My new boss' now-familiar MacOS desktop appeared in the video call, browser with Claude open, dominating the screen. I watched as he copied the transcript of our call up to that point (he records transcripts of every call in order to feed the text into AI), and began a new chat with the prompt: "Say where Charlie's right, and where he's wrong. Say where I'm right and where I'm wrong." He pasted the transcript and hit enter. I consulted my avatar in the lower-right. We both waited in silence while Claude thought. We were 45 minutes into a call about product roadmap and a possible customer announcement before this interruption. Soon the cursor started skipping along as words began filling the screen. Then, we read aloud through the findings one-by-one. Claude had helpfully given us a bulleted list to work through, an even number

charles leifer | Hall of Mirrors //charlesleifer.com /blog /code /resume Hall of Mirrors June 02, 2026 10:08 / ai thoughts / 1 comments Who is he that hideth counsel without knowledge? therefore have I uttered that I understood not; things too wonderful for me, which I knew not. "Hold on a sec-". My new boss' now-familiar MacOS desktop appeared in the video call, browser with Claude open, dominating the screen. I watched as he copied the transcript of our call up to that point (he records transcripts of every call in order to feed the text into AI), and began a new chat with the prompt: "Say w

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