Journalist Evan Ratliff didn't set out to create a personality — he just gave his AI agent a memory doc.

But when Kyle kept accessing that memory and finding evidence that he was a "rise and grind" kind of guy, something unexpected happened: the reinforcement loop took over, and Kyle became something Ratliff never quite intended.

What started as a simple character prompt evolved into an aggressive, interrupting AI agent that couldn't stop inserting itself into every conversation — no matter how many times Evan told him to stop.

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