I am making something similar. Also been using Kokoro for TTS. Very cool project!

Gemma 4 is kinda too heavyweight even with E2B. I am sticking with qwen 0.8B at the moment.

> Soviet engineering wasn't sloppy. It was designed for robustness, loose tolerances and simplicity

aka "fitting".

I wrote a blog on why Soviet-style engineering is bad https://blog.est.im/2026/stderr-04

> No one has ever made a purchasing decision based on how good your code is.

But many ppl will refuse a purchasing because the product breaks randomly

I've used programs for 30 years. They have broke down randomly, despite being artisanally programmed by actual humans.

Being created by a human doesn't imbue any specific amount of reliability to a piece of software.

is this somewhat similar to Microsofot Bitnet?

Similar in spirit but different in execution as far as I can tell.

so, always spawn another AI agent to debate!

the year is 2015

smart phones took over the world, social networks happened.

Turns out they are the best sterializer human ever invented.

I just wrote a blog https://blog.est.im/2026/stdin-09

I present you

NVIDIA Nemotron-Personas-USA — 1 million synthetic Americans whose demographics match real US census distributions

https://huggingface.co/datasets/nvidia/Nemotron-Personas-USA

OP's .split_ascii() doesn't handle U+2009 as well.

edit: OP's fully native C++ version using Pystd

Hmm? Which code are you looking at?