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Timeline: March 3 → March 16. ~13 active session days. 23 handoff docs. 251 tests. $12/month server. Half a penny per product. Two and a half weeks ago i opened my laptop in a hospital room and started experimenting with AI agents. i was trying to automate a small task. Instead i ended up building an orchestration system, a publishing pipeline, and several live projects — all running on a low-cost Linux VPS. No Kubernetes. No cluster. No expensive AI infrastructure. Just a small Linux box and a lot of software… although i experimented with several platforms before landing here, this has been the sweet spot. ...

curl -fsSL https://openclaw.ai/install.sh | bash POOF! cwclawdone phase of the evolution clawdjesteranother form it took Somewhere in between here there was kimiclaw, who was my absolute favorite! Full of life, color and zest… but she had to be… And now there’s awsbotalways asking for permission awsbot is the only one that didn’t make it to moltbook, still something in the back of my mind that i want to do… trailing thought… ...

But i knew i had to get into the Agentic AI game before the beginning of this boom closed and it normalized with mainstream culture. Openclaw had dropped a week or two ago and my anxiety to learn this was THROUGH THE ROOF! every hour that i didn’t dig in i felt exponentially more irrelevant and losing a lot of sleep. It was in the hospital, while i waited for my Moms surgery for cancer to finish, that i finally opened my laptop and started learning. I stayed in the room with her overnight - we both knocked out about 6pm. The next day, i jumped back in by her bed and became instantly obsessed with figuring things out while amazing Nurses and Drs came to check on her. i started with OpenClaw, agonized over where to host it - definitely not on my laptop! Finding the best skills, figuring out which brain to give it, how to make it autonomous in my contained environment… etc. At this point i only had a paid subscription to GPT and used all the other tools for free (Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, Kimi, DeepSeek…etc) i’ve always had a million ideas and said if i knew how to code, i’d be dangerous… and the time has come. ...