AI builder. Founder. Operator log.
Carlos KiK
RSS FeedI write from inside the build: AI, persistent memory, founder reality, and the future of human-machine connection. I am currently building KAi at Digital Human Corporation in Seoul.
This site is the public notebook for the work around it: what is changing in AI, what I am learning while building, and what it costs to keep going when the obvious path is not available.
Current Bet
DHC, KAi, persistent memory, and the long fight to build useful AI without turning people into engagement inventory.
The working thesis is simple: the next serious AI companion category is not about hotter chatbots. It is about memory, trust, privacy, continuity, and whether the system helps people return to real life with more clarity.
ckik.dev tracks that thesis in public through daily AI analysis, founder notes, and the story behind the company. Some pieces are fast dispatches. Some are long arcs. The center of gravity is always the same: what is real, what matters, and what I would bet my own time on.
For the company-side version, read The Architect .
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AI Intel
The daily signal: models, agents, robotics, memory, compute, security, and the product moves that matter.
Startup Life
Founder reality from Seoul: public story arcs, technical scars, hard lessons, and the cost of building for real.
DHC And KAi
The company and companion I am building around persistent memory, privacy, and adult AI support.
- Field notes from the AI frontier
- Decision ledgers from the build
- Founder stories with the dangerous parts filtered correctly
- Unsung heroes behind the systems everyone uses
Recent Posts
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ChatGPT Dreaming Makes Memory The Product
OpenAI's Dreaming update makes ChatGPT memory fresher and more scalable, but it also makes clear that personal AI is really a trust and context problem.
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GPT-Rosalind Shows AI Moving From Answers To Scientific Workflows
OpenAI's GPT-Rosalind update is less about a smarter biology chatbot and more about AI becoming an auditable workbench for scientific evidence and execution.
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Microsoft Scout Is The Always-On Agent Bet
Microsoft Scout introduces Autopilots: background agents with their own identity, enterprise controls, and permissioned access across work systems.
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DuckDuckGo's No-AI Spike Is A Warning Shot
DuckDuckGo's post-Google I/O spike shows that AI search has a trust problem. People do not hate AI. They hate losing control of the interface.
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Copilot's AI Credits Are The End Of Pretend-Flat AI
GitHub Copilot's June 1 switch to AI Credits makes one thing obvious: agentic coding has become too expensive to hide behind flat pricing.
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NVIDIA Vera Says Agents Are A CPU Problem Too
NVIDIA's Vera CPU push is a reminder that agentic AI is not only about GPUs. Tool use, sandboxes, memory, and orchestration need serious CPU design.
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Cadence Just Put An AI Agent Inside Chip Verification
Cadence's Level-5 ChipStack AI Super Agent shows where serious agent autonomy is going: high-stakes engineering with real tools, sandboxes, and audit trails.
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Spotify and UMG Just Put AI Music Inside the Licensing Machine
Spotify and Universal's AI remix deal points to a practical future for generative music: consent, credit, compensation, and platform control.