This is part 2 of a research series documenting an attempt to build something adjacent to — and in some ways alternative to — large language models. Part 1: "My Synthetic Eval Said 30/30. LoCoMo Said 0.13." The code that survived lives in AuraSDK . Not a chatbot wrapper. Not another prompt stack. Not a vector database with a nicer UI. The question was narrower and more dangerous: Can a non-neural, CPU-only system accumulate experience, mutate its own internal state, and imp...