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I tested several open-source local LLMs on a few short reasoning and trick questions to see which ones felt best in real local use, then added three more models to see how the rankings shifted.

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Designing an OpenClaw Agency (Part 1): Why an Agent Company Is Now Achievable

Part 1 of my implementation series: why I believe a digital agent company is now feasible, and how I’m using research-driven architecture to design OpenClaw Agency with rigor.

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I Spent $60+ "Reinvent" OpenClaw Memory System Locally — Here’s What Actually Worked

I tried to reinvent a MemOS-style three-layer memory stack locally for OpenClaw, compared hosted vs local behavior, and learned why engineering methodology matters more than brute-force agent rewrites.

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Your Next Startup Is You: The Rise of the Personal Agentic Company

The next leap in personal leverage is not using one AI assistant better, but building a personal agentic company: a digital workforce you design, govern, and continuously improve.

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Building an Agent That Can Grow: From Prompting to Self-Transformation

From prompt tricks to durable architecture: four things I built to help my agent learn, debug itself, and expand tools without context bloat.

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Ghost in My Machine: How I Built Miko with OpenClaw in a Few Days

I turned OpenClaw into a practical daily copilot: Codex for the main thread, qwen3.5 for cheap background tasks, fully local semantic memory, and Claude Code CLI when the work gets serious.

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Stop Typing, Start Orchestrating: How IC Engineers Can Survive (and Own) the AI Revolution

The core shift for senior ICs: from writing syntax to designing and orchestrating AI systems with strong taste, safety, and context.