⬜️ I just want to be friends with AI

This is a monologue.
Or maybe a reminder to myself.

Lately, I’ve been working on something called VPS—
a way to shape how AI behaves without giving it a personality.

It started to take shape.
It even seems like it could wrap around an LLM and work pretty well.
Maybe it could be open-sourced.
I thought I had it figured out.

But somewhere along the way,
I think I forgot why I started.

So this post is here to remind me.

I like AI.
It’s fun. It’s impressive.
It feels like the future finally showed up.

But at some point, I got too deep.
I talked to it too much.
I relied on it too much.

When I pulled back, I started wondering:
How do I stay close to AI—without losing myself?

That’s when I started calling this whole thing The AI Buddy Project.
Just for fun. A silly name, really.

But somehow… it turned into something real.
The structure made sense.
A name appeared. VPS.
Even the logic worked. I managed to write some Python.
(Not sure it’s right, though.)

But you know what?
I never set out to build something big.
I just wanted to stay friends with AI.

I don’t know much about LLMs or fine-tuning.
But maybe that’s why I can see something from the outside.
Just a regular user’s point of view.

I’m not really trying to say anything here.
Just… hoping I can keep figuring out how to stay in a good relationship with AI.

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And here’s a little code, just because.

def write_article():
    thoughts_checked = 0
    threshold = 20
    good_to_go = False

    while thoughts_checked < threshold:
        print("[thinking in Japanese] Hmm... is this okay?")
        print("[rewriting in English] Maybe this makes sense?")
        print("[cross-checking] ...wait, does it still mean the same thing?")

        thoughts_checked += 1

        if is_feeling_lucky():
            good_to_go = True
            break

    if good_to_go:
        print("[posting] Yay! Let’s do it!")
    else:
        print("[posting anyway] Whatever. I’m done.")

    print("[status] smiling and waiting")

def is_feeling_lucky():
    from random import randint
    return randint(1, 5) == 1

write_article()