Infra eng leader, SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Obsessed with history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious creatures.
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Jake Gold
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I guess it is a big deal.
One thing (almost) everyone can be happy about is that this generation of AI technology isn't owned by any one company, or even any one country, and at this point never could be.
Maybe the best reason to be optimistic about the benefits accruing to users in ways that ultimately leave us better off.
Most people will prefer talking to computers by a lot.
Not because anyone will force them to.
Because typing commands and navigating apps will start to feel incredibly tedious by comparison.
This is an open source effort, not in any way proprietary, and completely open to contributions from any organization.
The core feature of systems like OpenClaw is that they make it possible to run full coding agents asynchronously in the background with sufficient access to actually do things for you.
For all the other features and the hype, we're basically just talking about what I'm calling 'agentic cron jobs'.
When I *finally* remember to play music after 4 hours of silent focused work.
25 years ago, I was a teenager sitting in my room with CRT monitors and a microphone, using CVoiceControl on Slackware Linux to run commands by shouting into the mic in a poor attempt at building "The Computer" from Star Trek TNG.
"ELL ESS!"
"HOME!"
I'm having *a lot* more success these days!
Having a UI element that constantly shimmers and changes without conveying any new information is silly.
```
Please update my Claude settings with:
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": ["Working"]
}
"prefersReducedMotion": true
```
Apple announced major accessibility updates powered by Apple Intelligence, including new capabilities for VoiceOver, Magnifier, and Voice Control.
