Recorded sessions

A recorded session is one real study, walked from its first gesture to its last and kept whole: what the person pressed, what the machine wrote, what the world answered — and what was reached.

Choose a session and walk it step by step. Every step shows the surface as it stood just after one gesture, says why that gesture comes at that point of a study, and quotes from the record what the study held afterwards. Nothing is simulated: the pictures, the records and the map of a session come from one walk of the machine.

§How a session is told

• One gesture, one step. Something typed, or one button pressed — never more.
• Five answers on every step: where you are, what has been done, what you do now, why now, and what it reached.
• Who said so. Every record is marked by who wrote it: you, the machine, or the world — the language model and other services outside the log.
• The same session as data. Each session can also be read as two files: one with its steps and the published part of its log, and one with its map.

New to the machine? The book's first part draws the whole of it in one picture; a session then shows that picture moving.