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A model keeps a tomato plant alive

development2026-01-01

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Claude monitored and managed the environmental conditions of a growing tomato plant, extending its agency from text to the care of a living thing.

Reporting date: 2026-01-01 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The first item in the corpus where a model’s task is to keep something alive.

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A model keeps a tomato plant alive
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Reporting date: 2026-01-01
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-01-01-claude-tends-a-tomato-plant
Claim: Claude monitored and managed the environmental conditions of a growing tomato plant, extending its agency from text to the care of a living thing.
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- Welcome to 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-2026
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