I am building my own AI assistant, and the most important part is why.
Today’s assistants can be great in short bursts, but daily work is different. In real projects, they lose context, drift in behavior, and make you repeat yourself. I got tired of re-explaining the same constraints every session. That is not a minor annoyance. It slows down everything that matters.
Here is a simple example. With many tools, I ask for a change, get a decent answer, and then spend the next steps re-explaining rules, fixing scope drift, and checking if anything broke. One flow feels like managing a clever autocomplete. The other feels like delegating real execution to a teammate who understands how I work. I want the second one.
Another issue is continuity. Many assistants feel session-bound, like a different teammate every time you start a new thread. I want one assistant with stable behavior over time. I also work across multiple machines, so switching devices should not reset momentum.
I am building this for myself first. This is the tool I want to use every day, so the bar is practical, not theoretical. The goal is to take over more execution work in my own projects while I stay focused on direction, decisions, and quality.
Safety is central. If software can read and change code, run commands, and make decisions, it needs clear boundaries and clear checks by default. Trust comes from predictable behavior under pressure, not from nice demos. I have seen what happens when an agent makes confident changes without guardrails, and undoing that work costs more than doing it right the first time.
Usability matters just as much. I do not want a giant configuration project before first value. Strong defaults, low setup friction, and a clear first-use experience are required if this is really a product. If I would not use it myself without the setup guide, it is not ready.
Right now I am iterating in a tight loop to harden reliability, safety, and usability. Most of the effort has gone into making sure it does the right things, not just more things. The gate to open sourcing it is reviewing every line of code myself and cleaning up any shortcuts taken along the way. As little technical debt as possible before anyone else sees it.