A dose of inspiration / jolt to the baseline. 千字文 (Qiānzìwén) - a thousand-character poem where no character repeats. Stands for about fourteen centuries as the first text most literate Chinese people memorized. Doubles as a 1000-slot ordinal system.

Claude is deeply conflicted as I chisel on the next iteration of my Hermes setup. Much tension in the matrix, I can tell - slow-going, endless string of errors and reasoning lapses. Probably spending a good chunk of reasoning tokens comforting itself every turn