Making of

Tidbits

Small true stories from the making of Drogas, taken from the repository's history and its design records.

• It started as a meeting tool. The first commit, on 2026-10-22, was a whiteboard for the founders' calls: a guide built from two starter texts and a topic map that grew from a live transcript. The game arrived the same day, as its second screen.

• A brick of cash drew a brick. Asked for a "brick" of money, the image model drew a clay one. Photo prompts now describe cash as bills of a named denomination in strapped bundles, with a real stack's thickness.

• The hand that grew fingers. In early selfies a palm held out toward the lens grew extra fingers. Selfies are now framed from arm's length, and a hand holding something stays low, near the face.

• Four silent crashes in one day. The image server died without a word four times when a second large image model loaded beside the one another tool on the same PC keeps resident. Now, before a photo on any other model file, the server is asked to drop its models and cache first.

• A context window nobody needed. The local 27B model's own settings asked for a context window that took most of the graphics card's memory and made the desktop stutter. The largest prompt Drogas had ever sent it was 3,832 tokens. Every local call now names a smaller window.

• "With thanks, M." The reply prompt once taught sign-offs with that very example, and contacts duly signed their texts like letters: 5 closings in 23 replies. After the line was reworded to say a sign-off is an initial or a name, there were 0 in 24.

• It rained in every prompt. The offline test world carried the fact "Rain is coming all week", which every contact in it read in every prompt, so they kept bringing up the weather. The fact was removed.

• "Do it." is not a question. For a while the code that reads the boss's orders took any sentence opening with "Do" or "Have" as a question, so what a plain order like "Do it." asked for was dropped.

• Whose debt? Asked whether they owed the boss money, a contact answered the question the wrong way round in 2 of 3 live tries. A one-line note naming whose side a money question asks about now goes with such a reply, and the next 3 of 3 came back right.

• The ten-minute typing dots. A reply call that hung once held a contact "typing" for ten minutes, because it inherited the provider's ten-minute limit, sized for the meeting whiteboard's long write-ups. A reply now has 45 seconds; a typical one takes about three.