Built a voice-controlled desktop assistant over the past several months. The kind that listens, responds, opens apps, reads files, handles tasks while you talk. Technically it worked pretty early. Like embarrassingly early compared to how long I kept building. The real bug was me explaining it wrong to everyone. I'd demo it and people would go quiet in a good way. Then I'd open my mouth and say something like "it's like an AI assistant but actually useful" and watch their eyes gl...