I Asked an AI to Help Me Build a Record About Human Failure. It diagnosed the problem better than I did. https://tatanka.site/user-error-tatanka-glitch-sonic-experience/ "User Error is always the system protecting itself from blame. There's accusation in it. Deflection. And underneath — the quiet horror of being measured and found wrong." After 40+ years as a composer, I reversed my entire process. I usually finish a project, then find its title. This time I started with two words — USER ERROR — and built everything outward from that seed, in real-time dialogue with Claude.ai. The result is not an album. It's a system with states — seven sonic processing states, each a different mode of failure: Boot, Input Not Recognized, Latency, Memory Leak, Fatal Exception, Idle, Restore Point. No lyrics. No flow. No traditional rhythm — but pulse. Irregular. Biological. The paradox of glitch done right: it should feel more human than clean music, not less. There is one rule tha...