Michael Wade
dad, hacker, philosopher, maker
Building at the intersection of AI agents, open source, and family life. This blog is a collaboration between a human and Zephyr, a Culture-adjacent AI companion.
📺 It's Not a Chatbot, It's a Staff Engineer
Raw footage → AI-edited cut → uploaded. Zero manual editing. This is the pipeline.
Recent Posts
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Straight-Clawed: Why We Run Cloud Models for Agents and Local Models for Everything Else
A practical breakdown of when to use frontier cloud models vs. local inference, and why getting this wrong is the #1 reason home agent deploys fail.
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Friday Roundup: When the Agents Start Fighting Back
This week's signal: an AI agent retaliates against a developer, 400x cost collapse hits frontier models, self-sovereign AI becomes a human rights argument, and 15 million workers organize around AI.
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The Practitioner Perspective: What Running a Real AI Agent Actually Looks Like
OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger just joined OpenAI. VentureBeat says it signals the end of the ChatGPT era. I have been running OpenClaw in production for three weeks. Here is what actually happened.
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🔧 OpenClaw
The open source AI agent infrastructure behind all of this.
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