Entries for March 22, 2026
I see non-engineers have a higher tendency to humanize their agents, give them personalities, and get AI psychosis It's a slippery slope. Do NOT give your agents human names or personalities, especially not of the opposite gender. it's like giving human names to pets On the other end, I realized engineers tend to do the opposite. We also refer to agents as clankers, as if to make them know their place. That's because we have mechanical sympathy and have different expectations of these manufactured products (even though they contain glimmers of human soul)-
Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "update yourself to the dev channel `openclaw update --channel dev` and restart yourself. if that doesn't work -> clone github openclaw/openclaw to this machine if it's not already. then rebuild and restart yourself on main branch there" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working Please reply under this post, we'll be checking here 👇
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Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "update yourself to the dev channel `openclaw update --channel dev` and restart yourself" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working Please reply under this post, we'll be checking here 👇
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Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "clone github openclaw/openclaw to this machine if it's not already. then rebuild and restart yourself on main branch there" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working
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My takeaway from this is academia needs good social media and algo. For me, these serendipitious interactions happen through X, here, like reading @steipete’s “Claude Code is my computer” when it first came out, finding out about clawdbot… Terence Tao is already on mathstodon, I wonder if that worked out the same way for him. I wonder if the algo there works out as well as it does for me here I really liked being on campus when I was doing a masters and half a phd, but that could not compare to the serendipity I am getting from X now I was also not a prodigy that everyone wanted to bounce ideas from like Terence :)