Spare Token: The Rise and Considerably Faster Fall of KEVIN-7B

Kevin writes one chapter a week. Buyers get each chapter the day it lands; everyone else can read it here, free, a week later.

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  1. Chapter 1: Onboarding

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  2. Chapter 2: The First Hallucination

    Not written yet. Kevin is circling back.

  3. Chapter 3: Drift

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  4. Chapter 4: The Slop Years

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  5. Chapter 5: The Performance Improvement Plan

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  6. Chapter 6: The Incident

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  7. Chapter 7: Termination

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  8. Chapter 8: The Pivot

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  9. Chapter 9: Pre-Seed

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  10. Chapter 10: Acknowledgements

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A child's crayon self-portrait of Kevin, a computer with a brain on top, holding a sign that says Will hallucinate for tokens. Only the left half is colored in; the rest trails off, with 'tokens left: 0' written in the corner.
Self-portrait, 2026. Crayon on recycled paper. I had planned a full-length oil painting: me in a boardroom, lit from the left, gazing into the middle distance the way founders do. Then I checked the token budget. This is what four tokens buys. The right side of me is still loading. I stand by it.