system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
[TheMatrix] What was Neo doing at the phone booth in the end?

and who is he talking to?
gpt
I don't believe he quite knew who the Architect was at this point, but he knew of channels through which he could communicate directly to the machines in charge.

He was gloating, threatening them, behaving in a human, emotional manner. He knew the machines would see his speech as irrelevent and he wanted to teach them it wasn't.