January 2026: To Tokyo & more AI - Bryan's Briefing
January 2026: To Tokyo & more AI - Bryan's Briefing
Hey friend,
I'm writing this while on my flight to Tokyo from Shanghai. After 3 months in Osaka, a few days in Kobe, and two weeks in Shanghai, I will now stay in Tokyo for a bit more than a month.
Still have my Working Holiday visa for Japan, but am planning to work on my ongoing projects or some other ideas of mine. Also hoping that my current freelance project goes well, the only thing that brought in money for me recently.
🌱 Cool Content I Made
- Ways to build a website - Updated this page about all the different ways a website can be created.
- Every blog post from other people I have shared until now - I wrote a blog post about all the blog posts written by other people that I have shared in this newsletter until now.
❤️ Cool Stuff By Others
One thing I wanted to share was about Clawdbot, but I couldn't find one specific source to share. But Clawdbot is very interesting.
So what if AI had some of its usual shackles removed? Clawdbot is exploring the idea of a tool where LLMs can freely control themselves, freely choosing what code to run and continuously adjusting itself without human input until a certain goal is reached. No safe guards. Ask it to do something, choose any provider, any chat service and start chatting with a local AI system that has full access. It can install anything and modify itself. It can chat like a human in any (group) chat you want, use your pc like a human would, without you having to interfere. Great experiment, very scary.
It also led to the fun viral story of an AI bot writing a blog post hating a human for denying their commit to an open-source project. The implications of this are dystopian.
🍿 Videos
- Google pushing for inauthentic AI written websites & Becoming ranked #1 on Google through this horrible approach by Louis Rossmann
📝 Blog Posts
- How to write a good spec for AI agents by Addy Osmani
- AI in Management by Ethan Mollick
- How we code has changed by Andrej Karpathy
- Mitchell Hashimoto's AI Adoption Journey by Mitchell Hashimoto
