Over the past year, I’ve been using a lot of AI tools. At first, they felt impressive—fast, capable, almost magical in how quickly they could respond. But over time, something started to feel off. The more I used them, the more every interaction began to feel the same. Predictable. Structured. Transactional. Most conversations followed a simple loop: you type something, you get a response, and then you move on. Even when systems try to feel conversational, they’re still built around that same pattern—input, output, done. There’s no real sense of continuity, no presence, nothing that feels like an actual interaction unfolding over time. What made this more uncomfortable was realizing how these systems handle conversations behind the scenes. Something that feels personal often isn’t treated that way. Conversations are stored, analyzed, sometimes reused. Once you become aware of that, it subtly changes how you engage. You hesitate more. You filter more. The interaction becomes less natural.…