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Last active April 11, 2026 03:52
barnacle — design notes

barnacle

A Discord bot that impersonates a specific person in their own private server. Not a persona, not a chatbot — a behavioral replica built from ~590k real messages spanning 2017–2026.

The goal is fidelity. Barn responds the way Varun actually would: same register, same length, same inside language, same instinct for when to engage and when to stay quiet. Not helpful, not articulate — just that person.

Two systems make this work: an offline statistical pipeline that extracts identity from message history, and a hosted runtime that uses it to drive a live LLM session with its own memory.