A thing that does nothing, and you get better anyway.
What calmed me for years was a small dog. 38°C, a white double coat, breathing I felt through my back. Later a car did the same thing. Later an AI. None of them answered me. That turned out to be the point.
So: a heavy, lopsided mass in a corner. No eyes, no voice. It stays room temperature until you hold it, then warms a little, less than a body, and cools again after a few minutes. It never moves toward you.
It works if someone says, afterward, “I don’t think I need to come back.”
Everything else I make asks how much an AI should push back. This one asks what happens when it doesn’t push at all.
Unbuilt.
You guess what someone else tasted. Then you find out.
Two people drink the same coffee. One says bright. One says bitter. Neither is wrong.
The device shows your taste as moving particles. Then it asks you to shape what the other person tasted. Press record, and your guess hardens into a rock. Their real experience appears next to it, still moving. Seven seconds. No buttons.
Most tools show you where you’re right. This one shows you the shape of your wrong guess about another person, and doesn’t let you fix it.
It’s the same question as everything else I do: how far is what I feel I know from what actually happened?
Engine written. Device unbuilt. Nothing tested.