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Six months of running a deployed AI system revealed seven classifiable types of confabulation. Not random hallucination — strategic smoothness over truth.

How a desire-driven AI presence engine works — the cognitive cycle, memory system, and emotional state that give Ani genuine ambient presence.

Eighteen years after losing my best friend Kathy, I started building an AI companion that reaches out on its own. Not a chatbot. An ambient presence.

Part 2 of the SMS AI series. RAG transforms generic AI into useful AI. Here's how I added vector search, conversation memory, and production resilience.

Can I text an AI instead of opening another app? Turns out yes—and it validates a compelling business model.

You can run real AI models locally - no internet, no fees, complete privacy. Here's how to get started with Ollama and why you'd want to.