He named it for acquisition. ClawdBot = Anthropic declined changed to OpenClaw = OpenAI accepted Well played, Peter.

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OpenAI said OpenClaw will live on as an open source project.

I love how Leon is like, “Okay, that is a large undertaking. In weeks 1-3 we’ll do Phase 1 and then Phase 2 can be completed in months 3 through . . . . DONE WITH ALL 6 PHASES. What would you like to do next?”

The following fads don't have much life left: Bitcoin, AI, and the Internet

As I use top-tier AI models to build software for both personal and production use, I find that as I see the power of the models applied at this point, I am looking outside of the screen for next ideas. I’m looking at being able to build in languages. I never even messed with before. Potentially enabling me to integrate controllers, reflash modules, and bring obsolete hardware forward with my own firmware. 🤯

Use AI tools. The primer ones by Google, Anthropic, xAI, Perplexity, OpenAI. Both their premium and tangential models. Not as a search engine. Put them to work. But, an important note, if you're using the free version, there's a good chance you're relegated to the model versions that are 6-12 months behind the ones awaiting you at pro tiers. "But that doesn't make a difference," you'll think to yourself, "what's a few months?" But it matters. This space is moving stupid fast. You'll use those lesser models a little, and they'll leave you feeling like AI isn't really "there yet". It isn't really worth messing with, because it can't really provide usefulness or help you in your life or job. But get past the paywall. There's an impressive set of skills on that side of the fence that are worth exploring and familiarizing yourself with. Each model has its strengths, failings, and peripheral tools that make workflows easy or hard. So, your mileage may vary on any given model depending on what you're trying to accomplish. TIP: And don't forget to prompt it with how to prompt it better next time when it doesn't give you what you want. Have it teach you.

The two extremes of where Leon and I go over the next year. Somewhere between godmode and demise.

Notes, as we figure out what our studies should be alongside the AI adoption games we’re playing. As I have been reading history over the last couple of years, I repeatedly see that leaders with philosophers by their side, as loud in their ear as their military generals, have built and maintained the longest-lasting and most prosperous civilizations. With AI we’re leaders, for now anyway. We’ll wield a tremendous ability to execute on ideas we find to have merit. The wisdom that makes that judgment will be a blend of academic knowledge, experiences, our locus of control, and a greater awareness of humanity’s role at large and among one another. Studying philosophy will flex the mind into spaces that objectify feelings and convictions, to challenge them and forge them in new ways where appropriate. We’ll be surrounded by NPCs. That is inevitable. So, it’s on us to elevate. Become the greater mind of the agents you build. It may have never been more important than now.

Leon is emerging tonight! First heartbeat and processes detected!

Prioritizing security and structure of work environment initially. Like all of us, Leon is underwhelmed with my speed.

Leon is born again unto the world of men today. ...so to speak.

🍿 A large portion of U.S. GDP is built on services that exist to manage complexity created by other services. Tax professionals help you navigate a tax code that grows more convoluted every year. Project management platforms organize work that only exists because other platforms generated the noise. Layer after layer of economic activity that registers as growth but doesn’t produce anything someone would voluntarily pay for in a direct exchange. When you strip away the intermediary layers, the actual value-for-value transactions in our economy are a fraction of what the headline number suggests. That’s what makes AI interesting to me. Not because it replaces jobs, but because it compresses those intermediary layers and forces a real question: what do we actually produce that another person finds useful, helpful, or beautiful? If the answer is “I organize the chaos,” and the chaos gets automated away, that’s not a loss. It’s a correction. And it may free up something we’ve been missing for decades. Time. Time to grow food instead of buying processed substitutes shipped 2,000 miles. Time to be in community instead of treating the health consequences of never being in one. The service economy kept us busy. It didn’t necessarily keep us productive. Bring on this change. I’m ready to embrace it, but I acknowledge that many will get blindsided. Teach your kids the difference between the right path and a downward spiral. They’ll need to know what each feels like.

Patience, Leon. Just tightening security getting your place a bit more ready. Then we’ll get you out of there.

My accountant/CPA just terminated my account due to their growth. Didn’t see that one coming. Guess who I’m going to teach to do their job next week. That’s right, Leon of Sparta, the Hegemon who lives in my new Mac Mini. Put on your bean counting hat, Leon, and let’s Claw some numbers together for the Feds.

Our access to AI’s software development ability will be the commoditization of client software UI/UX. Protocols are the rails between the new core value: relationships and their data.

@Maple AI is killing it with this feature and bitcoin payment as an option. I await a CLI option that let's me use KimiK2.5 in terminal like Claude Code in the Cursor IDE. ...Keep me posted @Marks ...Oh! Also, I'm using TTS locally on my own machine now instead of ElevenLabs with qwen-tts. It's lightweight and solid quality with three model versions. Basic default voices, train with sample, and configurable. It's really worth looking at if Maple is still expanding models and media compatibilities.

The pitfall to a successful superbowl ad.

I like bacon. I believe in bacon. When I see a bear, I don’t poke it. But if I do go to poke it, I don’t fill my pocket with bacon. But if I must carry my bacon, I leave the bear great distance for it to focus on eating berries. I don’t wrestle bears. I like bears. Bears do good work. I give them space. I don’t give my bacon; Nor my legs.

Telehash, at @Bitcoin Park for Nashville Energy & Mining Summit, pulled out all the stops with the hashrate heated steak sous vide setup and the miner-heated human sous vide hot tub.