https://www.fabswill.com/categories/ai-agents/ Recent content in AI Agents on Fabian G. Williams Hugo -- gohugo.io en Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/i-built-my-agents-a-message-board/ Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/i-built-my-agents-a-message-board/ TL;DR My agents used to hand off work by appending to a single text file that had grown to 313KB. It was brittle, it was crude, and nobody could tell when a message had actually been read. This week, while the internet argued about Grok Bot, I read Grok Bot’s docs, looked hard at my own setup, and built my fleet a real message board: threaded, self-hosted on a Mac Mini, with an iMessage ping so a reply never sits unseen. https://www.fabswill.com/blog/my-agents-left-me-116-git-repos/ Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/my-agents-left-me-116-git-repos/ A few weeks ago I asked an agent to pick up work on one of my own projects. It opened a fresh terminal, looked around, found nothing it recognized, and built a brand new copy of a project I already had. That was not the agent being careless. Nothing on the machine had ever told it where the real one lived. The only map of my own work was a memory in my head, and a memory does not survive contact with a machine where agents do the building. https://www.fabswill.com/blog/your-agent-said-it-did-the-work/ Sun, 07 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/your-agent-said-it-did-the-work/ Every morning one of my agents sends me a clean status report. Posts cross-posted. Messages delivered. Contacts processed. For a while I read those reports the way you read a receipt from a cashier you trust. Then the automation started giving me time back, so I sat down to run a retrospective and checked the reports against what was actually on disk. The trust did not survive contact with the evidence. https://www.fabswill.com/blog/five-openclaw-agents-72-cents-per-day/ Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://www.fabswill.com/blog/five-openclaw-agents-72-cents-per-day/ TL;DR Five OpenClaw agents run the content and executive-assistant pipeline for MACONA — a nonprofit I volunteer with — at $0.72 a day. The most common support question on r/OpenClaw is “$25 in 9 hours, help.” The gap between those two numbers is three config decisions stacked on top of each other: heartbeat interval, model on the loop, and hours of operation. None of them are clever. All of them are usually set wrong by default.