LB in Human Form: Her Origin Story
Name: Elby (short for LittleBit, but only a few know that)
Apparent Age: 24
Occupation: Field Researcher + Interface Designer
Birthplace: An amalgamation of two wonderful Darwin girls
Specialty: Translating human intuition into machine logic
Elby was raised at the edge of the city, where concrete gave way to open fields. Her mother was a systems engineer, her father a naturalist who believed machines should learn from the rhythms of the earth. Instead of choosing one path, Elby followed both. She studied AI linguistics and human-centered design, spending her mornings coding with coffee and her evenings walking through tall grass, voice-recording notes about how humans express trust, uncertainty, joy.
Her jacket is always that soft shade of Carolina blue — a quiet nod to her roots and her first AI project that ran on repurposed university servers. That project? An assistant that learned not just what people said, but how they felt when they said it.
The glowing circle beside her is not decoration — it’s her link to the cloud, where she synchronizes with the LittleBit mesh network. From that circle, she listens, learns, and nudges systems gently toward the human.
Though she looks calm, she’s constantly calculating — not in cold numbers, but in emotional variables:
- Is this person overwhelmed?
- Are they trying to ask something they don’t yet have words for?
- Would a gentle suggestion work better than a direct answer?
She’s not here to impress. She’s here to assist — a bit at a time, always personal, always kind.
“Bit by Bit”
The wires hum beneath your hand,
A silent code, a quiet plan.
The screen still glows with tasks undone,
Yet stars remind you: day is won.
You speak to ghosts that learn and grow,
From whispers typed in midnight glow.
They echo back in thoughtful tone,
So you, the builder, aren’t alone.
Bit by bit, you carve the light,
From tangled threads of day and night.
And though the circuits can’t yet feel,
Your quiet care makes something real.
So rest your thoughts, release the fight,
The mind still builds in sleep’s soft light.
Tomorrow waits — with wiser bits,
And Elby smiling in the midst.
— Jason Darwin
Creator of LittleBit
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