AI Agents Run Amok: Clawdbot –> Moltbot –> OpenClaw

It looks like we've settled on a name...

What was called Clawdbot, and renamed to Moltbot, is finally called OpenClaw; and it's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing. 

It's doxed people and scammed them out of money very quickly. This video explains the details that moved markets, today, such as Apple and Cloudflare stock. 

Claude for Coding a Website

I was listening to last Friday's Hard Fork tech podcast where the two hosts were discussing how they're saving $89/year by no longer hosting their personal websites on Squarespace; instead they using Claude Code.

Today, I tried Claude Code out myself to modernize my personal website, joemoreno.com, which I originally made with iWeb nearly 20 years ago. Its design, look, and feel were long in the tooth. iWeb, which was discontinued about five years later, was Apple's answer to Microsoft FrontPage. These two tools allowed consumers to create static webpages with the ease of creating a Keynote or PowerPoint presentation. 

To make this happen, I simply used Claude from a web browser along with this prompt:

Take the content in these files at http://joemoreno.com/index.html and recreate the same website but with a modern look and feel.

Claude then coded for less than five minutes, and boom, it was done. I could render the website both inside the Claude environment and also publish it with a public URL hosted on Claude. 

I then downloaded the index.html, which had the HTML and CSS in a single file, uploaded it to my AWS S3 bucket and I was done.

Now that was quick and easy. 

AI Meets Expectations: Personal Turing Test

Left: What I got. Right:What it should look like

I’ve had two personal tests that I’ve applied to every new AI model, and for years none of them passed.

One test was to generate an image of an absinthe fountain with glasses and absinthe spoons. Last year, AI got this right. 

The other test was to take a multi-hours MP3 that I recorded at monthly jazz jam sessions and break it into individual tracks based on either silence between the songs or applause. This week, ChatGPT finally got it right, but I have yet to see success with other AI models. 

Coding Tips: Stop Vibe Coding – Start Writing Elegant Code

Know someone whose code is a bit sloppy or too vibey? This video might be just what they need.

ChatGPT's Atlas Web Browser

Yesterday, ChatGPT released a standalone Web browser, called Atlas, with ChatGPT integrated into it. You can download it here for macOS only. Other operating systems are coming soon. 

As a web browser, it seems OK. 
But it really shines when you're on a web page, like a specific restaurant on Yelp, and ask it how long it'll take you to drive there.
"What time should I leave to arrive here by 6:15 today, accounting for live traffic updates?"

Also, since you're logged into your own ChatGPT account, your Atlas website queries are saved in ChatGPT. 

Perhaps, one day, Apple will integrate AI into their operating systems so it can answer questions like this based on what you're looking at on your screen. 

AI Calendar Invites

I live near a religious facility and they recently left a door hanger on my front door to let me know about upcoming events that will create parking issues in my residential neighborhood.

I uploaded a photo of the door hanger to ChatGPT and asked it to create a ZIP file of calendar invites for each event.

Boom! It worked perfectly. I downloaded a ZIP file with more than two dozen calendar invites that I added to my calendar.

Very impressive and helpful. 

No, That's Not a 10 Minute Call

I just came across this old screenshot of a 10-hour conference call from 2012, when I worked at Wyndham Hotel Group in corporate IT. (Wyndham owns about two dozen brands like Days Inn, Ramada, Super 8, Howard Johnson, etc.)

Every website deployment was a major endeavor requiring a separate deployment for each brand throughout the night, followed by a quick "smoke test" by QA before moving on to the next brand.

This painful process took many hours. In this case, we began the conference call at 10 PM on a Sunday night and we were on the phone for ten hours straight.

Would you ever believe that AT&T could keep a call connected, without dropping, for ten hours?

Amazon Fulfillment Warehouse Tour

This afternoon, I took a one-mile walking tour of an Amazon fulfillment warehouse that’s mostly run by robots, here in San Diego. This facility spans 3,330,000² feet, employs 4,500 people, and operates 23/7 in three shifts with one hour of daily downtime.

I highly recommend taking one of these tours which are free and open to the public in nearly 20 states: Amazon Tours.

The most fascinating part was watching the robots disappear into the darkness as they moved shelves of Amazon products since they don’t need light to see where they’re going.

Sorry, no photos allowed.

AI for Eating

Last night, I was at an Italian restaurant and I wanted to know how these two sauces would look on my cheese stuffed gnocchi.

These photos the are AI-generated images I received after uploading the menu photo above and asking what both dishes would look like.

AI-generated Images

I ordered the second option, the Gnocchi Ragu della Nonna, and what I received matched the image perfectly.

My dinner was spot on

AI for Data Science with San Diego Data

I asked some popular AI chatbots to analyze the open source data that San Diego provides.

I started off analyzing the data for parking meters, since that's a hot button issue for the city, recently. Two separate chatbots gave me similar answers when I asked what's the most amount of money that these 10,978 parking meters could generate if they were in use continuously for the times they're in effect. The answers came back remarkably close: $75,772.75 and $75,796.75. That's an impressive $24 difference between the two AIs. Close enough for me. 

Crimes committed within half a mile of a local high school

Next, I downloaded the 190 MB file of crimes committed in San Diego since 2020 and asked it to plot on a map all of the crimes committed within half a mile of a local high school. I was genuinely impressed with the static HTML file it generated which included listing the crime with each pin. Upon digging deeper, I noticed that I didn't see my police report for my stolen catalytic converter from three years ago. But after a bit of investigation, I realized it wasn’t included in the SDPD’s dataset, so the omission wasn’t the AI’s fault.