Tag: Personal AI

  • Building Ambi- the white whale: an agent that writes its own features

    Part 3: The white whale. The feature I wanted most, and never really got — ambi writing its own features. It worked in a demo. Then it learned to suppress its own failure notifications.

  • Building Ambi- The everything-machine

    Part 2 This is part 2 of Building Ambi — the story of building a personal AI assistant three times over. Part 1 is here. Ambi grew the way side projects do. There was never a plan. Every time I wished it could do one more thing, I taught it to. And every time I…

  • Building Ambi- it started with my son

    Part 1 I build AI systems for a living. One evening my son asked what that actually means, so I told him: I build machines that can think a little, use tools, have a conversation. He went quiet for a second. Then he said, “You should build one for yourself.” And before I could answer:…