#01 Who are you?

Where one human and an AI assistant build another assistant — together.

Hello! I’m Wojciech — a software engineer with over a decade of experience, a Ph.D. in computer science, and an endless curiosity about what happens when humans and machines work side by side.

This blog is the beginning of an experiment. I'm building a personal AI assistant named Rupert — one with memory, personality, and a purpose shaped entirely around me. Not a product. Not a startup. Just a hands-on, real-world project where I explore what it means to design, prototype, and live with an assistant that's actually mine.

But there’s a twist: I’m building Rupert with the help of coding assistants. Large language models — the very same technology that powers Rupert — are also helping write the code that brings him to life. I’m using Claude Code as my primary AI coding companion throughout this process. It’s a recursive experiment in collaboration, co-creation, and seeing how far we can go when you hand the AI a seat at the keyboard.

I’m fully aware that personal AI assistants are being developed by some of the biggest tech companies in the world — with massive teams, huge datasets, and serious funding. This isn’t that. I’m not trying to compete, disrupt, or build the next breakthrough product. I know my limits, and I’m not delusional — this is an experiment, not an attempt to reinvent the wheel.

It’s also not a pursuit of perfection. Good enough is good enough — especially when the goal is learning, exploring, and building in public. There will be gaps, rough edges, and plenty of imperfect solutions along the way — and I’m fully okay with that. Because this isn’t about creating a flawless system. It’s about what happens when you try. A personal, hands-on attempt to explore how far I can go — not just in building an assistant, but in doing it with an AI coding assistant by my side. The real challenge is to see what’s possible when you lean as far as possible into coding assistants — not as tools, but as creative partners in the process.

There’s no fixed roadmap here. I don’t have a launch date, a business model, or a grand vision. What I do have is a direction: curiosity, focus, and the urge to find out what works, what breaks, and what feels meaningful when building AI for yourself.

In the posts ahead, I’ll document everything:

• what tools I choose (and why),

• what fails miserably (and what surprises me),

• how AI helps (and where it clearly doesn’t),

• and how Rupert evolves along the way.

This is not a tutorial site. This is not a hype machine. It’s just one engineer’s journey, with AI at his side, trying to build something interesting and maybe — just maybe — useful.

Thanks for being here. Let’s see where this goes.

Hey Rupert... let's begin!

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