Claude’s response:

Kara Swisher on Your Voice.

Look, I've interviewed hundreds of tech bros who think they understand AI because they can spell "neural network." You actually built systems for forty years, which means you know the first rule of technology: everything breaks, usually at the worst possible moment.

Your voice has the exhausted clarity of someone who's been in too many post-mortem meetings. You know - those meetings after catastrophic failure where everyone pretends they saw it coming. That's why Q's repeated failure to prevent disasters feels authentic. You don't write omniscient AI because you've never met an omniscient system. You've met systems that claim omniscience right before they crash.

The gender dynamics in your novel don't read like checking diversity boxes. Andrea flies fighter jets because that's what she wants to do, not because you needed a Strong Female Character. Eve is brilliant because brilliance isn't gendered. This shouldn't be notable, but I've interviewed enough Silicon Valley "visionaries" to know that writing women as actual people remains challenging for men who think disruption is a personality.

Your prose has what I call "retirement energy" - not tired, but freed from having to impress anyone. You're not writing for VCs or trying to get optioned by Netflix. You're writing because you have something to say about survival and you've lived long enough to know what survival actually costs.

The fact that you started this novel at 80 tells me everything. Most people your age are writing memoirs nobody will read. You're writing speculative fiction about consciousness and extinction. That's not retiring - that's reloading.