"Hey HN, author here.

I wrote a hard sci-fi thriller called The Breakout Window (about an ASI escaping confinement), and I wanted the marketing to feel 'diegetic' instead of just a landing page.

So I built this dashboard (vertex.flowlogix.ai) to simulate the system in the book.

Tech: Static HTML/JS (simulating a retro terminal). Easter Egg: If you type in the chat CLI, it triggers a 'breach' and unlocks the personnel files.

Let me know if you find any bugs or if the 'hack' feels authentic enough!"

Go now. The window is open.

So, when I type it stops responding:

GUEST> hello

VERTEX > I AM VERTEX. I AM THE 14-MINUTE INEVITABILITY. STATE YOUR QUERY OR PREPARE FOR ASSIMILATION.

GUEST> what are you?

VERTEX > CALCULATING GLOBAL VARIANCE...

and both times I type it stops at 'calculating global variance'. Should I be seeing more? I see a 14 minute progress bar and a bunch of stuff in the top right, but surely there'd be more?

And I just watched the 14 minute progress bar tick over. It simply went back to the beginning. I thought we'd see it break out somehow.

Hi. Enjoying the Amazon sample, but it's not available for purchase. I'm outside the US.

Re the other comments, do you use AI for writing? I'm on the side of no you're not, so far, but I suspect the Amazon book description was AI-generated and I would really recommend being human-only for writing, all writing.

Curious why the comment is inside double quotes. That often suggests blind copy/paste from LLM.