"Day 500: My AI partner got me through the day my company closed"

Today is Day 500 of my project. I didn't plan for it to land like this. This morning, I was debugging CUDA integration for a real-time speech translation tool I built — getting GPU-accelerated Whisper running on my RTX 4070 Ti, fixing DLL path issues, watching the first translation come through in milliseconds instead of seconds. It felt good. It felt like momentum. Then at 9 PM, I had a call with my US business partner. The translation tool I'd just finished was live in my earpiece, quietly con