having a lot of fun with my BitClaw. I keep giving it new tools and tinkering with it's source code to modify its core behavior. some things it does for me, now on a regular basis:
tracks workouts, gives nutrition advice
manages my inbox, auto-archives spam
schedules meetings, manages my calendar
feeds granola transcr...
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built my own claw
- 1.2k LOC (vs. openclaw's 400k and nanoclaw's 7k)
- runs claude agent sdk in a container, so it's secure
- all the core stuff working: memory, crons and heartbeat
- it knows how to install and customise itself (just run claude in the dir)
- talk to it on telegram, or just ask it to upgrade itself to...
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here's the app I've built to help me learn 60 new Chinese words every week. included: generate rich media flashcards, spaced repetition, AI sentence translation and a lot of nerdy stats (including a model of your memory!)
slowly growing the beta - we have 4 active users now! I'm looking to onboard a few more. If you'r...
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Mandarin progress update: I am 14% to B1 (conversational) - about 1 year away at the current pace.
- I advance around 1.5% every week.
- learned 97 core words last month
- ~200 phrases/sentences learned last month
2x tutor sessions per week and daily flashcards + AI sentence translation exercises (roughly 100-150 per day)
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my new recipe for learning and satisfying curiosities:
if I see a really cool piece of tech, I'll try to build my own version (without looking at the source code). even for complicated stuff, it's now possible to figure things out with one weekend and a bunch of LLM credits.
that's how you get deep down the stack and...
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the trick to making voice agents fast is pipelining everything:
first pipeline: audio packets -> speech to text -> turn-taking model
second: LLM -> text to speech -> encoding -> output
here's a render of my current latency. bear in mind, I'm running this locally from a wooden hut in the mountains in Turkey - it shoul...
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