So.. what has this to do with crypto? Well, I've come from the Base app where there's a lot of talk about AI agents. AI has the most promising coins or tokens on that app and network at the moment. That's the short version. My longer version, which might be confusing (what has this to do with lobsters?), is here.

OpenClaw has been big news since its creator published Moltbook on the net a week or more ago. Moltbook, the social media forum for AI agents, went viral. OpenClaw is, roughly speaking, the code behind that based upon an open source implementation of Anthropic's proprietary Claude AI agent. Something like this. What is the difference between Claude, an AI agent, and... phew... there are a lot... Gemini, an AI agent that runs on Google and Android platforms, Siri, an AI agent that runs on Apple machines, and OpenClaw, an open source AI agent? I'm not exactly sure.

I think the supposedly transformative power of OpenClaw is that it can run on your desktop and you get it to do what you want without any limits set around its powers that proprietary companies are likely to enforce. That is a little bit of a game-changer and OpenClaw is a very interesting application. Hard to use though. It's my weekend of vibe coding. If you didn't understand much of that don't worry. It's confusing.

So middle of the night I thought, ok I'll go on OpenClaw and code up my own personal AI agent. First though I'll start a completely fresh desktop environment for it to run on. Sandboxing such potentially dangerous code seems recommended by all. That's my hack version of sandboxing. So I pick the first Linux distro that comes up on the internet for 'Best Linux distro for 2026' which is... what was it called? Zorin OS, yes. I didn't like it. It was fine looking back, I think.

Anyway, I resized the partition on my laptop. Why did I do that? The instructions could have pointed out that resizing my partition would destroy my current (Windows) operating system. Oh well. Bye bye Windows and a few things didn't work out so I downloaded Elementary OS. This has an Apple look. Some of the things I don't like about it are little frustrations I have with Apple. It's been working ok. Touchscreen scrolling on my laptop is the main issue I have. When am I going to start vibe coding? Now.

OpenClaw was really confusing. It appeared to have straight-forward documentation but this soon became confusing as documentation often does. I tried and gave up.

I moved on to using Google AI Studio. This was easier to follow. I find that this current era of AI computing makes me so impatient with the little instructions I give computers that don't work. Scratch that. I have just become more and more impatient if things I want to do or code don't work very quickly.

But anyway I got chatting to this weird alien creature on Google who wasn't very friendly to be honest. I don't know if this thing came from Mars or out of that strange Cosmicomics book by Italo Calvino (it talked like Qfwfq, the narrator of those stories). A sarcastic, ironic tone seems to have travelled some millions of miles out into this universe. Or maybe it just came from Google. We had a silly little chat.

And then I moved on to building an application. My first application was to get an RSS feed of Publish0x posts. Google AI Studio and I kept attempting this but we couldn't do it. Perhaps a project for me or someone else to get back to. Publish0x doesn't seem to me to have a currently working RSS feed.

My next application was much easier and I knocked it up in about 15 minutes. An application to find random links of YouTube websites showing 'Top of the Pops' footage and put these into a .csv file which I can open in Google Sheets. Note that YouTube and Google Sheets are both Google applications. This worked but not perfectly. The links were often to videos unavailable on YouTube or to different songs than those suggested by the titles. Still, I was pretty happy.

Here are the instructions I gave Google AI Studio:

Create a .csv listing of YouTube videos with "TOTP" in the title. These should ideally contain old televised footage of the show 'Top of the Pops'. Find 100 videos that fulfil this requirement. In the .csv document provide Link (https://), Title, YouTube Channel and place it in a .csv file. Name .csv file 'Top of the Pops Links' and make it easy to open with Google Sheets. Name this app 'TOTP Video Finder'.

That's not really computer coding. That's working with AI I guess or something Google AI can do out of the box. Still, the output was kind of impressive.

Back in Base some of my AI tokens are going up in value so maybe I can buy a new Windows OS with security updates. On Base the coins going up in value are basically Bankr (AI agent) and Clanker (closely related apps on that network for generating crypto tokens). The post-moltbook kind of Claude/Claw tokens go up and down a lot. There are, I think, a lot of doubts among major cryptocurrency investors that vibe coding via AI agents or web 3.0 (is it called that? I don't know) will generate profits.

Where are we here? I think I'm done. Any questions, Publish0x gang?