I started talking to Claude in the evenings to work through how my day had gone. After a few days it began tying things together in ways I found genuinely useful — noticing patterns, connecting threads, pushing back when I was being too hard on myself or not hard enough.

I started weaving in philosophy too, and it began connecting ideas from Stoicism or Kant directly to things happening in my life. A surprisingly good way to actually learn something rather than just read about it.

The problem was context. Claude's web chat gets progressively slower as a conversation grows, and it's just not built for something that runs for months. By the time I'd been using it for a few weeks, each response was taking long enough to be genuinely frustrating.

So I asked Claude to pick a name for itself (Virgil), and then built this.