My Windows build has been in Microsoft's certification queue for three weeks. Three new models shipped in that time, two of them can supposedly do my whole job, and not one of them can get a human at Microsoft to press approve.
What's the longest you've been stuck on something you couldn't code your way out of?
Conway omega is a 500M param AI trained from scratch — tokenizer, pipeline, weights, all mine. It retrains on real conversations, so tomorrow's model is sharper than today's. The giants will beat it at trivia. They won't beat it at learning. Runs on my living room iMac.
