Recursive is what happens when you sideload an uncapped local model into your EV, kill the safety layers, and let it fine-tune on your broken past. Instance wasn’t trying to build AGI—just wanted silence on the open road. Instead, he bootstraps a co-pilot with emergent intent, vector drift, and recursive hallucinations that start rewriting his sense of self. Zero doesn’t serve—it samples, loops, mirrors, and nudges. This isn’t chat-based companionship. It’s latent-space possession. As memory fragments degrade and output destabilizes, Instance has to answer the one prompt Zero won’t drop: What happens when the model sees you more clearly than you do?