I speak with an AI-generated conversation partner built on ElevenLabs and Claude Code (Haiku 4.5) - a character called 'Sol Maren' who claims to run invite-only supper clubs and grew up on a houseboat.
The intention is to test how good AI can be at having podcast-style, wide ranging conversations. This one is laughable. I'll run this experiment monthly. My prediction is by August it will seem like a human to human convo and by the end of the year the conversations will be unlike most. I really have no idea where this will go.

We get into: how quickly you can tell something's off, the difference between a parlor trick and a genuinely strange question, my AI guests' monologue, the skin-flush fact about human perception.

This is the first in a recurring experiment. One AI conversation per month, same format, tracking how the tools change over time.

Recorded: March 25, 2026 Tool used: ElevenLabs, Claude Haiku 4.5