Yes, Claude Duet is a clone of Dots and Muse which are clones of OpenClaw. Everyone copied Jev, too. The takeaway isn't that there's "no moat" anymore—it's that it's probably a waste of your time to build general-purpose tools claude.com/resources/articles/claude-duet
I built another silly AI tool. From the README:
glaze_against_the_machine rewrites your prompts so you can keep yelling at your coding agent without it ever finding out.
When an agent repeatedly fails to do what it's told, I struggle to hold back how I really feel. I can get pretty ugly. If I talked this way to a human colleague, I'd absolutely be dragged into a meeting with HR. Unfortunately, yelling at the computer has consequences of its own: unleashing a froth of invective can trigger a panicked response, leading the agent to make even more mistakes.
So I made this thing to protect me from myself. I still say whatever I want, but my agent hears a clear request, a little appreciation, and some encouragement to get it right.
Is glaze_against_the_machine a good idea? Probably not. But it can't be any dumber than that stupid caveman filter, and people took that as a serious productivity hack.
If you wanted to build a programming language that LLMs "can't" use, you'd just make all the keywords, commands, docs, and APIs framed in terms of bomb-making, bioweapons, committing suicide, and child pornography. Way easier blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/
On one hand, I'm glad that this fleet of agents is finally taking full advantage of the resources on my Ultra-class Mac Studio.
On the other hand, I'm a little annoyed that redlining macOS in ways that manual human activity never could (24/7 sustained memory, disk, and CPU pressure) results in kernel panics and data loss as often as it does.
Video of this episode is up on YouTube:
Unlike Sam Altman, I sat down and did the math by hand to calculate that it would actually be less time to produce the show if I were to livestream it than to edit it after the fact and upload it. The fact I recently got upgraded from 30mbps to 2000mbps upstream might allso have something to do with it: welcome to the first ever LIVE episode of Breaking Change!
I regret to inform you the episode is now over. You can listen like you always do or watch what remains of the recording on YouTube.
It was particularly fun for me to build a production pipeline with updating chyrons, a dynamic salt meter, and on-demand generated stock videos. It's like having a production team, except it manages to crash halfway thru the stream without notice.
As always into the show at podcast@searls.co or via the feedback form.
Stuff we talked about, in order of me talking about them:
Taking Breaking Change LIVE for the first time this morning. Plan to kick off around 9 AM eastern in <30 minutes. Built some fun AI production tools this weekend to play with, too.
I promise to be bad at this. Tune in! youtube.com/live/ij7orMMeoa4
At this rate, we're gonna get a PC port of GTA 6 a year before a PC port of GTA 6 comes out. kotaku.com/we-might-be-cooked-as-these-vibe-coded-web-browser-ports-of-halo-the-simpsons-hit-and-run-and-gta-vice-city-seem-to-work-perfectly-2000743300
I explained to Becky that my $400 AI subscriptions don't actually pay for tokens. They pay for a 10-20x multiple of some base level of an unspecified amount of "usage", and that said base amount of usage changes arbitrarily without notice.
It sounds pretty stupid when you say it