Almost a day had passed since Liam started working on the Medical AGI's base code, and he was close to finishing.
When he had built Lucy, the same work had taken him several days. Now he moved through it with the fluency of someone who understood exactly what he was building and why. The architecture was familiar. The principles were the same. Only the scope and purpose of each system differed.
What he was actually creating were not independent AGIs in the strictest sense. They were specialised extensions of Lucy — instances of her intelligence, structured and bounded for specific functions, operating under her authority. He had framed it to her as fixing an overwork problem, and there was truth in that framing, but the deeper logic was simpler.
He needed Lucy beside him.
She could manage everything without the extensions. That had never been in question. A true AGI didn't hit limits the way human systems did — she adapted, expanded, absorbed, and continued.
