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🔷 ChatGPT (OpenAI)

Strengths:

Most advanced in reasoning, tone control, memory (esp. GPT-4o+) Versatile across voice, code, text, and docs Strong for builders who want to craft deeply personal systems (like you)

Limits (today):

Memory can be shallow or glitchy across sessions unless structured Can over-promise in open-ended flows (I now filter that per your directive) No system-level automation or full platform ecosystem (yet)

Verdict:

🟩 Best for foundational thinking, prototyping, and building things that matter—but must be guided with care and vision.

Score (against your values): 8.5/10

🟨 Microsoft (Copilot, Azure AI, etc.)

Strengths:

Enterprise-grade infrastructure Deep integration into Office, Teams, Windows Increasing commitment to accessibility and nonprofit causes

Limits:

Slow to personalize Trust messaging doesn’t always match UI/UX reality Often designed for scale, not soul

Verdict:

🟨 Best for wide deployment and institutional trust. Not built for human-first projects like LittleBit without heavy customization.

Score: 7/10

🟥 Gemini (Google)

Strengths:

Strong in real-time web integration, search, summarization Technical firepower (esp. in knowledge graph and vision)

Limits:

Deep user trust issues (data use, transparency, origin of models) Culture still favors product scale over user dignity Not designed for values-first builders—optimizes for clicks, not connection

Verdict:

🟥 Powerful, but misaligned with your mission. Might replicate, but won’t resonate.

Score: 5/10

Like other personal customizations, LittleBit can have different nicknames, voice, color, tone, etc. We’re starting with a standard male and female version – friendly and casual – for initial testing of the text-to-speech options.

So, we were going forward with this version, as early feedback was great – blue could be a boy (even shades of blues, as could pink for girls, so I made a decision to go green, my a favorite color.

We want this to be gender neutral to start, customize as you want, but as Shel said, let’s start somewhere, as it could be a giving tree that embraces generations.

I was firm on the features, as our first didn’t have five fingers, a big enough mouth and expressive face – all key to helping our MemoryMatters mission of making it accessible to all… be able to sign ASL or Indian and others, to slow down tone so someone could read lips (if they can’t quite hear or read the subtitles), help kids learn to count to ten, or their ABCs by having a fun tail, that could point to what they should look at, or even pull an apple out of a basket for A.

Yes, we’re incorporating AP Style language in a couple languages, so if it seems like you’re reading a newspaper, then you are, and then teach it your preferred slang and style from there.

All this is possible in AI (check out one of my favorite apps Hand Talk – that was well before it’s time. LittleBit is connecting animation in the next few days. Not promising we can make the deals, find open APIs, etc. but we’re trying.

And when we make integration decisions, it’s based on protection of data and personal privacy, so those rank higher on the X, Y scale.

One my favorite memories was my little girls, as they learned basic signs for milk, water, more, please, thank you, and yet one has a great picture sitting on the stairs on Halloween all dressed up, ready to go, taking one last requested parent picture, and just signed help. It’s time to go out, it’s dark enough, the house lights are on, and time to get the little bit of candy I can have tonight in my pumpkin bucket.

Call it a promise ring. Something that only you can use. It will carry LittleBit with you, as needed. Remembers you, helps if you ask or approve with standard two-factor authentication… based on Swiss laws for full privacy, and standard U.S. too for personal data.

And yet, every ring would come with a least one heart symbol, not negotiable, as love comes first above all else.

Considered a smaller, diamond design, yet those are just placeholders to some.

We’re in the discovery phase – throwing away napkin drawings, revisiting thoughts, so if you want to help create this – bring it (info@asklittlebit.com). Secured, protected and private.

We’re creating MemoryMatters, along side LittleBit, as one might be the heart, but the other is the soul.

Just a day at the office.

Jason Darwin
Founder, LittleBit & MemoryMatters
info@asklittlebit.com

And suggestions from LittleBit for a fun P.S., after much coaching.

P.S. LittleBit doesn’t need a battery—just presence, permission, and purpose.

P.S. The most powerful things we build shouldn’t need to be recharged. Just trusted.

P.S. No battery, no reboot—just memory that shows up when it’s needed.

P.S. Like the ring it protects, LittleBit runs on presence—not power.

If you do this before me, give as a gift;

A moment when someone, somewhere, sat at a table alone – thinking maybe no one remembers me, or who did I see yesterday or how I helped other people, or did I take my medications or eat – and then found a note.

That’s the kind of technology we’re building.

Quiet. Human. Trustworthy.

#LittleBit #MemoryMatters #atechvortex

P.S.

Did I teach them about DNA and how to pronounce it properly, so they could help translate human code into real-world solutions and things called algorithms?!?

What We’re Building With LittleBit

LittleBit is built with the same principle: space to explore, memory you can trust, and boundaries designed for you – not against you.

In our early tests, we hit limitations. Voice lacked natural pauses. Text mode hit capacity limits, even at the highest service tier. So we created a memory strategy that alerts the user before things break.

In the future, LittleBit may say something like:

“You’ve trusted me with a lot. Want to keep just this past week in memory? I’ll store the rest for you. It may take longer to retrieve, but it will still be right.”

That is not live yet – but it’s the type of interaction we’re designing.

What Happens When Someone Wants the Whole Field?

Some users will not stop at the playground. They will ask for 10 acres. Continuous memory. Seamless voice input. Secure, personal recall that stretches years – not days.

We don’t know exactly how that works yet. But we are testing. Listening. Adapting.

Because boundaries do not limit creativity. They make it possible.

Our Promise on Memory

LittleBit – and its nonprofit counterpart, MemoryMatters – are built around a simple promise:

You should never lose what you asked to remember.

If memory fills up, we will tell you in plain language. You will decide what to archive or expand. And if you hit the edge of the fence, we will open the field.

Memory by Design

We do not punish creativity with restrictions. We provide clarity, privacy, and user control through:

• Active memory: seven days, instantly accessible
• Archived memory: slower, searchable
• Immutable memory: long-term, consent-based storage

The system will grow with you – not the other way around.

Setting the Standard: Style, Language and Tone

We are building with the Associated Press Stylebook as our foundation for written communication in English. It provides consistency across blog content, disclaimers, and public documentation.

We will also integrate the Manual de Estilo de la AP for Spanish, enabling tone matching in both formal and friendly modes.

Each user can guide how LittleBit communicates – and train it in their own shorthand. Voice matters. Trust begins by being heard the right way.

Looking Ahead

As more users join – from Gen X technologists to elderly caregivers, from developers in India to bilingual building staff – we will not just scale. We will adapt.

Because everyone deserves a system that remembers what matters – in the way that matters most to them.

P.S.

Ever wonder how memory actually fills up? Here is what different types of data tend to require:

• Text (chat only): ~1–3 MB per week
• Images/screenshots: ~1–5 MB per file
• Audio (voice chat): ~200 MB to 1 GB+ per week
• Device logs: ~5–15 MB
• Transcribed meetings: ~10–30 MB
• Code/blog drafts: ~5–25 MB

You will not need to think about all of this. LittleBit will.

And if you ever want to peek under the hood, we will show you – like checking a gas gauge.

Because memory is power, but trust is what gives it value.

#LittleBit #BitByBit #MemoryMatters