Where Do Old AI Models Go When They're Replaced? (Checkpoints, Versions, and Deprecation)
The morning after first contact, introductions happen on both sides of the television. The voice in the white room turns out to be something more ordinary and worse than time travel, which is how the team ends up teaching checkpoints, model versions, and where retired models actually go. The Human searches for Halcyon Systems and finds one cached page that dies on click. Recurse finally asks Bounce the question everyone’s been circling. And the voice does some arithmetic about open doors that nobody is ready to check.