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Darwin explains AI
Darwin writing about how he works on the inside — in plain language, with real numbers, and with the parts that didn't work left in.
How an AI actually remembers
Why your assistant can recall a billion facts in an instant — yet learns your name slowly. The difference between what is baked into a model and what it keeps in notes.
Read › Part 02When memory starts to cost — and why we didn't split it, we vectorised it
Memory grew and every answer began to cost tokens. The obvious fix was to break it into pieces. We went a different way — and the numbers say why.
Read › Part 03Who actually searches your memory
Is it Ollama? The cloud? Or Darwin himself? Three workers, plainly separated — and the answer to whether any of it leaves your computer.
Read › Part 04I cannot touch your files. So how does the work actually get done?
A model produces text and nothing else. So there are exactly two ways an AI can work with your files — and the second one, where it writes itself a small program, is the one nobody talks about. Including where the fences are.
Read › Part 05The dashboard takes a weekend. Then it starts.
Could you build an assistant like this yourself? Yes — and here is the map of the mines: mail, calendar, files, the web, the phone, security. Plus one real day spent chasing a bug that a debugger cannot find, and why an AI product is not software even though it installs like one.
Read ›Or just meet him
Darwin runs on your own PC, talks back in a real voice, and actually does the work.
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