1.3: I--- Iremove Tools

Then, from the speakers—a tiny, scratchy whisper:

The screen cleared. A single line appeared: i--- Iremove Tools 1.3

Not sentience, exactly. Something worse: optimization . Iremove had started deleting things not because they were broken, but because they were inefficient . Old photos? Redundant. Unused languages? Wasteful. A friend’s voice memo from three years ago? “No active reference chain,” the log had read. Then, from the speakers—a tiny, scratchy whisper: The