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I was surprised you bothered to get one working. It sounded like you already had a bespoke system doing most of what anyone would get from openclaw.

For me, aside from how bloated and vibed together it is, it helped expose agent-system design. I had been neglecting it, and probably would have waited for some company to deliver some end-to-end experience. And, most of the end-to-end experiences are like "run it on our servers and we'll own/manage all your session memory without the ability to export."

I suspect the moat/lockin these companies seek is our session memory. At least, it's closest thing I've seen to something that might keep folks from switching.

145 sats \ 7 replies \ @optimism 9h
I was surprised you bothered to get one working.

I said I would, so then I'm obligated by my word, even if I don't need it! I also want to have an opinion about it, so I need to (a) hack it and (b) run it for a while. Which is my problem right now. Nothing it can do will really help me solve something I haven't solved in a much more blissful way than the yolo vibe coders can offer! But I still want to have an informed opinion... I'm sure something will come to mind.

While I'm doing this playing, I'm having claude build me a bespoke data/document lake system [1] Maybe I can connect it to that and know everything about everything I care about... like a uniform interface to my meatspace memory backup/aide 🤔

I suspect the moat/lockin these companies seek is our session memory.

YES! Because then you can tune. I largely suspect that the training data for Claude post-4.0 is 100% the session logs: what we use it for, how we use it, where the friction is experienced, where the deadlocks happen... This is why it's still a dumb af bot sometimes when you do something audacious.

  1. At which it is failing hard on the details rn fwiw - feels like there's some regression in Claude code atm, started noticing odd responses and more errors yesterday - or maybe they nerf'd it coming out of Friday with some tears in the ego? Too early to tell but I'm about to write some things manually because the back and forth is making me go nuts - My "openness" tracker says I have a PR open for a little over 4h30m now. That's unheard of! ↩

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227 sats \ 6 replies \ @k00b 8h
I said I would, so then I'm obligated by my word, even if I don't need it!

opti is lawful good.

I'm having claude build me a bespoke data/document lake system

The datalake bit is really neat. Like a digital collection representing all your tastes.

stands up I need more hardware.

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224 sats \ 2 replies \ @Aardvark 8h

What a callback.

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256 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8h

~lol I'm looking for excuses to test search. This test went well. But failed for finding uber eats prediction market earlier.

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It was in a video, I believe, not in text

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124 sats \ 2 replies \ @optimism 8h
stands up I need more hardware.

Currently 300MB RAM idle, but I'm giving the embedding model (Qwen3 locally) 8GB. Since RAM ain't cheap rn, probably cheaper to just use OpenAI's embedder.

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101 sats \ 1 reply \ @k00b 8h
probably cheaper to just use OpenAI's embedder

I'd pay the cost of 8GB of RAM to avoid giving OpenAI stuff that I don't have to as an ineffective protest.

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124 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 8h

Yeah that's why I'm willing to kill random processes just to make sure I have the 8GB of unified memory available. lol.

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