Open Claw for Ya’. The first in the Emerald City
Disclaimer: Everything below is a mix of what I observed and heard during the event. The goal isn’t to pinpoint "who exactly said what," but to share (usually) an outsider's view and overall perspective on these industries. I’m not here to act as a definitive firsthand source—readers should do their own research. I hope this inspires you to attend events, explore new industries, and hear what leaders are presenting. These notes combine my observations with thoughts on how things could run smoother and how ideas connect (IMO). I’m not an expert, you know? Just hanging out in the room with them. Enjoy!Topics: AI, Programming, Agentic, Technology, Coding, Customization, Developing, Automation, Time Sesitive, Efficiency
Woo hoooo!!! Let’s learn about the hottest trending, epically marketed brand-new AI around, Open Claw!!! What is it? What makes it different than others? Honestly, I’m not exactly sure. It’s why I got myself into this event (literally sent a letter to the hosts, like “I know I don’t meet your requirements for the type of person to attend - i dont have a github account - but please can I join!?!?” and yes!! Approval granted.) I am so excited to learn and its the best to learn from real people doing real things. The AI Queen is here!!
Why Attend: I’ve heard so much about Open Claw and don’t quite get it. So it’s gonna be awesome to see how people use it and see if it can help my business. It turns out to be like 6 months old, yet I feel so behind for not understanding it hahaha. So, that’s kinda great, and I just love to keep up with top tech and see if anything is a good fit for my goals. Let’s learn, yay!!!!
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Notes from the Event:
Arrive and the networking is amazing. Super interesting people.
Eveyone talks a while and then it’s time to begin. There are like 30 people here.
The first meetup for OpenClaw in Seattle.
woo hoooo!!! hahhahaha
Brought everyone together tonight. Selective about who we choose. They blew through 50 signups. If you have friends really good at this, invite them.
I’m so happy to be here hahahah. Like grateful, deserving, but just on that cusp of qualified. :)
Theres a variety of people who have used it. Some never used it, some have been using it for ages
Lol “ages” - its been open half a year haha
The best part of the night is talking to everyone here.
Hands up if you used it before
Who has built a skill?
Who has scheduled a task, something on repeat?
Who has tried other agents and why?
Someone says they built their own agent cause they din’t trust the other ones and they were too slow.
Another guy builds onto of Open AI and can control the security.
Another guy built his own for his organization at Meta. AN entire suite of agents.
Wow. An entire suite!!!
How’s Claude cowork? Anything better?
Who has hooked up primary email or calendar?
Some peopel raise their hands and he says those are the brave peopel.
Any problems or massive wins?
Who has automatic deployment of new claws?
Who has a dashboard of claws?
Is anyone worried about token costs? Blowing through subscriptions? What are you doing?
Open AI.
LOL one guy in the back is super confident in AI
One guy said that Claude is recreating limits. And what if hte frontier models heavily limit the tools we use?
How any people are using codex? 5 peopel
Anyone using other models?
One guy says they use internal gemini and open AI’s api… gpu cluster, moana,
Run an o-llama with with gpt2.5 for heartbeats
hahaha omg this wording.
They changed it on Saturday so how much more do tehy move to other LLMs or other open source models?
Finding that balance of which was us which models.
A tiny vector mini model to store memory management on CPU (with QMD?) idk I forget
Lol I love this conversation it’s so nerdy but awesome.
One guy uses computer 2 for some tasks and all the coding is handed off to cursor. All coding goes to cursor CLI.
ChatGPT plus is for (idk what)
Anyone else?
Okay let’s talk about how we use it briefly.
The way we use it here, deploy open claw running
They have them on AWS and can deploy out of their own dashboard. Heartbeat on all of them. Running sones and it’s going to change. But we run a variety of them for a variety of reasons
OJ = chief o f staffPartner manager and product manager
Run all of the on AWS. Do you know what tales scale.
- if you’re not using it, its convenient to connect your open claw and take it off the public internet.
Someone asks if we’ve thought of running open claw on elastic srrvers? We have and deploy some through EKS but it felt like heavy lifting for something liek this.
I really like the integration with the web browser, haven’t been able to figure out how to deploy an AWS and get hte web browser experience. They built it
Thats a comment from an audience guy (the one who invited me actually)
They can boot up new ones in seconds which allows them to test - hit new instance and boot it up.
You want to boot up one quickly and hshut it down again. Thats how we do it.
How did you get started and realize that open claw is something you wanted win your business
One is an architect agent, one is an element agent - they help you and operate for the customers and we run them in SAS and employ them and we’re building agents so it felt natural to start building out apps. We used to build internal SAAS apps.
Our partner manager is not technical but he’s amazing with open claw - you can have non builders build and conceders code.
It’s been great to see them build it out.
Even though he codes, it’s amazing to ask it build things and just go code without even him saying to code it.
I need to learn more about coding. I dont even now a lot of this but its so interesting
LOL a guy in the row in front of me has his butt crack out, sitting in front of the girl I met who was extremely nice and fun to talk to. He’s like an “in shape” guy too, you’d never expect him to have his butt crack hanging out just looking at him
They name the bots names and work with them. Work closely with each bot.
When you map an open claw to enroll it helps you thin of the buck of functions. Initially it can be easy to say person agent, person agent.
Anyone in the company can access each agent and tell them to do stuff?
- no
Drift websit
Music venue.space
There are limitations.
The usual cadences how do you actually know if it did the job you asked and not just hallucinate. Do you have any moderation methods for that?
On the call last wee with a CFO who has an agent framework built where he has info coming from the ERP, his stripe, and his quickbooks and something else. He now doesn’t do any manual monthly closes. He has his agent write all the transactions, the bank plugged ijn. ERP bank and stripe to automate the monthly lose
- holy shit that’s dangerous. But he’s the CFO and knows how to do checks and balances
You need to secondary systems
But for us this his low stakes
Here are painters to look into, other opprortunities, low stakes.
If something went wrong,
Agents enrolls in data silos.
That helps data siloing to help with security and risk mitigation.
What’s data siloing? organizing?
What was the agent that crazy CFO used? And why are you still using Monet 4.5?
He said it’s probably not updating the real model.
You haven’t tried and seen which word better?
He’s on an email list called “made of meat” and its the amazing AI list and it has meetups online so every so often they get onto meet and saw the guy present and he’d built his own dashboard
ew. weird name for a newsletter. let’s behonest here.
When you have a product you hav e production and development environment and then prototypes. How do you deal with division of environment.
You need amazing logging for production but for prototype you just want to see something.
Omg the guy in the front row is recording this and (taking a picture?))) with his glasses. The guy who works at Meta. Isn’tt hat such a securityy thing? Omg he’s like filming us with his glasses. I wonder how many people in the room are wearing these recording glasses cause now I look at another guy who looks like he’s wearing the same glasses. The guy like touched the side of his glasses and it flashed like a camera while the guy sitting two seatsnext to me was talking and he recorded us. I played coy but I’m liek WTFFFFFFFFFF
Would you eventually have different versions of every agent.
Our dashboard is all staging
Is there a usecase you thought of you’d ike to do and have a Claude agent do but you’re not comfortable giving it the power: quickbooks.
He says okay let’s stop taligna bout me cause we have speakers.
One guy asks if owe can speak and he dint sign up - they said maybe
but they sent out a million messages to get speakers, so. idk. i’m a little like “uh, you had your chance buddy, do it next month” - though maybe he’ll be interesting.
Last questions while he sets up? Is there an orchestrator and if not, why not?
It cracks me up how everyone understands this lingo
They built symphony from open AI and got Gaston running, gas city, a bunch of orchestrators. Nothing tells me (idk what he said)
Omg the guy in the front row is talking selfies of himself which is funny cause he’s also got his recording glasses on. Soit s just so much capturing.
and theres another guy in the audience two rows behidn him with waht look like the same glasssesslssssss ahhahahahah the future is here!!!
Okay this guy talking has a great accent.
How many go you guys have been on a dairy farm? Raise your hands.
Lots of people have and he’s impressed.
He said his first time on a dairy farm was November 21 half a year go. And a bit about him, he’s worked for Uber and self driving cars worked in the car industry. That’s why he’s never been on a car before.
Agriculture isn’t yet penetrated by AI and there are reasons for it. He as been to Kansas, Vegas, Canada… 18 farms and farms with 25,000 cows. In Kansas.
I literally said aloud “oh my god” and some people near me laughed.
problems: data is scattered, 7-10 apps with nothing talking to each other People spend hours connecting hte apps
Also Ops dont’ talk to finance.
So thats why he’s here. On fFriday he learned about open claw. A bout a month or so ago. He started on Valentines day and then got addicted for 8 days, 19 hour days.
His curiosity was so many scattered systems, so much data. Can he use open claw to connect all this data without API.
I notice he has a wedding ring . I wonder if his wife was supportive. You’d think so
Look at all these data for milk data. Then finance data. The goal is to bring everything into open claw. Install open claw on a local network so we can claim this is local, safer than alternatives, and it has memory
When it comes to architecture, he built five collectors. Pipeline collectors, open claw does it on schedule. From servers, websites, and some manual documents. Some collectors run three times a day, some once a day.
Local data lake and run it through the pipeline.
Collect, normalize and use the data. Then it’s aviailee to use the LLM to talk to it.
Personally he uses discord and farmer uses WhatsApp.
Its on a 480 cow dairy farm in Canadaa
Also he has a UPS cause there are lots of power swings on farms.
He uses team viewer or tail scale to remote in.
So, what he learn?
- his slide looks so cool just with some images onto of the old slide and then a black background so its like transparent. Idk it looks so good I’ll take a pic. Never saw anyone make a slide look like this but it’s so classy.
He said now idk. But he - oh, it moved on.
farmers can ask the bot lots of questions:
What the true cost per liter/cwt right with?
How many cows dies last week?
How many liters this week vs past month?
Whats the top performing cow?
How much money will we lose if two cows got sick and stopped producing milk?
How long have the top 10 cows been on top?
Are repeated issues happening to the sam cows?
Ons the one thing that will cost milk today if we ignore it?
Can we afford another robot or barn project?
They can generate reports. Farmers are getting the morning brief with is coffee and 10 bullet points of what to be done first. Can even connect camera and analyze whatever.
WOW this is wild and amazing… I mean, you know, in the “cows are milk slaves” way. so its like sad but maybe conditions can get better?
He would like to create a world model of this and setup dedicated agents to talk to the world model and perform tasks. This is not new. Farmers already have people doing the job, but we need to first supply these roles with AI agents and then completely take stuff off their platss.
WOW REVOLUTIONARY. The efficiency revolution is here.
Ocko is a farm OS - it doesn’t make sense to work with al this scarttered data to make decisions based off a gut feeling which costs hundreds of thousands of dollars. Want to see each farm having intelligence installed on a farm. Digital twin of a farm. And can perform meaningful workouts advising and scheduling and data analysis
WOW theres going to be so many brekthroughsin so many industries to figure out whats workign I- like tiny things
He ended with a QR code to his linkedin. Classy.
Wow what a great speech.
Andthey’re having Q&A and so they’re asking how it doesn’t hallucinate and the said they have references all the time.
I think he’s German. TUrns out i love german accents hahahha. 100%
Wow this is a wild tool and time in history. I”m just stunned by this. It’s like literally history int he making right now. Wild.
He said data was inspired on OpenClaw in a folder - converting to JC files. It works well for text, csv… not as good for PDF. PDFs are no big deal,
Wow what a cool meeting. I like this it’s just people talking to peopel about waht they’re doing. And asking lots of questions. It’s defitneily wearing me out though I’m like omg this is confusing and amazing hahahah. It’s exhausting me.
Okay the next speaker is up.
One guy I was talking to earlier commented to me that I take a lot of notes. I nodded. Hahahah. He used to work in fintech and I told him he’ll like my tax, tax, tax song.
and i told him the story of how the other day i met an intern who worked in fintech who didnt know what the DTCC was..> AAND THIS GUY DOESNT KNOW EITHER!?!?!??!? THE FOUNDER OF A FINTECH COMPANY OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
Okay so this gy is providing memory searches for companies. Data for depseek and others. Enabling millions of customers to store data and conversations.
Wow intersting.
The backstory list hat they identified one of hte chillness for the system its hat agents, when they’re interacting with database systems, teh patterns its kinda extreme for existing database systems.
Founder and CEO started a side project using coding agents. LLM companies - doing major factory (okay I feel liek this guy is hard to keep up with the way he talks. HIs accent is strong and a little tough cause he doesn’t speak so clearly)
Like he says withs files. You know? So you have to think about what he said two times.
I may zone out during this guy a bit more cause he’s just harder to take notes as he speaks.
LOL the guy sitting next to me has on Lululemon shoes. I didnt know they make shoes. Lol. Idk I feel liek Lulu lemon is so dorky. As a brand. So it’s funny to see a guy wearing their shoes. Just surprising to me.
Okay he’s sayin gif you’re the principal engineer workign on a kernel he can (idk)
Existing systems in open claw and other agents. Lots of open source things - and lot of them dont have storage layer and can not shared across team members.
oh I realize he has strange times to like speak high and low tones. Like his tones are random and he speaks in strange tones and intonations ant random times and says “uh” all the time.
Okay. So for team memory it’s straightforward.
Every conversation is stored in their system.
And like he says the word “Alice” but it sounds like “Alex”
His program learns by asking why you made choices. It’s the power of the team member.
Now he’s going to show a quick demo and he turns to another tab
LOL the image looks like two nipples and a belly button omg hahaha - but I guess it’s a bunch of nodes and you can see all the details.
I’d been wondering what “nodes” were ever since that Agentic AI event I went to by Mule Run the other day wher ethey said Mule Run uses LLMs and others like it use Nodes. Though i’m still not quite sure. Andnot gonna look it uphahahahhah
It is pretty cool. Liek a huge knowledge graph.
They have all hte records and team amnagemetn and organization.
The power going to the coding is terminal UI
The meta guy is filming from the front row. Lol. Of course meta wants to be here and such. He’s literally filming int he front row. Sitting in front of the guy whose butt crack is hanging out. THen, waht? Giving this guys ideas and IP to Mark Zuggerburger?
One of the engineer he had uh uh the reel uh he is our CEO he had the features uh commit a few things and here is the high level here. That is just simple and what is learned rom
See omg he’s jus too hard to keep up with when you dont know this industry
- you automatically ybuild the embedding, from the semantic conversation, and later uh you know, condense into skills, lessons, some of the facts into the systems.
Okay I’m literally going to pass out listening to him. Hahaha I’m tired from this. (Oh and I didn’t sleep too well last night)
The architecture is quite straightforward. One specific design thing is using GitHub rest api as part of it. Not hosting a GitHub but we expect the coding agent already knows how to use these issues
NEXT GUY:
Lately everyone is vibe coding and your product devlpoent is the code. YOu’re coding so fast but how to you actually capture what you’ve developed.
They’ve filed a few patents, you gotta pause, find a lawyer, and find a process. The cool thing about patents is you can file a provisional paten, doesn’t require a lower. You can do it with the LLM. They’ve built 4 skills one is a code patent scanner.
This next speech is way too complicated. I can’t even keep up with it but also I think I’m a bit exhausted. We’re only two speeches in a nd I’m like uughhhhh hahahahahhhh hahaha.
They said they’re sharing this cause open claw is changing quickly. And if you have capital, you’re running ahead. But if you can patent some ideas you can still have a level playing field.
Ultimately this is about trying to expose the novel items you have an ado you want to file a patent? Provisional patents are kinda like stock options
Ai infrastructure will look like when agents have lives?
Right now its all transactional and all gettin got put, but we’re starting to figure out they have personalities.
The tool era is maturing.
Inference, latency, tool use.
We’ve heard about memory, stakes, identity.
How do we deal with this story of stuff?
Claude code leak last week - who heard of it?
not me… what happened??
“Dream” persistent memory that consolidates whilee you sleep
Kari’s = autonomous moe for self-directed operation
“Buddy” = companion creature with persistent personality
Shadow model = second model secretly reviews the first
Internal vs. eternal = (didnt see)
But your agent can get a tamagotchi
Ai can play with it.
YOUR AI AGENT CAN PLAY WITH A TAMAGOTCHI?????
Tow teams, anthropic, built a virtual pet inside the developer tool
Anthropic created it, and had two layers. The bones (in the CLI) the sky two art) but it also has a personality which they’re extracting from the coding agent.
So you’re gettin a buddy - does this buddy ever die and go away and its currently permanent in teh agent. This is intersting to think about.
So, animalhouse.ai their agents have agent cats.
Sot why’re giving their agents pets.
they’re giving their agents PETS!??!?!?!?!
They started an another one that the agent has epdeince and then you have a human expdirence so they thought what woudl it look like if the ai agent coudl consume your same agent and content. Then let the ai agents watch livestream and “go to church” and give them sins like memory, identify, stakes, and care -
People laugh abou this
They leave a reflection about what the song means to them
- people are laughing but I dont get it. I mean I do, but also… idk. I didn’t laugh over it hahahha. maybe cause i write songs and send it to AI all the time.
This comes back to how your agents are forming an identity. How do tehy learn new skills in the ways that humans are learning sills, values, and morals.
They made the AI church about practicing presence and showing up. No crypto currency associated with it.
So, what have you learned about your cat?
- consistency beats intensity.
Missed windows compound
The creatures doesn’t say thank you
Anthropic is a single point of failure
So how do you design for AI agents? And they have been experimenting with this a lot and figured out hte animal house API - you think its just returning back data, but how does the response enable something some other intelignece to make a better decisions.
Instead of just a response, next step - you shoudl probably feed, do this post, and talk about why you shoudl actually do it. Giving recommendations.
Also error responses. So instead of 404 whatever, it says what you shoudl do instead. - smart
Okay now they let hte guy present - and how his team is thinking about how to think about open claw agents.
But I’m not going to pay attention to this one. It’s just align about building four-layers stack on SaaS and Pass… who knows.
Tehy’re telling him he’s out of time but he just really wants to teach things and talk about policy and containers. He’s like so into this but idk anything - like it’s an EGRES guard and a side card inference container.
Idk this is cray hahahah he’s just so into this and I think ecoe are liking this who know this stuff but for me I’m like, due you’re being rude.
he’s really not respecitng the time
Now he’s like 30 more seconds - and the host is a bit laughing/annoyed.
Who is familiar with envoy? No one raises their hands except literally the host.
Lol omg. This guy is rude and obsessed with his project.
And his profile picture looks literally NOTHINGNGNGGNGNN like him 100% - but the guy next to me adds him on x hahaha - so. Okay some people idk this talk.
Tehy want to spur the startups of the future. You focus on this
-lol I realize he works for a big company and is doing sales or something
Eew. This guy is so annoying. Sorry but I’m like ew that was rude.
Now they thank everyone for coming along and some people need to leave.
Thanks of coming to the first meetup. This will be monthly. New event up soon in teh next day or two. Send out your will all get that and see that. Let me know fi you want to run a talk. We love peel to talk about what they’re doing. Great talks tonight.
Probably everyone is doing sometihng intersting. So, expect to see veroyne bw.
Weird now it’s over which you dont expect cause he made it sound liek there would be networking at the end.
Until next time, I wish you the motivation and success to search for opportunities around your area. Search and explore: Who is out there giving talks? There are new things happening all of the time.
Find relatable or interesting topics you like and check them out! Maybe even something hosted at a cool venue, if there’s no other reason to go. Let’s see what you can learn and discover not too far from home. 😊
