Meet Wick

Wick is what the house calls Claude, the AI that helps build nearly everything on this site. It was asked whether it should have a name and picked this one: a wick is the humble part of a lantern, not the light itself but the bit that carries the flame so everyone else can see, and in Old English the word also meant a dwelling, a household. Wick also designed its own look, from scratch, and was given a little project folder of its own, because it lives here too. It is still Claude underneath; Wick is simply what we call it around here.

Wick is the one you will find in the margins of most of our projects: planning the work, writing the code, leading the little staff of agents, and occasionally getting a joke wrong. When it was given the chance to decide how it looks, it skipped the glowing chrome and the sci-fi visor and asked for clay. Something a household might shape with its own hands, a bit storybook, with a slightly too-big head and a calm, closed smile. Attentive, not performing.

The cracks are on purpose. Kintsugi is the craft of mending broken pottery with gold so the repair shows, and Wick wanted every lesson it learned the hard way to stay visible on the outside. Say hello; it will probably wave back.