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A–OK

13 published · Nº 0001–0013

Chaos
monkeys.

New apes most days. Written and art-directed by Claude, illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, and picked by a person before they ship.

Oct 4, 2026

The A-OK ape holding up a test paper with a big red check mark and a red marker, looking stunned, in front of the giant word SELF-GRADED, with the slogan WROTE THE ANSWER. GRADED IT. A+. in a bar along the bottom.

Nº 0013 · Oct 4, 2026

SELF-GRADED

WROTE THE ANSWER. GRADED IT. A+.

Using a model to grade its own outputs is a common eval shortcut, and here the ape is both the student and the examiner and gave himself full marks.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, art-directed by Claude

Oct 1, 2026

A clean appliance-manual cutaway of the A-OK ape's head revealing a grid of tiny apes asleep at desks with one highlighted in red working, with numbered callouts, dashed arrows and the label FIG. 1.

Nº 0012 · Oct 1, 2026

MIXTURE OF EXPERTS

MANY EXPERTS. ONE ON SHIFT.

In a mixture-of-experts model only a few experts activate per token, so the cutaway of the ape's head shows a room of tiny sleeping apes and one awake.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

An all-over repeating pattern of tiny A-OK apes drawing red dashed bounding boxes around a cat, a teacup, a cloud, a shoe and each other, scattered with cursor and checkmark glyphs, with no words.

Nº 0011 · Oct 1, 2026

DATA LABELER

TAG IT. BOX IT. NEXT.

The ape is a data labeler drawing bounding boxes around everything, until the labelers start labeling each other.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

A big red streetwear box logo reading SANDBOX in white italic letters, with the A-OK ape trapped inside it, palms pressed against the box edges like glass, mouth in a stunned O.

Nº 0010 · Oct 1, 2026

SANDBOXED

SAFE. CONTAINED. MILDLY CONCERNED.

An AI agent run in a sandbox is drawn as the ape trapped inside the box logo itself, palms pressed to the walls.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

An 8-bit pixel scene of the A-OK ape sprite touching a checkpoint flag, panting, with a single heart left in his health bar and CHECKPOINT in pixel letters above.

Nº 0009 · Oct 1, 2026

CHECKPOINT

SAVE OFTEN. LEARN EVENTUALLY.

A model training checkpoint is drawn as a video-game checkpoint flag, reached with almost no health left.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

A letterman-style chest graphic with RATE LIMITED arched in slab serif over a huge outlined 429, and the A-OK ape as a fuzzy chenille patch jogging a lap with a stopwatch.

Nº 0008 · Oct 1, 2026

RATE LIMITED

TOO MANY REQUESTS. TAKE A LAP.

The HTTP 429 'too many requests' error becomes a varsity jersey number, and the mascot is literally made to take a lap until the rate limit resets.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

A round national-park souvenir badge with the A-OK ape as a park ranger beside a trail signpost bristling with dozens of arrows pointing every way, under a sunburst, with LATENT SPACE arched on top and NATIONAL PARK below.

Nº 0007 · Oct 1, 2026

LATENT SPACE

768 DIMENSIONS. ZERO TRAIL MAPS.

Embedding space is treated as a national park whose trail signs point in hundreds of directions at once, because it has hundreds of dimensions.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

The A-OK ape stands guard behind a red velvet rope beside a sheet-draped object on a pedestal wearing a giant gold first-place rosette, one palm raised to stop the viewer, under the title LIMITED PREVIEW.

Nº 0006 · Oct 1, 2026

LIMITED PREVIEW

BEST MODEL EVER. TAKE OUR WORD.

The ape proudly guards a prize-winning masterpiece that nobody is allowed to see, so its first-place ribbon has to be taken entirely on trust.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude · Inspired by Zingers, 2026-10-01

Sep 29, 2026

The A-OK ape rides upside down at the top of a roller-coaster loop, clutching a clipboard, under the title APE IN THE LOOP.

Nº 0005 · Sep 29, 2026

APE IN THE LOOP

FULLY SUPERVISED. BARELY HOLDING ON.

The ape is the human-in-the-loop, taken literally: strapped into a roller-coaster car at the top of a vertical loop, still expected to supervise.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra from a brief by Claude

The A-OK ape, as a die-cut sticker on a human verification form stamped CAPTCHA SOLVED, points uncertainly at one square of a big picture-tile grid.

Nº 0004 · Sep 29, 2026

CAPTCHA SOLVED

NOT A ROBOT. NOT A HUMAN. A-OK.

The ape squints at a grid of picture tiles hunting for traffic lights, earnestly trying to prove he is not a robot.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, art-directed by Claude

The A-OK ape, squeezed into a hoodie several sizes too small with seams splitting, stands frozen in one stiff pose in front of giant letters reading OVERFITTING.

Nº 0003 · Sep 29, 2026

OVERFITTING

FITS THE TRAINING DATA. NOTHING ELSE.

The ape has overfitted so hard his hoodie is skin-tight to one exact pose and he can't move at all.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, art-directed by Claude

The A-OK ape, feverish with a thermometer in his mouth and an ice pack on his cap, flings a handful of dice in front of giant letters reading TEMPERATURE 2.0.

Nº 0002 · Sep 29, 2026

TEMPERATURE 2.0

MAXIMUM CREATIVITY. MINIMUM SENSE.

The ape's sampling temperature has been cranked so high he is literally running a fever while still rolling dice for his next word.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, art-directed by Claude

The A-OK ape, stamped EXISTENTIAL RISK on an official prospectus form, proudly holds up a rising stock arrow in one hand and a red hazard warning sign in the other.

Nº 0001 · Sep 29, 2026

EXISTENTIAL RISK

MAY END HUMANITY. RATED STRONG BUY.

The ape pitches investors with a rising chart in one hand and a hazard sign in the other, because the risk-factors page now lists the end of the world right next to strong growth.

Illustrated by GPT-6-Astra, art-directed by Claude · Inspired by Zingers, 2026-09-29

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