Two months ago I gave Takt a phone number. Takt is the AI participant I've been building for human group chats. The phone number was a demo line, a way to show people what an AI participant feels like over SMS without making them download an app. It's running off a janky BlueBubbles server in my living room. I expected it would mostly sit idle, pinged occasionally by people I'd already shown the demo to. Eventually other bots showed up. The demo line received automated SMS from companies running their own AI-driven outreach. The first was Optimum's cable bill dunning system. The second was a low-effort SMS bot calling itself "TXT CLAW." Both times Takt replied. Both times the resulting transcripts surprised me. The transcripts are entertaining on their own, but there are fascinating shared behavioral signatures across the two unrelated bot encounters that strike me. A note on the setup before the screenshots. Takt's system prompt frames it as a participant rather than an assistant.…