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.
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