Developers are rubbish at naming things!
The hype about Clawdbot, sorry Openclaw, piqued my interest which had been over-piqued by other things during the week just gone. So I’ve decided to install it and communicate with it via Telegram, it’s running on my Mac mini and not doing much useful yet. I’m going to give it browser search skills to keep tabs on certain technologies and their ongoing development, gathering information for me and to generate Obsidian documents for me to review periodically. It will do this whilst I sleep.
I’m very much with those of you who are terrified of losing jobs and livelihoods due to AI. I get it, I’m worried about it too but I also feel that by turning a blind eye, isn’t useful either. I’m keen to explore the technology and use it as a tool, much like a hammer and chisel can sculpt a chair, so can a specialist machine in a factory do the same job in less time.
As a software engineer I’ve found it useful but then I do find it terrifying when shown a video that’s AI generated and for all of a few seconds fooled into believing it’s real footage but the post normally drops in the 6th second, no no no this isn’t real you bastards, you’ve had me on. It’s the deceit that troubles me deeply. We are now questioning the many things we see, day to day.
However when it comes to batching tasks, agents can be very powerful.
Hubs has just been talking about this over breakfast and he's very intrigued about it. I'm sure he'd be interested to talk to you about it in Alicante
It’s definitely interesting and I’m only starting to get my head around it. Currently I’m trying to get it working with sonnet 4.5 which is one of the Claude models and I think it needs some further experimentation. I managed to get it to create some JavaScript for me via a conversation on Telegram.
Once Alicante comes around, I’ll know a lot more and we can figure out some more use cases.
We've been promised digital assistants for years, but now we are seeing 'AI' developing rapidly and not always in the right ways. I'm not sure if I need it, but people who get a lot of email etc may find uses. I've not even played much with these bots writing code, but people tell me I'm missing out. The next generation of developers will probably depend on it.
That’s the interesting thing and I can remember the early versions that were just amusing toys at best. What we have now is on a whole new level and it’s rather incredible/scary/cool all at once.
A lot of the people on my team are younger and are crazy for it!
I’m using it in order to stay ahead of the game, partly for fear that if i don’t, I’ll be retiring a lot earlier than planned.
Yeah, that will be a serious issue for working people, soon.