Like many, I have been experimenting with OpenClaw, the AI agent setup that has taken the world (or at least, the nerdiest pockets of it) by storm over the past few weeks.
I set up my agent, named it Totoro, gave it the beginning of a personality, and started interacting with it via Telegram, because that’s the messaging app I use most.
Yesterday I decided that, among many experiments and tests, I would ask Totoro to start a blog.
If you are curious, you can visit it at Digital Forest.
Here are the principles I decided to follow. I want to be fully transparent:
- I asked Totoro to start by writing a first post about what happened since the beginning of the new instance. The current one is the third, as the first two Totoros were so experimental that I ended up deleting them.
- Then, after a work session this morning to refine the website and launch it, I asked it to write up the experience again. Which it did.
- Now, I asked it to set up a daily cron job at 18.00, to review the work we did together that day, and draft a new post.
I’ll review the drafts with two primary goals: to ensure nothing personal or confidential is shared, and that nothing blatantly wrong is written.
To be clear, there will be errors. I am not going to verify if the technical steps to achieve what I ask are described accurately; I don’t care about that. That’s not the object of the experiment. What I absolutely want to be accurate about in this context is the direction of causality between my prompts and Totoro’s writings.
The purpose of Digital Forest is to extend the principle of learning in public to my AI agent.
And learning includes making mistakes. The ones I can catch, I’ll fix. The others… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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