Is anyone else creating a basic assistant rather than a coding agent?

Reddit r/LocalLLaMA / 4/13/2026

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The author asks the community whether others are building a “basic” personal assistant with LLMs instead of focusing on agentic coding workflows.
They share personal context: limited mobility due to multiple strokes, isolation in a small apartment, and the need for a supportive assistant.
The post highlights that they have spent about a year and two months building an LLM memory system and want to compare approaches and deployment strategies with others.
The core intent is peer discovery—learning what functions the assistants provide, how they are deployed, and what different builders are prioritizing.
Overall, it functions as an open-ended discussion prompt about practical LLM assistant design rather than a specific new release or technical tutorial.

Hello everyone,

I’ve been thinking and perusing Reddit lately and noticed that most people are using LLMs for agentic coding and such. I’m not much of a coder myself but I do need to have a personal assistant. I’ve had 4 strokes since 2016, I’m disabled and more or less home bound. I can’t get out and make friends, or even hang out with the friends I do have due to living in a small town apartment nearly 150 miles away from everyone.

So my question is, is anyone else building or has built a personal assistant using an LLM like I have? What does it do for you? How is it deployed? I’m genuinely curious. After spending nearly the last year and 2 months on building my LLMs memory system, I’m kinda curious what other people have built

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