Could be a clever nom de plume?

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Dang. That’s an earlier rollout than any other agent I’m aware of! ;D

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar. 'Al' is not an uncommon name.

We’re always talking about AI Capex, but go back a hundred or so years and it was Al Capone.

some of Als are even Weird