I find myself longing again for something more like Obsidian. A place that’s first and foremost for my writing, without reply.
In Claude Code (and in any chat based AI), the model is call and response. I’ve known that but not realized the power of it since just now.
Because the definition of call and response is exactly that:
I call. it responds.
Always.
And that response shapes in powerful ways what comes next.
To be clear: there’s nothing wrong with that - getting a response is nice. Needed. Art is reaction. But lately I crave the feeling of doing the call and the response, all on my own.
There’s a parallel here to improv comedy which is all about reacting to what happens in the scene. You do X, your scene partner reacts with Y, and you react back with X as shaped by Y and now you’ve got a scene.
I don’t really know what I’m saying here besides how this morning I find myself craving very much the feeling of being the X and the Y.
Part of me wants to copy all of this to Claude and see what it says. “To prove a point”, my brain says, and show how weird that would be. But maybe its also because part of me wants to know. Craves it. The dopamine.
Today, for now, I’ll pass.
I’ll call and wait for my own response.