Howdy!

• It recently hit me that E is getting old enough that it’s a matter of time before she can find and read my personal website. What kind of questions would she have? What kind of answers will she get, without asking?

• I’m so grateful for the replies last time! I didn’t hear any explicit yes/nos to “daily standups”. I had a couple back and forths but nothing that made sense to re-share here, this time. But I like when online things become offline-ish things! So thanks for that!

• I’ve been working on a “little” text-based, web based “mech battle” game. Lots of procedurally generated items, and an in-real-life component for collectible unlocks. Like Pokémon meets Borderlands. Some of the core aspects turned out bigger than I thought. I would have warned anyone else that that would be the case 😅😅. — I’ll be sure to mention it here when I can invite some friends to an “alpha test”.

• If you’re a subscriber to any usage-based AI services, you’ve probably seen the ubiquitous trend on their pricing pages. It goes something like this: “$2/mo for some usage. $20/mo for way more usage. $299/mo for even more usage!” — how is this okay? Why are we tolerating this kind of opaque — shady, even! — pricing? I know the industry is growing. And mostly it’s due to the constant change and unpredictability of underlying usage and input/output. But man, it seems weird.

• Did I mention that Claire Vo has a How I AI episode that is one of the best intros + tech-lite dives into OpenClaw/Clawdbot pros/cons and setup? I’ve been sending this link around a bit lately.

I wrote this from the passenger seat, during a several-hour drive.

Changing seats, So hitting send!