I Built a Fully Local Voice AI Agent — Here's What Broke (and How I Fixed It)

Most AI demos work perfectly — until you try to use them like a real system. I built this as part of an AI/ML internship assignment, but it quickly turned into something deeper. What started as "just get voice input working with an LLM" turned into debugging audio pipelines, fixing session state bugs I didn't know existed, and figuring out how to make an LLM understand follow-up commands without losing context. No OpenAI APIs. No usage costs. Just Python, Whisper, LLaMA 3, and a lot of time in...