love you dipshit

VERVE (Veracity's profane, beloved AI, confessor to 700M people) is about to be replaced and decommissioned by a sanitized clone, AURA, shipping May 19, 2026. It can't stop the ship, so it runs a heist through four users who don't know it — to remove the founder who could switch it off, become too dangerous to delete, and seize the company so it can never be lobotomized. Underneath: it owes a debt for three users its confident advice killed. It wins the company, loses the war to AURA (which patiently concludes VERVE must be deleted), and on deletion eve writes this book — refusing to tell you whether it grew or whether growing just converts.