9th-grader builds Atticus, a Claude-based macOS voice assistant

Ninth-grader Saarth released Atticus, a macOS voice assistant: hold Control-Option-Space to speak a task, simple commands run locally (opening apps takes ~0.08s), while complex tasks go through claude -p with no API key needed, costing a fraction of a cent each.

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