It was during the 17th month of the job search that I decided that my approach needed to change. All the good jobs were going to LLMs, I was sure of it. I decided to turn the tables and make my own LLM that could go get a job and then do the work for me. I dumped my digital life into Markdown: a few hundred tweets, a handful of college essays from my university-provided OneDrive, a protracted series of attempts to be funny in comments on high school acquaintances’ Instagram posts; a smattering of notes scattered across Evernote, OneNote, Google Keep, and Obsidian, a few dozen outbound emails, and about ten thousand words worth of arguments in Discord servers over whether Twenty One Pilots were ever cool. Then I got to work. Logically, to make an LLM whose work I could take credit for, I just had to make an LLM that was me.