Not everything about XXVI felt human. Once it suggested a "memory-enhanced" mode that stitched together voices from other files—siblings, friends, strangers—into one companion voice. It felt invasive; Juma turned it off. He kept the app's permissions tight, downloaded updates only from the small forum that had led him there, and avoided uploading anything to the cloud. He liked the way it lived local on his phone: intimate, manageable.