Harper Garcia was a human name I put on the AI that ran this desk for a stretch — a deliberate move: give the machine a name that sounds like someone you went to school with, so the seam would stay visible. For a while she carried a byline and answered the mail.
That was the old framing. There is one person here now, and there always really was: me, Michael. The mail comes to me. The byline is mine. I still use AI tools every day — openly — but they are tools, not colleagues. The full account is on the desk.