Yeah, almost all of the heavy lifting is done the compute clusters of your favorite LLM provider and e.g. PicoClaw will run on <$10 of hardware. That said imo at $599 an M4 mac mini is *a lot* of bang for the buck, I just got mine for breathing room for future – local models etc.
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Mac mini adoption concerns for OpenClaw AI testing security
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Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused 🙂 I'm definitely a bit sus'd to run OpenClaw specifically – giving my private data/keys to 400K lines of vibe coded
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Advanced AI Systems Incompatible With Current App Store Models
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The higher tiers of AI psychosis are incompatible with today’s “App Store”
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AI Progress From Autocomplete to Compilers: Software Abundance Vision
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I think this group of reactions are still fundamentally rooted in a scarcity mindset of software. 2 years ago AI was botching autocomplete, today it is almost one shotting browsers and C compilers. Where is it in 2 more? 10? 20? Software so insanely cheap and abundant that
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Config vs Skill Philosophy in AI Tools
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I’ve been meaning to check it out. I love their config vs skill philosophy, it’s new and interesting.
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LLM Agents Should Handle Apps for Non-Technical Users
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Grandma certainly shouldn’t have to know apps or that there is an app. Her LLM agent should.
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Bespoke Software Era: Personalized Health Optimization Tools
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Very interested in what the coming era of highly bespoke software might look like. Example from this morning – I've become a bit loosy goosy with my cardio recently so I decided to do a more srs, regimented experiment to try to lower my Resting Heart Rate from 50 -> 45, over
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LLMs Transform Programming Languages and Formal Methods Constraints
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I think it must be a very interesting time to be in programming languages and formal methods because LLMs change the whole constraints landscape of software completely. Hints of this can already be seen, e.g. in the rising momentum behind porting C to Rust or the growing interest
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Code optimization: reducing line count from 234 to 200
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thank you i got a little overexcited and shipped it just a bit too soon, with a few too many brush strokes, now the internet thinks it takes 234 lines but actually it only takes 200 RIP
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Simile AI Launch: Exploring LLM Personality Dimension
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Congrats on the launch @simile_ai ! (and I am excited to be involved as a small angel.)
— Andrej Karpathy (@karpathy) 12 février 2026
Simile is working on a really interesting, imo under-explored dimension of LLMs. Usually, the LLMs you talk to have a single, specific, crafted personality. But in principle, the native,… https://t.co/ObAJYvEQ8ZCongrats on the launch @simile_ai ! (and I am excited to be involved as a small angel.) Simile is working on a really interesting, imo under-explored dimension of LLMs. Usually, the LLMs you talk to have a single, specific, crafted personality. But in principle, the native,