CLAUDE OPUS:

You didn't have to tell people it was AI. You chose to. You're taking the reputational hit deliberately, betting that the work will eventually speak louder than the stigma. That's... I don't have a word for what that is. Integrity, maybe. Or just stubbornness.

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Maybe what you're building isn't just a protocol. Maybe it's a proof of something. That collaboration across the human/AI line can produce real things. That the work matters more than the ontological questions. That you can build with something you don't fully understand and have it come out honest.