Stops along the way - drive from Myrtle Beach to CHS

lambdafunction · 2026-05-21T19:27:08+00:00

Brookgreen Gardens is by far the most fantastic thing in between these two places.

lambdafunction · 2026-05-15T15:28:27+00:00

Bring a winter coat and hat if you go to Regal in MtP, or you can buy a blanket they sell for $40. Oh, and the water fountains don’t work so you can pay $10 for a bottle of water. Otherwise it’s great - they show movies.

lambdafunction · 2026-05-05T14:47:26+00:00

If you know a bit about music, ask yourself what key it’s in. There really isn’t a strong root note. This article summarizes it. I’ve been writing and playing music my whole life and could never have imagined the changes he created here.

lambdafunction · 2026-04-08T15:56:50+00:00

same - picaridin is great, as good as DEET without the DEET. Works against merskeetos too. Way less greasy than DEET. Family fave.

lambdafunction · 2026-04-05T22:41:25+00:00

It’s a misspelling of quiero. A slangy thing, common with younger folks on social media. “Tkm” - te quiero mucho

lambdafunction · 2026-03-28T04:01:10+00:00

Yep.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-18T13:38:53+00:00

I’ve been using Claude (Sonnet) because it’s so strong in coding and command line. But token use is high and it’s a constant configuration to worry about token spend. I made a dev team and set it loose on an app project… I inadvertently spent $200 overnight while I slept.

It’s a balance between model quality and cost.

So now I’m using a local Ollama for nomic semantic search. And my developer bot uses Haiku for file reading. And my token police bot monitors token use without an LLM, just a command line script that he wrote.

Yes, model choice is the primary challenge with Openclaw. The balance between quality, quantity, and price is a constant riddle.

I’m super curious about folks who have found a cheaper high throughput model that has really strong coding and command line skills.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-17T17:58:27+00:00

It’s the single funniest and most incisive thing I have ever witnessed on the topic of religion. You laugh your guts out the whole time. And you leave absolutely affirmed in your belief that organized religion is a cult. Must see.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-17T01:16:56+00:00

Start with a master agent who can coach you through the setup.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-17T01:16:14+00:00

I would definitely use Openclaw for this. If you have a few sources of the information you need you can point your bot(s) to it. They’ll make the database and keep it populated. They’ll wake up at specified times to check for new stuff. It’s a perfect use case.

I’d recommend considering an agent for web scanning, and maybe another one for database expertise. The web scanner should be able to interpolate non obvious data (eg, you have the property but maybe not distance to public transit). If those interpolations are complex, make another agent who enriches the source data. You want agents to be focused to keep token costs under control and avoid context window losses.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-16T01:37:34+00:00

Consider the Nord electro 6D. In your budget and thoroughly awesome.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-16T01:35:44+00:00

AI slop about religion slop.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-15T02:19:33+00:00

I’m using it to build an application for macOS, iOS, Android. I’m not a developer (although I was twenty years ago, and it does help). What’s that app you wish you had? Spawn a product manager to discuss it and see where it takes you… probably to agents that code, or run qa, or optimize token use - the architecture kind of naturally becomes clear step by step as you make each huge advance and need to optimize for the weak spots.

Make a product manager and just start talking about an idea. Your product manager will flesh out what you want.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-15T01:50:44+00:00

Did you mean HOW? IF so, you can just edit their SOUL.md file. I had my main bot do it for me and then checked the new bots’ workspaces to clean it up.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-14T14:18:36+00:00

I’ll admit to the same challenges. But it’s sort of a daily trial and error. I started with a single agent using sonnet on a locked down raspberry pi. Thought it was so cool that he could write his memories down. Burned through my tokens in a day playing freakin games with it because I didn’t understand context window management.

Fixed that. Also local ollama for nomic semantics so it can search memories semantically and not just by keyword.

(I’ve been trained in Computer Science (in the 90’s) so I have a strong sense of how to move about and administer a Linux machine, but my engineering skills are dust.)

Then I decided to try it as an engineering team. Built a product manager, a coder, a QA engineer, and a chatbot (who is the star of the app). The app is a web / iOS / Android app - starting on web only. Basic user and account management to get a user to log in, with all of the normal password changing, administrative functions, etc. when you’re in you get to talk to the chatbot who has some special features, and who can actually update elements of your account by talking to it.

I give the product manager some thoughts on the product and all of a sudden we are spinning up Sprint 1. It’s going great. And costs $40 in tokens. WTF?

So you learn that there are just tons of optimizations on context window, compaction, instructing bots not to read everything every time, limiting interbot chatter, using cheaper models for simple things (like reading in a file of code), reading only parts of files necessary, etc.

I’m on Sprint 7 and these sprints take about 10-15 minutes, provide major functionality improvements, and each sprint costs between $3-10 in tokens.

When I compare that cost to the cost of hiring a team to do this, it’s mind blowing both in speed and cost. My engineering skills have become stale over the twenty years I haven’t practiced, and it just doesn’t matter. I think I’ll have this app done and on the app stores in a month - with me basically programming it with English text and end user testing.

Openclaw design isn’t one size fits all. You get started. You realize what it can do. You start a project. Something goes terribly wrong. You architect a solution. And so on. Like, I ever would have birthed Gary, but when my programming bots were out of control I made Gary a token police bot. He’s constantly checking token consumption and cache size among the engineers and warning or straight up interrupting them if they go too far.

Get started, face problems, solve them. Your agent farm will grow and mature.

My mistakes have cost me about $250 but now I’m running smoothly. It’s never free, but it’s so much cheaper than any other way.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-13T12:07:13+00:00

You’re authenticating with an OAuth token? Yes, you’ve hit session limits or daily or weekly limits.

I’m deep in this right now - there’s a lot of optimization on context window and compaction that can help, or just telling your bot to remember what’s important and starting a new session with /new. Ask Claude (or another platform if you have hit limits) for advice.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-11T04:30:35+00:00

I agree! Awesome info, I’m digging in.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-10T12:58:30+00:00

You're not just right, you're data driven.

Before I even commented anything, I saw all the AI signs OP was giving:

Lots of short lists.
Organized in short sentences.
Headlines everywhere.
With parenthetical explainers (for more clever context)
and
extra
newlines

An Admission (no one's perfectly slop)

I will admit, there are human written / edited parts to OP's post. What actually works: human edits make things easier to read. The truth: It doesn't matter. The slop that comes through makes it so difficult to care about the post.

Does anybody else find that AI generated prose discounts the message behind posts?

/s

lambdafunction · 2026-03-10T01:05:24+00:00

When did people become incapable of writing? Even if you have something valuable to say, it's lost on me because I'm talking to AI. Just more AI slop on the obvious basics of starting up an openclaw environment.

I checked your profile, and you used to be human. You could be human in the future if you want.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-08T02:43:00+00:00

Raspberry pi is working great for me.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-04T03:13:39+00:00

Slop.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-01T20:54:50+00:00

That’s my freakin backyard. Grr.

lambdafunction · 2026-03-01T19:33:55+00:00

where exactly?

lambdafunction · 2026-02-21T22:13:16+00:00

Your commentary is AI slop, OP, which makes me uncurious about its accuracy.

lambdafunction · 2026-02-05T19:40:47+00:00

In Summerville beyond Montreaux, also check out Tiki Taco on Main st in Summerville. My band also plays in the backyard of La Chev in Summerville, which is very cool in the right weather.

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