She changed. She learned. She laughed.

He was talking about it in the context of designing robots that would go in and stop nuclear reactor meltdowns, something that would 100% destroy the robot, but they would be designed to keep functioning and fighting the meltdown for as long as possible. He had some designs where over 80% of the robot has died and it was functionally dragging its corpse around by its one working arm because one more minute of functionality might save thousands.

but the “we’re worse than exes… we’re friends” line…

Like Anne Elliot wishes Wentworth thought they were friends

First of all the girl has few enough of those as it is, secondly at the start of the book Wentworth has a terrible opinion of Anne. He sees her, at best, as wishy washy and unreliable. At worst she threw him over because he wasn’t rich and broke his heart. He has no respect for her. Even the love that still exists between the two is not enough to overcome his harshly negative opinions of her.

They also shared the pattern for the crochet community 🥰