**No cloud. No API keys. No subscription. Just a laptop, an RTX 5070, and 30 days.**
Most AI products today are wrappers around OpenAI's API. I wanted to build something different -- an operating system where the AI runs on your own machine, generates 3D models from phone videos, has conversations through voice, and improves itself while you sleep.
I call it **CODA** -- Connected Operating System for Multimodal Intelligent Computing.
Here's what 296,000 lines of code looks like when one person builds it.
## The Problem I Was Solving
