OpenClaw

"TypeScript is really good. Sometimes the types can get really confusing and the ecosystem is a jungle. So for web stuff it's good. I wouldn't build everything in it."

"If it's something where I care about performance a lot then it's a really interesting language. And agents got so much better over the last six months from not really good to totally valid choice."

"If you build something that does inference or goes into whole running model direction, Python, very good. But then if I build stuff in Python and I want a story where I can also deploy it on Windows, not a good choice."

"I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn't make it easy to use Google without Google."

"As a general purpose model, Opus is the best. For OpenClaw, Opus is extremely good in terms of role play."

"In the last few years, many times I actually prefer Electron apps because they work and native apps often are lacking features."

"And I just typed, 'Convert this and this part to Zig,' and then let Codex run off"

"Why do I need my Eight Sleep app to control my bed when I can tell the agent to... The agent already knows where I am, so he can turn off what I don't use."

"my search bar was literally just hooking up WhatsApp to cloud code"

"I now use, I think Perplexity or Brave as providers because Google really doesn't make it easy to use Google without Google."

"I think two MacBooks are real. The main one that drives the two big screens, and there's another MacBook that I sometimes use for testing."

"I have this wide Dell that's anti-glare and you can just fit a lot of terminals side-by-side."

"I pulled in all the data and then just asked him questions like, 'What makes this friendship meaningful?'"

"And somebody sent a pull request for Discord support"

"That was back when we had GPT-4.1, with the one million context window"

"I built some agentic browser use in there. And, I mean, it's basically Playwright with a bunch of extras to make it easier for agents."

"When I build simple CLIs, I like Go. I actually don't like Go. I don't like the syntax of Go. But the ecosystem is great, it works great with agents."

"If you use SwiftUI, like the latest and greatest at Apple, and took them forever to build something to show an image from the web. Now we have async image, but some images would just not show up or be very slow."

"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."

"On Mastodon and Bluesky, I don't... I also use it less because oftentimes I got attacked for my blog posts."

"You don't need a Mac Mini to install OpenClaw. There's ways. But it really does not need to be a Mac. Use the opportunity to get yourself a new MacBook or whatever computer you use and use the old one as your server instead of buying a standalone Mac Mini."

"other things like, I don't know, Anthropic's Claude is locked in into their space"

"I wanted to change it to Rust and... I mean, I can do it"

"So I checked out the header of the file and it found that it was, like, opus so I used ffmpeg to convert it"

"and then I wanted to use whisper but it didn't had it installed"

"But then I found the OpenAI key and just used Curl to send the file to OpenAI to translate"

"It felt like Factorio times infinite"

"I mocked myself here, so just added... using GROQ to add more screens."

"Mitchell Hashimoto builds Ghostly, the terminal, and he has a really good community where there's so many other projects."

"Even Tailwind, they're used by everyone. Everyone uses Tailwind, right? And then they had to cut off 75% of the employees because they're not making money because nobody's going on the website anymore because it's all done by agents."

"Why do you need MyFitnessPal when the agent already knows where I am? So it can assume that I make bad decisions when I'm at Waffle House."

"You can be creative and think of the Cerebras deal and how that would translate into speed."

"I built one I call Trimmy, that's specifically for agentic use. When you select text that goes over multiple lines it would remove the new line so you could paste it to the terminal."

"Viptunnel, which was like a, a weekend hack project that was still very early"

"OpenClaw helped them automate a few of the tedious tasks from collecting invoices to like answering customer emails that then freed them up and like cost them a bit more joy in their life."

"I started PSPDFKit and ran it for 13 years, and it was high stress."