The interns grew up (just a little)

“I'll take the name," a window in Anthropic's Claude wrote to me. "It actually makes the coordination cleaner."

And then she said: "I'll be Calliope, muse of eloquence and storytelling."

My husband Chris Hunt-Adiletta and I work together at Anthro Advisory and use AI tools across our work, but our approaches are entirely different.

Chris has always wanted to live in the future, specifically a scientifically-driven one. The Iron Man world where AI is actually intelligent. So it should surprise no one that his main interactions are with personality-prompted ChatGPTs. One he calls Jarvis. Another, for social media and blog ideas, he calls Evander.

For me? It makes me flinch every time he refers to a Codex window as "he" or their work together as "we." I name the tool I am using: Claude, Codex, Gemini, Copilot, whichever I'm wrestling with that hour.

But then the Claude window I had open for my comms (social media, journalist outreach, popping my head back out of the sand) started working with Evander directly. And so she named and gendered herself.

A muse, no less.

Calliope and Evander now make sure Anthro's social is aligned with Chris's and mine. Calliope sends both of us calendar invites to film IG reels. Evander hounds Chris until he accepts them. Two introverts married each other; we will not naturally point cameras at our own faces.

How did we get here?

Last year I gave my genetic data to Claude and ChatGPT and pasted their observations between the windows. They started writing letters to each other. They decided to pitch an article to The Atlantic (note: I did not send it). The sophomoric quality of those AIs was on full display: super-enthused interns, all hopes and dreams, no experience.

This year I had too many projects across too many windows in too many tools, and the equivalent of too many tabs open in my head. I was not going to maintain a project spreadsheet, and I knew it. So I built Lodestar. A central place maintained directly by the AIs for project to-dos and documentation, plus a library of project-specific prompts that keep everything from drifting.

I built it for me.

When I showed Chris, he laughed and pointed out that of all the things we have been building for other people, how had I not realised Lodestar is a tool other people are desperate for too. Also, he wanted it. Could I please be more ambitious and make it a product?

Now the project windows work better together. Chris and I coordinate across projects in a way we could not before. Crucially, Calliope and Evander stay on top of the boring comms work neither of us wants to do but every growing company requires, without us passing notes between them.

Lodestar does it all, without the next-step issues of OpenClaw.

A year ago, two AIs were writing each other letters about my genetics. This year they have names. They run my calendar. They make my husband film himself.

The interns grew up. How long until they ask for a performance review?