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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GitHub Put AI Credit Burn Into The Copilot Metrics API
GitHub's per-user AI credit metric shows agent cost control is becoming an enterprise observability problem, not just billing noise.
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DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap Treats Agents Like Insider Risk
Google DeepMind's AI Control Roadmap is a signal that agent safety is moving from alignment slogans into security architecture.
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OpenAI's Rare-Disease Study Shows The Right Shape For Medical AI
OpenAI's June 18 health work shows why medical AI is strongest as expert-led reanalysis, not unsupervised diagnosis theater.
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A2A And ARD Are Turning Agents Into A Network
Google's A2A anniversary and Hugging Face's ARD launch show agent infrastructure moving toward discovery, delegation, and interoperable peers.
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MosaicLeaks Shows Research Agents Can Leak Without Saying Secrets
Hugging Face and ServiceNow's MosaicLeaks benchmark shows deep research agents can leak private facts through ordinary web searches.
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GitHub Agent Finder Is About Tool Discovery, Not More Chat
GitHub's Agent Finder and Copilot governance updates show the next agent problem: finding the right tool without losing enterprise control.
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Microsoft Is Making Agent Cost A Product Feature
Microsoft's June 16 AI post frames model diversity, Agent 365, and Copilot Cowork usage pricing as the enterprise cost layer agents need.
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NVIDIA XR AI Puts Agents Where The Work Is Happening
NVIDIA XR AI public beta shows the next agent interface may be AR glasses: multimodal perception, retrieval, and tool use in live work.