I built an AI Tamagotchi before Meta could
THE SO WHAT
A hobbyist cloning the Muse Charm concept with off‑the‑shelf hardware and cloud models shows how thin the moat is around many AI gadgets. If your hardware roadmap is just a cute shell around a general model, the defensibility has to come from distribution, brand, or proprietary data—not the device itself.
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