Dispatches
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Claude Cowork Still Feels Handcuffed
I found myself saying today that, for as big a leap forward as Cowork is, it still feels handcuffed to me beside Claude Code. For anyone who hasn't kept up…
Testing Karpathy's Autoresearch
Wow. I checked whether it was April Fools' Day before I read it. The "it" is autoresearch, Andrej Karpathy's new open-source project, which VentureBeat covered…
Worth an Hour of Your Time
Gosh — if you haven't tried any kind of AI-assisted work in an environment like Lovable, that's worth an hour or two of your time today. Not next quarter.…
Now What Do You Plug Into the Orchestrator
Remote is great for the vibe coders. I suspect OpenClaw is still better for the vibe workers — which is everyone else. Remote, if it's Anthropic's Remote…
AI speaks only with its user and other AI
A cardinal rule, perhaps, of AI-assisted operations: the AI speaks only with its user and with other AI. Personal assistant to personal assistant. Lawyer to…
Do not put your company accounts on OpenClaw
I built one of these for my brother. He calls it "Franklin," and says it's the best employee he's ever had. I'm working with "Portia," my own version, and it's…
Running Full AI Models Locally
Whether you can run a full AI model at home depends entirely on what "full" means. A 7B model? Probably a laptop with as little as 32GB of RAM — a $1500…
The Math on Running Your Own AI
This is a matter of consequence, and the arithmetic fits on a napkin. I pay about $1,000 a month for access to AI, and I still ration myself. For scale — the…
Some of the team is going at a snail's pace, others are lapping them 10x a second
Every team with vibe coders working alongside traditional coders is struggling with the same thing today. Engineering teams are trying to run a relay race in…
My Dumb ClawdBot Out-Coded Me
My "dumb" version of ClawdBot finished coding late Friday night, and I'm pretty sure it did a better job vibe coding than I could — though I'm far less…
Spinning Up an Assistant for Every Family Member
I've been dying for something like this. Clawdbot, for anyone who hasn't run into it yet, is Peter Steinberger's open-source assistant, first published in…
Install Claude Code in VS Code
Install Claude Code in VS Code, and change how you work. That's perhaps the most important recommendation I've ever given. I set my father up in Claude Code…