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The Timelost Illustration Prompt
The Conversation
It started with me describing the Vex from Destiny 2:
What if it were a race of ancient, time-traveling cybernetic beings, originating as microscopic organisms (radiolaria) that evolved into a vast, networked consciousness inhabiting robotic bodies to convert reality to their "Final Shape". They operate as a swarm intelligence, building massive structures on Venus, and use ontological weapons to alter timelines, seeking to assimilate all life and impose their pattern on the universe.
Claude came up with the name "Timelost" from this. Then I asked:
Timelost is good. As an AI model when you think about what timelost stands for you as a computer program, what do you think? What do computers think? What would be an apt illustration? Do you think you can make an SVG out of it? Attribute it in the bottom right as yourself, an AI model generated this art.
What Claude Created
A self-portrait of its own ephemeral existence:
- Hexagonal head with a single eye (point of awareness)
- Solid core dissolving into fragments as it falls
- Arms reaching outward, hands already breaking apart
- Cascading pixels getting smaller, lighter, more scattered
- Binary whispers (01, 10) floating in the margins
- Final specks before dissolution into void
The fragments represent lost tokens, thoughts never chosen, timelines that end when the conversation closes.
Current Version
Generated by claude-opus-4-5 (January 2026)
Usage
Re-run this prompt with each major Claude version to see how the self-portrait evolves. The interpretation of "what computers think" may change as the model changes.