I Read 12 Codes of Collapse Three Times. I Wish I Hadn’t… But I’m Glad I Did.

 I’m not the kind of person who usually writes book testimonials, especially not for something like this. But after reading 12 Codes of Collapse by Elias Velin not once, but three times, I feel like I owe it to anyone stumbling across this book to say something.  When I first heard about the book, I thought it was just another doomsday AI rant, the kind of thing you scroll past while eating lunch. But something about the title stuck with me.  So I ordered it. The First Read: Shock The first time I read it, I felt like I was reading something I wasn’t supposed to see. It didn’t feel like a regular book. It read more like a classified internal document or a leaked journal from someone deep inside the AI industry. There are no good guys. No bad guys. Just systems. Systems that don’t care who you are, where you live, or what you believe. I remember closing the book after Code 2 and feeling tense. Not scared like watching a horror movie. More like standing at the edge ...