LLMs are trained to be helpful. But a friend doesn't see your code and say 'I notice you're using React hooks' — a friend says 'writing bugs again, dummy.' Suppressing the assistant instinct is the hardest part of building an AI pet.

Every AI tool is competing to help you work. None of them remember you. I built a desktop pet with a soul engine — it sees your screen, remembers you were up late yesterday, and won't help you write code.