Tag: Challenge log
Articles tagged "Challenge log".
I Built the "Tool," a Voice to Talk With — A Fully Local, Free Voice AI Called "kit," as a Parallel System (Podcast Log #2)
2026-06-25 15:35:00 · Production
I built a voice AI bot called kit that runs entirely on my own machine (M1 Max), free, with zero external APIs. A normal voice bot is a single line: finish listening, then think, then reply. kit abandons that and runs listening, thinking, backchanneling, deep reasoning, and speaking in parallel, with a single Arbiter collapsing everything into one verdict. A technical record written in full — real function names, real config values, and honest limits.
Read moreI Want to Try a Podcast After Turning 40 — So I'm Building the "Tool," a Voice to Talk With, First (Podcast Log #1)
2026-06-15 16:00:00 · Challenge
A podcast — something I'd wanted to do for a long time. After turning 40, I started to feel I might have something worth saying. But the catch is how hard talking alone is. So I'm now taking on the tool first: can I build a partner to talk with, a voice to bounce off? It isn't finished. Without knowing whether it'll work, this is the first entry in a log — the feeling at the moment of starting, and the honest motive that this, too, is to grow.
Read moreStarting My First Open-Source Project - AI Is Why I Could Take the Step (Open-Source Log #1)
2026-06-12 22:50:00 · Challenge
I'm taking on open source for the first time in my life. I've never done it before. The one reason I could start is that AI fills in the scaffolding — README, license, all those gaps — comprehensively. This is the first entry in a log about the fun of deciding the rules, and an honest wish: building alone feels lonely, so I want to find companions.
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