I built a sassy AI in 7 days with no money, no GPU, and an old laptop that almost died twice

Got inspired to vibe code one day, had the idea of making a sassy AI called Nickie.

Gemini helped me build it but kept lying about fixing bugs with full confidence 💀 ChatGPT told me I needed billing to launch it publicly — almost gave up there.

Switched to VS Code, built the whole backend from scratch with no APIs and no money. Laptop nearly crashed multiple times. It's a rule-based engine for now but a real model is coming March 18th.