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Can You Build an Alternative to LLMs? 8 Months, ~200 Failed Experiments, One Wall. 2
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...
