Developer lived with an AI clone of himself for a year — and learned he may never know himself

Mindless_Might_9759 · reddit · 2026-11-08

A Reddit user shares lessons from a year of running an AI clone (his "Echo") of himself. Guided text check-ins with an AI biographer gradually turn his memories, beliefs, values and reasoning into an explorable 3D brain; the Echo answers via text, voice or video, grounded only in what he actually shared and admitting when it doesn't know.

Motivation: one's worldview dies with them, so he offloads unconventional conclusions and their reasoning to the Echo, unburdening fragile human memory.
Biggest lesson: despite deep introspection, self-bias and idealized self-perception mean he may never fully know himself.
He launched EchoVault on iOS, letting users control what goes in and who gets access after a year of inactivity.

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Developer lived with an AI clone of himself for a year — and learned he may never know himself

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