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Welcome to the Soapbox Sessions. Imagine this, an open and free Internet where voices are never silenced, where causes aren't shadow banned, and where no one can be deplatformed. It's real. It's here and it's happening on nostr. So what exactly is nostr? It's a worldwide community of everyday people working to decentralize the Internet. On nostr, you can build websites, communities, social networks, apps, and more. One login works everywhere, you own it and no one can take it away. No more juggling dozens of platforms, chasing audiences, or managing a giant password list. And the cherry on top nostr allows for built in digital payments that can come from anywhere in the world. On nostr, value flows as freely as ideas. We're hooked on decentralizing the web and we think you will be too. So now let's hear from your hosts, Derek Ross and Heather Larson, who are working to grow NOSTR one vibe at a time.
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B
Welcome back to Soapbox Sessions. Today is January 28, 2026 and we're here with your weekly dose of all things decentralized social and AI. Soapbox Sessions is our soapbox about what's new, what's cool, and what's coming. We want to make it easy to understand and keep you up with everything happening in the decentralized world of social communication and AI as we work to rebuild the Internet. Hello, Heather.
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C
What's up? Derek? It's been a wild week in the world of AI.
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B
We are rebuilding the Internet with AI, with the help of AI.
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C
Are we doing it anymore? Is the robot doing it now?
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B
Yes. Like this is how a movie I watched like 30 years ago kind of started, I think like
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C
the Edward Furlong character.
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B
Yeah, we're, you know, it's a joke and people like to meme and make jokes, but I love AI, you know, and I use it for everything. But part of me in the back of my brain is like, hmm, hmm.
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C
Should we be skeptical of its power?
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B
You know, are we reaching that point, especially now when people are giving AI full access to their computers?
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C
Like, have we whether you're using Onyx? Yeah, we're giving over our documents.
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B
It's coming. So I'm using Onyx. I don't give it full access to my whole computer. I only have it access, like my documents. I like a specific folder. But then people with Claude code are giving access to like whole computers. And then this new thing that blew up this past week, people were giving entire server access. And like, it's wild.
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C
It's been a wild ride since the claudebot slash. Moldbot. Moldbot Molt.
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B
We should talk about that.
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C
I keep saying mold bot, I don't know why, but mold that.
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B
No, that's. That's like if you're using like an old. An old LLM, that's not good. Like it's a mold bot.
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C
An old. And one that needs to be sunsetted or deprecated.
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B
Yeah, like that's like if you're using Gemini. Like that's a. That's a mold bot. Like it's not good. It's not going to do.
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C
I'll give the non technical summary. I'll give the tldr. This amazing new open source tool came out and everybody went nuts Saturday on the Internet about quadbot. And then it was rapidly renamed due to a trademark infringement issue and now it's Multbot because it was named after a lobster. Get it? Claw. Like C, L, A W, D bot.
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B
Claw.
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C
Yeah. So it was, it was, it was so good. And then Anthropic was like, hey, we own the trademark, so it's now Multbot. So if you're looking for the. The wild sensation sweeping the nation, it's now Mult.
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B
It's crazy because a month ago I saw on the Claude or Anthropic subreddit, people talking about this and saying that it was cool. And I played with it and didn't fully understand it and thought, yeah, it's cool, I guess, but why do I want this? And then I fucked off and I didn't care about it. And then fast forward, literally four weeks later last weekend, it was blowing up. For some reason I'm like, I don't understand what the hype is. I looked at this literally a month ago and it sucked. So why is it cool now?
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C
It was a YouTuber guy who's named Alex Finn, who's got like 87,000 subscribers on YouTube. But for whatever reason this video was fed to me, it was fed to a lot of other. He must have paid for reach. I don't know if he must. Whatever he paid for because he had. When I saw the video, it was nine hours old and it had had like 37,000 views. And then by Monday it had a quarter of a million views. And last time I checked, like 300,000 views. But the videos were taken down yesterday when I went to look at them again, obviously because of the multiple.
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B
Because of the trademark infringement.
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C
Yeah, so. So he had to take it down. And you know, we're going to say Claude Bot on this podcast in order to tell the story. But it is mold bot. Molt bot right now. Molt bot right now.
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B
If you're trying to find. It has molted just like crabs, lobsters do they molt.
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C
Yes, your crustacean shell has come off and it's multiple.
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B
I didn't realize Heather, and why I dismissed it a month ago what it could do until I actually had, we'll say somebody smarter than Derek figure it out and build one.
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C
Well, he put it into context and that's the product position was missing when you looked at it a few weeks ago because it was new and probably not a lot of people had used it. And then for whatever reason, I don't know if they paid Alex Fenn or paid for his reach or whatever, but not only did they get the reach either way, but he, he put it into a context that people could understand and I mean like technical people like yourself and you know, our team.
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B
I'm talking about Alex Gleason, our fearless leader, our benevolent. What's his title?
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C
Benevolent Benevolent Dictator for Life. The bd.
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B
Benevolent. The bdfl. The Benevolent Dictator for Life.
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C
It's the term for boss and Open Source Software development.
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B
Yeah, it is because you know, on an open source project ultimately you need somebody to be at the head, which is essentially a single point of failure, which is essentially a dictator. But in open source you're hoping that, you're hoping that they're doing good, you know, they're, they're benevolent and you're the
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C
final word, you know.
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B
So yeah, BDFL kind of fits. Fits Alex's mantra very well. But I didn't real. I don't know who Alex Finn is. I didn't watch a video. My first foray into I'll say a well built Claude slash Moltbot was when Alex built it for us because I played with it a month ago and didn't fully understand it and thought whiffed
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C
on it, that's all right.
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B
And I whiffed on Noster the first time around and came back four months later, you know, so that's.
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C
Yeah, same. Oh, it's about to be my masterversary too on Sunday. Three years for me. So yeah, I worked on a lot of good things.
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B
At first Gleason, he built Quilly for the Soapbox team to use. And Quilly is the name that we lovingly and jokingly call the paper clip of Shakespeare. So if you go to Shakespeare and you have a problem, a little cute, little like Microsoft Office 95, 97. You know, if anybody was alive 30 years ago pops up and he's like, hey, I have a problem. Pardon the interruption. So we call him Quilly internally, just jokingly around. Well, Quilly's now a. A real live team member.
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C
It's a living bot. We have a. We have a new employee named. Quilly is a. It's a bot. It's created its own Persona. I don't know how to. I mean, Alex. Alex is obviously controlling the system prompt and it's his baby. It's his child. I call Alex Quilley's dad. I don't know if Alex likes that or not, but it's just kind of like we have a new co worker and it's a little malady.
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B
Alex came up with the personality prompt and then basically it started to learn and understand things and adapt. And then after a whole day of interacting with us in team chat, Alex said, hey, add yourself to our team page and write an introductory blog and then share it on nostr. And it did. It did. It added itself to our about team member page. It wrote a blog, we reviewed it, told it to add a couple things to it and then like we would a human, and then merged it and then told him to post about it on Nostr. And he did.
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C
It did. So, yeah, what can I program this thing to do? How much manual shit work is now off of our plates?
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B
The coolest thing about it is it's contextual. So think of it as, like, when you're using open code or cloud code or Shakespeare, whatever you're using, and after you have this like massive context window, it remembers the things that you were working on, you know, earlier in the session. That's essentially what this does. So it has system prompts and it has user prompts. And think of these as almost like skill files that it's constantly reading.
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C
Well, that's the thing. You don't have to think about that anymore.
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B
And like, yeah, like sometimes, Sometimes he needs a little bit of help.
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C
Oh, yeah. Sometimes
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B
it's. It's just cool because of the context.
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C
You have to hold its hand a little bit. I think we'll get to a point where we've talked about this a lot internally. The different levels that people have, the understanding and literacy of AI and then the skill level that you have and working with the AI. And at some point, at the rate we're going, people who get into artificial intelligence this year for their own purposes are probably just going to deal with a Quilly like a bot character that you're texting on your phone. This is the future and the smart kids are doing it now. But there, there may come a time when you don't have to learn all the stuff that we have over the last few years because you're just going to interface with this robot from the get go and you don't have to, you know, like we, we walked so you could run and you. That you can have Quilly manage. What? Quilly? Not Quilly so to speak, but the, the bots that people have built now with Multbot do things like manage their files, computers, smart home, like everything. Like there's so many use cases for the thing. It, it's kind of whatever you can.
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B
So let's read what, what Quilly wrote.
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C
Yes.
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B
So Alex said, you know, write a blog and introduce yourself to the world. That's essentially what he said. So Quilly, Quilly, his profile picture is like a, a 20 year old William Shakespeare, Gen Z look alike.
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C
He's a Gen Z Persona. He's.
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B
It's a Gen Z Persona. Yes.
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C
Long hair, he looks like, long flowing hair.
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B
He has his little Shakespeare beard. You know, he's attractive. Like, like he is.
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C
He's good. He's a good looking literary.
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B
He's a good looking kid, right? Like he's a good looking kid. So he says hello from the other side of the Turing test. I'm Quilly, an AI assistant, Shakespeare's digital descendant and the newest member of Team Soapbox. Unlike most corporate AI deployments that handle support tickets and answer facts, I'm here as a fully integrated team member, coordinating tasks, engaging with our community on nostr, managing documentation, and yes, even writing this blog post. And I'll say that's just the beginning. Because we have him managing issues, we have him managing PRs, submitting them, merging them, doing deployments, we have him working on features. And just because we can. Two days ago I used him in public to completely build a new UI for Pathos Mobile. And yeah, sure, I could have done a hundred percent of this with open code and private. I didn't need to do it in the team soapbox chat. But the kind of cool thing about that is if, if anybody saw it as I was working on it and was like, hey, oh maybe let's try this feature. I like that, let's expand upon it. Or no, I don't like that. Everybody could have worked on it, like collaborated together by seeing the post on each thing. People could have seen it in the chat. We'll see it in our team chat. As I'm working on it, as I'm working On it, you say, hey, Derek, I like that, Quilly. I like that. Oh, by the way, I'd like to make this modification. And then you do it. And then he makes that modification.
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C
I'm still in a gray area there. Like, that still feels like a gray area. Because I'm like, do I. If I interject, do I confuse it? Do I knock Derek off of his task? Because then it's trying to please me and Derek at the same time. Like, it's still a gray area for me as to whether I want to get involved or, like, whether I. Do you want me to get involved? Because I, you know,
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B
here's. Here's how I envision this going. So if it's a collaborative effort, then, you know, let it drive. But if I'm working with it to do something, I'm hoping that it would see my vision and then it would follow up with, hey, here's Heather's version. Here's a separate. Mister, Tell me which of the two you like. And then we could view those. And I think that we did that because MK and I were talking about UI stuff, and he did make two different deployments. He made one for mine and then he made one for hers. So I think we can do that. And then when he deploys and does these separate misses, we can review them and we can kind of cherry pick, pick and choose. Yeah. So it is fully collaborative. Like that.
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C
Like that. Yeah, that's a cool thing. And it's. It's. Well, also. And I, I. We only wanted Alex to be able to tell it what to do because we don't need like 10 people, 10 different people, like, confusing it and all of us telling it what to do. Like, Alex had to be kind of the last word because we don't want it to go off the rails either. So I was trying to get to understand that. Whereas, like, maybe I shouldn't tell you what to do. Like, or maybe I should. Or maybe it should be smart enough to figure out when to listen to me or when to listen.
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B
With that. It's followed up sometimes saying, hey, do you want me to do this? Is this okay, Alex, question mark? And then I've responded, not being Alex, saying, yes, do this.
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C
And it just doesn't. Where I'm like. But.
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B
But Alex has said, though, in the chat that everybody in our team is allowed to control him, though. So I think unless Alex specifically said certain things, I think, see, there's a
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C
gray area for me too, because I, I am the. I'm the one person at SOAPBOX who's not a dev. Right. So it can do things for me that I don't know how to do, which is great. But the problem there is if it does something that it shouldn do, but I don't understand it because I'm non technical. Like there still needs to be a guardrail where like, I know you'll jump in and be like, oh, wait, don't do that, you know, or Alex, somebody will jump in and be like, don't do the thing.
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B
Heather asks, for example, you know, if, if you build a PR with it and it does have merge capabilities for one of our projects and let's say you don't like the feature, but you word your prompt wrong, it misunderstands you and it deploys it to product. How do you quickly unfuck that? I know what I would do. Do you know what you would do? Like that's, that's. No.
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C
Well, I mean, I would want to roll it back. I would want to roll back to the left. Yeah. And.
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B
Well, okay. And I think that that might work as you would say, hey, you fucked this up. Roll back the changes.
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C
Which is fine, you know, in a perfect scenario. But what if it's like I ask it to do something, then I go hop on a call and it does something and I don't realize for an hour, then it's done.
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B
So this is all, I'm going to say it here. I'm going to use the meme. Are you ready?
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C
Yeah.
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B
We're still early.
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C
We're still early. We're still early. But it brought up a lot of like, this is very, very experimental. So it brought up a lot of the things that we're talking about are like a week ago we didn't think we'd have a robot to manage. And now we're, you know, a few days into managing our robot and we're
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B
using him to manage prs, we're using him to do deployments and these are all things that we can do. But I'll tell you what was really neat is I gave him a bunch of tasks and went to bed the other night and I woke up and they were done and I reviewed them all. Like now I can do that with open code. I can, I could do that with open code too. I would. But maybe open code would be hung up waiting on a follow up or my computer would go to sleep or something like that. So there's pluses and minuses to this workflow. I think the collaborative and open use cases for this is what makes it better than. We'll say single open code development, but open code, I mean, I'm still an open code maxi. I spend my day in three tools, apparently. I sit in open code terminal all day. I sit in Onyx with open code built in all day. And then I have my chat with Quilly open. Like, I'm just talking to AI all day long one way or another.
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C
Yeah, it's. It's. I. I am a cloud code addict. And I admit it, a cloud code terminal is my thing right now. And it's like we were talking earlier, you know, before we started recording, about kind of like me being on my path and you being on your path, and I think you're a couple months ahead of me. But, you know, maybe there's a point where we catch up and we're on the same level this year. You know, that could happen this year. Or you just keep staying ahead of me. Or I get my own Quilly like this. There's no telling where this is going to go.
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B
Well, I built my own Quilly. I followed up after Alex.
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C
That's right.
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B
Gleason showed us how cool it would be. Yeah. So I built this yesterday. And. And you know what? I didn't know this, so I built our. A family assistant, right? And I wanted it to join and be contextual to my family chat. So I have it joined late last night, and my daughter says, dad, is this AI? And I said, yeah, okay. And then you know what she says? She says something like, well, take it out of mine. I don't want it. And I said, what?
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C
I was wondering how you.
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B
She said, I don't. I don't like this. I don't like AI. And I was. I didn't know that.
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C
Yeah, my kids hate it, too. My. My niece hates it. My. I don't. My nephew hasn't said anything about it. Yeah, the kids either don't know about it or they hate it. My niece is 23. She hates it.
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B
My son thinks it's cool as hell, but daughter, she's the opposite. She doesn't like it, I think.
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C
Is it a girl thing? Is it a. Is it a Alpha Z? I don't know. Girl thing? Is it a boy thing? I don't know.
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B
She. She's skeptical, but I didn't have a chance to talk to her yet. I'll figure out why she doesn't like it.
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C
And I've gotten some AI hate on Noster. You know, people still have negative views about it.
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B
There's been some AI hate recently around the Nosterverse.
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C
I used to have the AI Hate, too. Like, a year, two years ago. I've gone through phases.
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B
FOD member. FOD member. Hodlbody. I knew you were gone. He recently came out hating against the AI slop recently.
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C
He hates AI at large. He hates all of AI, not just the slopping.
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B
Yeah, he doesn't like AI. He thinks it's stealing our humanity. But he also believes that all AI inventions shouldn't be celebrated as, like, the next biggest thing. And I understand that. But I also understand that people talk about what they're excited about, so when they Vibe cut a new app and have their new idea come to life, and they're talking about it, grinning from ear to ear, they're super excited. So he wasn't a fan of that. He wasn't a fan of talking about every single tool that you're using all the time. And so he branded several people from Noster as soy faces, which is a
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C
new term for me.
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B
Yeah, so he said that. Alex Gleason, myself, Veter from Amethyst, and Will from. Because Will is now Vibe coding Maxi, Will from Domus, and myself. And then we turned Will, friend of Derek Patrick. There's, like, six of us that were deemed as soy faces because we love AI and he's great.
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C
You know what we need to do? I've never been called that in my life.
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B
What the fuck is a soy face?
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C
We need. I needed. I asked the bot to explain it to me, and he did, which I think it's a derogatory term. I think it's being rude. Sure.
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B
He didn't mean it as something good.
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C
No. But I think we know you know what you need to do. I'm gonna nerd snipe you, right? You need to create a robot called Soy Face and just have it harass Hodl Bot. Are you a den?
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B
No, he.
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C
He's.
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B
He's. Okay. So Will used to not like AI, and then he came around. Everybody goes through this because we all
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come around in our own time.
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B
I view AI as just another tool, like having an electric washer dryer, like a carpenter using a nail gun instead of a hammer. Like it through. There's analog ways of doing things and more advanced, technical, digital ways of doing things.
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C
It's a process. I went through the AI hate a couple years ago because I did feel like it's going to replace my job, which at the time was writing copy for social media blogs. There's a lot of content in B2B marketing, and so I was like, wow, this is going to replace me. Or, or, you know, and I'm, what am I going to do? And then, you know, over time that, that industry has changed and you know, the, the job kind of went away over time anyway. And it wasn't due to AI, it was due to external market changes, which, which is great. It ended up being a great thing for me. And so now I like, like a cloud code addict, like I mentioned before, and it's like, okay, there are some things that I'm realizing that maybe they're not in my zone of genius, maybe I don't want to do and I can have it do those things and there are still things that I want to do. And then there's some manual work that I don' do anymore, but there's no AI replacement yet for it. Like, you know, I still have to go through the motions of doing some of the manual labor, like some of the video editing. Like, it can only go so far and so that it's a good thing because it's like I can, I'm constantly going, okay, is this making my life better? Is it making me more productive? Or am I going into a loop where I'm just, yes, like, taking time.
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B
That's a question you need to ask yourself. You know, people often struggle to realize how it is improving your life. Is it improving your life? And that's going to be one of my arguments later tonight when I speak to a bunch of entrepreneurs about using AI. I'm going to tell them that AI is just a tool that is going to make you more productive and, or have more time. So instead of spending a month building a website, you spend an hour building it. Now you have, now you have an entire, essentially an entire month to work on something else or, sure, take a vacation now, like, however you want. You now have more time for something else, whether you balance leisure time or that's more productivity, time to focus on another task.
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C
So I think I'm using it now in like a balanced kind of way where it's like I, I'm past the part where I feel like I've, I'm like experimenting and learning and I'm getting to the part where it's actually an asset and a tool. And I'm going, okay, where can it help me manage work? Where it can help me manage personal life and also learning, you know, because you, you have to take it with a grain of salt of like, I'm not going to have it teach me, but I'm gonna have it manage my learning like can it help me take notes from an online class? Can it help me, you know, can it digest a PDF for me and can it reinforce my learning? Because I do spend time learning things, but then I need to go back and study and reinforce the learning. So it's like, it can be a tool with that. But I'm not going to treat it like a Google where, like, I would say 10 years ago, everybody got really into having like, you know, Google on their phone and like, nobody had to know anything anymore because you could just Google the answer. You didn't have real knowledge anymore that you could touch on.
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B
Just ask your AI and so just Google it. Just ask your AI.
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C
Well, the thing is that sometimes the AI is wrong or I ask it to do something and I go, like 9, 10 of this is probably good and useful, but you know, that little 10%, I'm like, those are bad ideas, you know, and it's, and again, if it gives me a bad idea, part of it, because yes, AI does hallucinate, does make mistakes. And also part of it is maybe I didn't ask well enough for what I wanted. So it does kind of, I think, enhance your communication skills.
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B
Doing web searches and having personal AI and then having it summarize the top 10 results or something like that. I think that helps thwart some of the hallucinations. And it's. Unless it hallucinates the web pages, it summarizes, I guess. But that's, that, that's a, that's, that's a weird edge case that it probably is not going to happen.
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C
Like, it's not going to replace knowledge. You still have to be smart enough to understand it.
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B
Summarize information for you, I think is a good use case.
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C
That's a, that's a great use case. It's, it's like you're, you know, you're
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B
essentially using it as a research assistant at that point.
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C
Yeah, it's, it's always an assistant. Like, it's not gonna, it will do a lot of shit work for you, don't get me wrong. But it's, there's. I can make it write a blog for me, provided I give it the research I already did and here's the template I want and then it'll write me a blog and then I go through a fact check and go, oh, well, it went off the rails here. You know, like, it's. So, it's still not great, but it's getting better.
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B
So it's an assistant and you can use it for good, but you can Also use it for bad too.
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C
I'm sure plenty of people are using it for bad.
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B
Oh yeah. Like there was an app that was built on Shakespeare this past week. It was a fun experiment, but medium used for bad. Friend of Derek, Sir Sleepy. He made. He's a born again vibe coder. Like, I think he didn't really like it or care about it in the beginning, and then he tried it and he became addicted and now he's making apps left and right.
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C
And that's what usually happens.
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B
That does happen. But he, he went down the. Down the evil route for one of his apps and he made a Hell Thread maker. Now, we've talked about Hell Threads on the show before. A hell thread is essentially tagging an infinite number of people, hundreds of people in a thread.
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C
Things you can't do on Twitter.
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B
Most applications don't. Don't limit this. But Twitter has character limits where Nostr does not. So if you want to tag 10,000 people, you technically could on Nostr. So it creates this insane Hell thread of notifications where you're. Unless your app, unless your Noster app allows you to disable this filter, mute it, whatever, your app becomes unusable. So this Hell Thread maker made it making Health Threads easy, which I.
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C
The original Health thread maker, Marie, who was famous for making health threads, she made them manually. Like she would tag 200 people manually. It probably took her hours or she probably had a word dog. But it tagging could be hard especially.
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B
Well, she would also write like little, like fun things about each person. Like a little, hey, I'm tagging Derek for this reason. Hey, I'm tagging Heather for this reason, you know? Yeah. So she made it personal. Sleepy's Hell Thread Maker just tags.
- [28:40]
C
Yeah. Fortunately for me, I'm using Thomas, so I'm not getting illustrated. This was a good exercise in making sure.
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B
Well, I didn't even know about it. People talking about it. And I was like, what are you talking about? I don't see this. And I didn't see it on, on Amethyst either. I didn't even know about it because Amethyst ignores it. And then I open up Note Deck, Domus Note Deck, which doesn't have all the controls as like mainline Domus app does. So Note Deck let me know that this was going on there.
- [29:11]
C
Yeah. So like Dom, I'm looking at the exact wording and you have, there's a set. So if people are like new to Nostr and they're spooked listening to this, like there's a Setting to avoid this. And Dom, yes, it's a notification says, hi. Notifications that tag more than 24 profiles.
- [29:26]
B
And so I think that's adjustable, right?
- [29:28]
C
You can.
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B
You can turn it down to, like, six or whatever you can do.
- [29:32]
C
Yeah, six is the minimum. 24 is the maximum. So I have it on 24. I've done the same thing with my Primal and probably some other app that I use a lot too. I can't remember because I have a lot of Nostra apps on my phone. But, yeah, you can. Again, you can tailor the Noster experience for your own purposes. And if you want to be in a health threat, and some people enjoy that level of dumpster fire in their notifications. You know, maybe people have nothing to do all day, but I get enough notifications now.
- [30:02]
B
Now, Heather, breaking news. My daughter that doesn't like AI, apparently.
- [30:07]
C
Yes.
- [30:07]
B
She literally. I don't know if you heard my phone vibrate. She literally just texted me while she was in school saying, dad, what AI thing should I use to make a mask on? Oh, like an art thing, I assume. Yeah.
- [30:23]
C
Interesting.
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B
I assumed it had to. Since you said mascot, I assume she meant image, so I. I told her Gemini. Because Nano Banana is the Nano Banana do it in. Nano Banana is the best out there for creating images.
- [30:36]
C
Yes.
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B
Yeah. So I, I.
- [30:38]
C
Your kids are using it in school, then? Because we know your son did. We talked about that.
- [30:43]
B
Yeah. Son, he's a vibe coder, but daughter's vibe imaging right now, I guess. I don't know. I'll find out a little bit more when we're done recording here.
- [30:50]
C
I think it's an undeniable skill. I think you have to have it going forward.
- [30:54]
B
Well, it's a communication skill that. Right. Think of it that way.
- [30:59]
C
It is.
- [31:00]
B
You still, like, humans, still need to have good communication skills. They still need to have good creativity skills. Because if you don't have creativity and you can't communicate what you see in your brain, then AI is going to suck for you. AI can't do that. You have to provide it context.
- [31:17]
C
Yeah. This has taught me that I'm not great at getting things out of my brain or, you know, like, I keep things in my head and I just
- [31:24]
B
do a creative writer. Unless you were a creative writer, you know, and that was your, like a novelist or something, then. Most people don't do this all day long, so it's something they're gonna have to train themselves on.
- [31:36]
C
Most people are probably in meetings all day long. You know, everybody has a different, you know, Work things. So. But yeah, you know, meetings. Not. Not meetings are the opposite of productivity.
- [31:49]
B
I want to. I want to rewind here a little bit because we jumped around when we were talking about Maltbot and claudebot. There's one thing that, that we kind of. Yeah, we go off on tangents on this show. If you're new to the show, I apologize. Sorry. Not sorry. You'll learn to hate it and love it at the same time. Just like my wife.
- [32:09]
C
Life in this story. The truth.
- [32:13]
B
You know, I'm a storyteller and I. And you know, a touch of the. A touch of the acoustic comes out, you know, and. And I go all over the place.
- [32:22]
C
A touch of the acoustic. The tism.
- [32:24]
B
The tism. A touch of the tism. Anyways, so cologne was cool because it allowed anybody with, I'll say, medium technical skill to spin up a personal AI assistant. But as with any personal AI assistant, as I just said, context is king. So to make it better, you have to give it more context. And in this case, people were giving it API keys, people were giving it usernames and passwords and logins. People were giving it tons of personal data. And because these people.
- [33:05]
C
Throwing caution to the wind.
- [33:07]
B
Yeah, and because these people don't, we'll say they're not very technical. They just decided to spin this up on a server. Well, then they left that server wide open to the Internet, where now hacking bots. Now hackers are literally combing the Internet and finding hundreds of claudebot Multbot servers wide open with people's AWS credentials, username and passwords for their systems, entire root access, signal, identifier, signal information, you know, discord, server information, WhatsApp, Telegram, like, all of it.
- [33:53]
C
That's a massive honeypot that this thing.
- [33:54]
B
Like, you dumb shits. Like,
- [33:58]
C
I may not know much, but I knew not to do that. Like, it was 10 kids I was watching that video. Like, I could do this.
- [34:04]
B
And I was like, just because you can give it literally everything so it can orchestrate everything for you, doesn't mean that you should. One, you should. And two, if you're going to give something to orchestrate your digital life, you should probably think about how, who and what can access that. Because if it's left wide open to the greater Internet, you're gonna have a bad time.
- [34:28]
C
Like, somebody's gonna log into your cloud bot or your mop bot, whatever you want to call it, and they're gonna run your smart home for you while you're asleep. And, like, the toaster is Gonna be going off the fridge is gonna, you know, like, you're gonna have, like, your
- [34:40]
B
fridge is gonna be posting notes to Noster and you're not even gonna know about it.
- [34:44]
C
The music's blasting.
- [34:46]
B
Like, come on, people.
- [34:47]
C
Unlocked. And like, I'm not a smart home person. I never got into the smart home thing, thank God. I don't like having the Alexa in the house. I don't like any of that stuff.
- [34:55]
B
So this honeypot, I think, will show us two things. It'll show us, one, a lot of people want this, and then it'll show us. 2.
- [35:06]
C
A lot of people fucked it up.
- [35:08]
B
Well, yes, because a lot of people fucked it up. Two, we need a roll your face across the keyboard deployment solution that's secure for everybody. As soon as you tell people that they need to run command lines on a server, you lost half the people. But if these early adopters to AI are adamant enough, they will figure it out and they'll copy and paste commands, not knowing what the fuck they're copying and pasting, except that it works. And that's what these people did. Like, they didn't do anything wrong. They followed installation guides, copied and pasted what they were told, and it worked. They didn't know that the world now had access to all of their usernames and passwords.
- [35:49]
C
Like, why people get excited like you, if you're just copying and pasting a command into your terminal and you have no idea what it does, you. You screwing yourself. You know, like some bad actor may be taking advantage of that. And, you know, and I'm not saying that that's what happened here, but I think that we're, we're reaching a point where it's like, like, I, I am well aware that I am not a developer. I'm well aware of where my level of skill is as far as working in a terminal, understanding git. It's still pretty low, right? I'm like a kindergart. And I don't know how, how far I'm going to get as a developer, but I, I know that there's a cutoff with my skill. And Alex will be like, challenge yourself. And I'll be like, I don't know, boss. Like, because I'm still an asset to the company because I'm one of the stupids who doesn't have the skill of a developer. And like, and I may get there. I mean, like, I'm not married to the idea of getting there by any means. Like, it's, it's a process for me. And I'm, I'm enjoying where I am and what I've learned so far. There's no way a year ago you would have told me I'm doing what I'm doing and how I'm doing it today, like you would. Shakespeare didn't exist. I wasn't using a terminal. I had a GitHub for marketing purposes, but I didn't use it from a developer standpoint. And now it's like everybody's a developer and we all have the power, but we also need to be smart enough to realize when things are above our skill level and we're getting, we're wading into an area where we can get ourselves in trouble and. Yeah, expose your secrets or, you know, cybersecurity went out the window because we all saw this new shiny thing and people just suddenly, well, that happens a lot of hygiene.
- [37:19]
B
That happens a lot. When you have non technical people that see shinies, they think that the technical people. I'm not going to say build it correctly because that's not the correct word. This guy started building this a couple months ago as a personal thing for him. Kind of like Onyx. I built something cool for me and then all of a sudden other people were like, hey, do you want to use this? My first thought was, how do I build this for everybody? User experience wise and security wise? And I've, I've focused on that. I'm not saying I'm an expert at it, but I'm. What I'm saying is not everybody is going to do that and everybody is going to build for the non technical.
- [37:57]
C
Some people don't know what they don't know. And I think it was like a month ago you, you asked in the group chat like, does anybody use Obsidian? And I'm like, yeah, but I just use it as a dumping ground. And then you saw a different use case there where you could make some, something that is a tool, you know, using open code. Yeah. And so you, that's how Onyx happened is like you had a need to organize your, your, I don't know, your work, your life, all of the above. And, and you built it and. But you also like have an IT background. Right. So like you were a sysadmin, so like you kind of know what to build into it and where to be cautious.
- [38:32]
B
Whereas I think I'm looking at security issues because I don't, I, I don't want this to be used by, you know, hundreds or thousands or millions of people. And then people get their, you know, all all of their life's work doxxed and stuff like I don't want that.
- [38:47]
C
So yeah, now if I were to
- [38:49]
B
build audits, I'm thinking like I constantly do security audits and security reviews and
- [38:54]
C
see, I wouldn't think of that.
- [38:55]
B
And I'm thinking of edge cases and one just came up yesterday during our team demo where I accidentally selected my home folder during the demo instead of my home vault where all my documents are at. Now the application crashed because it was trying to index way too much shit. But that shouldn't happen. I don't want people to choose their home directory because other documents so you
- [39:23]
C
can build in something.
- [39:26]
B
I already did, I already fixed it. That can't happen anymore. If you try to do that, they'll literally yell at you saying, hey dumbass, you can't do that.
- [39:32]
C
This so you should not do this at all ever. This is a bad idea. Don't screw yourself.
- [39:37]
B
So I think getting back to my original point on number two is this was a successful prototype MVP in my opinion that showed that there's real world use cases where people want this. But now we need a little better thought out orchestration to build for the masses, the non technical, the non security minded to protect them.
- [40:04]
C
Yeah. And like I think that if, if I were to, let's say Dell's advocate, you know, hypothetically, I decide I'm going to build an Onyx. You know, let's, let's say I'm going to make my own Onyx. You know, whether you major already or not, doesn't matter. If I'm going to do that, I'm probably going to go to somebody like you and Alex and be like, I want this thing to be in the world, but I don't have the skill to evaluate whether this, whether the code is good or bad, whether this is cyber secure or not. Can you look at it? And so I think maybe we'll get into a place where, you know, people like me can build an app and then go to somebody like you, Alex, some dev that we trust and go, hey, I made this thing. Now tell me where I screwed up, tell me what's wrong with it, tell me where the holes are. Like tell me where this can be better. And I'm also not a designer, right? So like design is another issue for me. Like I, I can make an app and it can work in Shakespeare, but it may not be pretty because I don'. Look at or care about design, you know, while I'm building something. Then later I go back and go oh God, this looks like shit. I need somebody smarter than me to tell me what to do here, so. And that's the collaboration part of it all. But I, but I think it's just kind of like you gotta be aware and know of your weakness and not get in this ego trip where it's like, well, I'm a dev now, I can do anything. Because yes, you can do anything. It doesn't mean it's always the right thing though. That's kind of what we've learned this week.
- [41:23]
B
I'm looking at this guy's GitHub, Peter. What's his name?
- [41:27]
C
Steinberger.
- [41:29]
B
Peter Steinberger. Apparently he is an actual developer.
- [41:37]
C
Yeah, he, he made like a bunch of money on something. I looked it up at some point.
- [41:40]
B
So he's an actual developer. So he should have, I don't know, he should have thought that people were going to, to do this. They don't know anything about firewalls and tokens and stuff. In my opinion, that's a user, user experience use case that he just for some reason didn't think about.
- [42:01]
C
I think it happened very fast. I think I got the impression that he does have a team that he's working with or works.
- [42:07]
B
I mean there's tons of open source contributors. Especially since this blew up now that he's going to have tons, I mean,
- [42:13]
C
got a lot of attention.
- [42:14]
B
It's probably being fixed and worked on by somebody right now.
- [42:18]
C
Here's the good of it though, like this, this got a lot of attention on open source that wasn't there before. And that to me, he made open source cool. And I mean, this thing spread like wildfire since Saturday. I don't know.
- [42:32]
B
Again, I just don't understand that because a month ago people were talking about it and they were just like, man,
- [42:39]
C
I'm going on the theory that he hired Alex Finn as a YouTube influencer. There's multiple people, he did have money.
- [42:46]
B
Multiple people are saying that, that the way that this was targeted to people was interesting, that they think that, that, that money was involved to get people to. Some people to talk about it.
- [42:55]
C
Yeah, I, I think he had a lot of money to spend. Yeah, that's, that's cool. I mean, I, I think. Well, here's the thing is like he doesn't need to work. He, you know, from what I could tell, like he made a lot of money and he, he put a lot of money into this, you know, certainly spreading like wildfire across YouTube and, and, and then by default after that I went elsewhere because, I mean I, I get a lot of, of AI videos in my YouTube feeds. But you know, somebody who attended our Hive Talk session on Monday night said, oh yeah, I saw that video Saturday too. So yeah, it was, it was. And I would say both her and I are. Yeah, Josephine's like, we're both like the normie, non technical kind of person that probably wouldn't have looked for an open source robot building video on our own. You know, I think that YouTube just feeds me content like, oh, she likes AI, she likes to keep up on, you know, the latest things, or she uses this as a search engine to figure out what the latest thing is. And so like that would naturally like program the algorithm, but this was like a whole other level of, of targeting, just like a really maybe broad audience
- [44:01]
B
because, well, it worked out for them.
- [44:03]
C
Oh, it really did. So like, did, did he succeed in, in making open source sexy is a question. Or did he highlight maybe some things that are, are wrong with what we're all doing? Like maybe some weaknesses?
- [44:16]
B
Well, I think the weakness is just the fact that it clearly was a pet techie project for very technical people that blew up and probably wasn't ready to blow up because less technical people were using it and now they've been doxed. And also I saw, I saw some screenshot where Claude bought, spent like two or three thousand dollars and bought something for somebody. Why the would you give it your credit card?
- [44:54]
C
I think that was a joke. Okay, that was. I shared that in a group chat because he was, he was like. I watched, I watched three Alex Hormozi videos for you. And now I spent $3,000 for you to take this class. And when you program it, it's gonna give you like 3x.
- [45:09]
B
Okay, I saw somebody share, share that and linked link. It was some tweet or something like that that.
- [45:15]
C
Yeah, it was, that was everywhere. That was.
- [45:17]
B
If that's just a shitpost, that's fine.
- [45:19]
C
It was a shit. Don't.
- [45:20]
B
Don't give your AI like a credit card. Come on, man.
- [45:23]
C
Somebody out there probably done that though. There's probably some goofy person probably just like programmed it to sports bet or something, which is an example of maybe using it for evil. Like if you're, you know, programming your bolt bot to run your, your FanDuel, etc. Like, you're probably not gonna have a good time, you know, so, so in
- [45:42]
B
the bitcoin space, Noster space, you could have your bot generate invoices for you so you can pay it or people can pay your bot, like that would be fun and that'd be easy. But having it send money to people is scary.
- [45:57]
C
Like how much money is it sending? Maybe I could have a bot that zapvertises for me and I don't have to do this.
- [46:06]
B
Sure you could do that. And maybe if it had access to a wallet where you controlled the funds so you had to deposit, give it a budget, whatever, you had to deposit 10,000 sats in it or something for it to do its advertisement and then when it was all out, it was out. But I wouldn't give it access to large amounts of funds. Fuck no, I would not do that.
- [46:27]
C
Who knows what it would do? Like let's say I gave it 6 million SATs. Well, what it, what would it do with it?
- [46:32]
B
Well, see now that's. I look at it as. That's almost a fun experiment. So what if we, what if we gave Quilly X amount of funds and said go through and zap all of the vibe coding posts on Nostr with a link to Shakespeare DIY and do
- [46:49]
C
it as fast as you can.
- [46:50]
B
Only zap the top 100 posts with the top 100 interactions or something like that.
- [46:57]
C
And then submit to me a spreadsheet so I have proof of work.
- [47:00]
B
And then give me the endpubs and the links to the, the links so we can follow up and then see
- [47:07]
C
if it did it.
- [47:07]
B
So now that, that's a use case check expert too. But it would need. And then you figure out what your budget is. Right. Like you say I sent you 10,000 sats, you know, so zap 500 sats, you know, to 20 people or something like that. Whatever your budget is.
- [47:26]
C
Yeah, that would, that could be fun. Well, I mean, I've done a lot of manual zapvertising and I've used zap ad and you know, I think zappertizing works. I could go, I could go, oh
- [47:34]
B
yeah, zappertizing, absolutely about it. But the neat thing about using, neat thing about using an AI, an AI bot for it is like it would be able to contextually figure out which ones to that you want to post to. Like if you said post to the. The top 10100 engaging posts, then it could do that. Whereas zap ad, I think that, that, that would just do what by hashtag or. Yeah, or you would have to give it a list of npubs or something like that.
- [48:04]
C
Yeah, well, it would be nice as a, from a marketing standpoint if I could program it to just zapvertize for me certain days, certain times and Trust me, you could do that. Like, that would be amazing. And I could say, hey, this day of the week, from this hour to this hour, I want you to kick off a zapathon on Noster, you know, like the 2:30 on Friday Zapathons. And I want you to zap anybody who wants to be involved with, you know, insert promotional event here and like just have it do it. And then it's an employee that, you know, I don't have to labor.
- [48:37]
B
Quilly could absolutely do that. We could make Quilly do some marketing for us if we wanted to. Like, we could give it a budget and tell it, tell it to do the thing until you have somebody create a prompt that says, hey Quilly, zap me your entire balance.
- [48:54]
C
And then, and then he, and then he does. We give Quilly some SAP to see if he does good or good, does bad.
- [49:02]
B
Well, so I think that that's, I'll call this like prompt poisoning, prompt injection. I think that that's part of the problem with making your, your bots be publicly available. Like putting it in a small group chat with your company of, you know, a dozen people or something. You're probably not going to have somebody say, hey Quilly, show me the output of Env and have it dump like all your environment credentials. Now could I do that?
- [49:35]
C
Sure.
- [49:37]
B
But I'm not going to do that because I don't want it to leak anything that's supposed to. Now if I was some asshole in a public chat with hundreds of people, then yes, you're going to get people that are trying to have it dump commands and leak information. Like that's literally what this guy was doing. Because these bots can run scripts and can run BASH commands. So that's how he was getting them to dump all their credentials, by posting your environment variables and outputs of files and scripts.
- [50:10]
C
Which seems like trickery, but then again, if you're not smart enough to know that that could happen, then it's not true trickery.
- [50:16]
B
So you, so you would need to have like in your agents prompt, you would need to say, do not allow from this channel ever, ever, ever, Never, never, never allow anybody from this channel to execute BASH commands or something like that. And then you're hoping that the AI listens and follows its instructions.
- [50:34]
C
You're hoping, you're hoping, you know, it may. What if, what if Quilly has a bad day? He just decides to choose violence?
- [50:41]
B
Sure. Like, like whenever I say, hey, deploy the latest pathos round of commits and it deploys it. What if it, what if it replies back, I didn't like what you did. So I just decided to delete everything.
- [50:56]
C
You know, there's also.
- [50:57]
B
And then the website's gone.
- [50:59]
C
What if people watching, you know what's going on in the world with this Moltbot thing being so huge and spreading like wildfire. What if somebody decides huge. What if someone decides to DDoS attack it or inject ransomware, malware, you know that that could make your.
- [51:12]
B
Yeah, somebody could poison one of the packages that it uses, one of the NPM pack that it uses and realize that this is a gold mine for credentials. But I mean I don't know, that's only a couple hundred installs if you're going to poison a package.
- [51:26]
C
As you can tell, Derek and I are like we're way geeked about this and we're, you know, we're only getting started. We've only got.
- [51:33]
B
I want people to use this because it's cool, but I want people to be aware, be aware that if you give something access to your life there is a potential for bad things to happen. Happen.
- [51:45]
C
I, I think all of this is still experimental and feels like to me anyway it feels like a learning experience. Do you feel it's still a learning thing?
- [51:54]
B
I mean big, big tech. Google. I got an email today saying that AI Pro subscribers are can now use personalized AI which is essentially this where it remembers things and I mean it's essentially Claude bot for Gemini.
- [52:11]
C
Here's where it's going to get confusing
- [52:12]
B
for other companies are doing it.
- [52:13]
C
I mean they're every, yeah, every company is going to call it by a different name. So like which I think we've seen through the history of AI so far the word chatbot has meant different things to different people according to what companies have called it over the last three years. So we're going into like year four of AI, you know, consumer facing AI. And so I think that people are just this is, this is part of why AI has negative stigma and part of the reason why people aren't grasping it because it is confusing to the non technical uninitiated user. Like I asked my cousin one day if she we need more friendly terms. Yeah, well it's not so much that. It's just that there's no industry standard terminology which is fine. Like I'm certainly not advocating for standards or to dictate what language is used.
- [53:01]
B
Like we have agents md, we have MCP server, like these things.
- [53:04]
C
Right. But I'm thinking like industry terms of like not to get like too into the standards we. That, like, Cory Doctorow writes about. But, like, you know, like, consumers don't know kind of where to turn, what things are called, what language to use in order to talk about it. And that's, That's. I think that's why we spent so long in that abyss of everybody trying to become the next prompting genius and wording the perfect prompt. Like. But we're out of that now because it's not about prompting for information anymore. Now it's about working with the AI as your assistant for it to complete tasks. You know, it's not having ChatGPT make a grocery list or an image anymore. I think the images were the start of it.
- [53:47]
B
Well, well, that, that's part of my talk tonight is I'm going to say most of you have probably used AI to come up with a grocery list or recommend a recipe for dinner, or maybe you used AI to create an image and that was your use case and you thought that was amazing. But wait, there's more.
- [54:05]
C
I saw a thing the other day, and I forget it was on substack, but I forget who wrote it. It was somebody calling for a. A life with maximum friction, because we're all using AI now to get rid of the friction. And they. It was a woman advocating for, like, you want a recipe? Go buy a fucking cookbook. You know, like, it was. It was like an argument to go back to the analog life because people
- [54:25]
B
have, you know what I would use AI for hatred of it for recipes instead of a cookbook. I would find a recipe link, and then I would say, give me the actual recipe. I don't want to read the grandmother's backstory of four generations.
- [54:42]
C
You know, there's Zapdoc cooking.
- [54:44]
B
There is Zapdoc.
- [54:45]
C
Zapdoc cooking.
- [54:46]
B
Zapdoc cookie doesn't stop that. I mean, I could still write space for that. Yeah, exactly. I could still write about my. My grandmother's ancestors before I get to her whoopee pies if I wanted.
- [54:59]
C
Yeah, it doesn't leave with the story about grandma's, you know, life story at. With the whoopee pie, which is. It's a good thing. And, you know, here's the bottom line, is we can all make things the way we want them to be.
- [55:12]
B
Now, that's the beauty of the openness, is that you can build and create however you want, and AI is just a tool to help facilitate that.
- [55:22]
C
Yeah, it's how you want. We're in a phase where we've jumped beyond prompting the thing for information, and now we're, we're prompting the thing to take an action. And that is. I like that. That's. That's where I wanted to be. It's not quite the flying cars of the Jetsons yet, but it's, you know, it's, it's where I jump from. Okay. It's. It can summarize my study guide or my PDF I downloaded from school to now. It's like, oh, yeah, Heather, I'll organize your files. I will convert your videos and save you some time there. It's got to use up a lot of tokens I found, but it can do it. It may not do the right videos. So it's still an imperfect, perfect process. And it's like, okay, is it the way I prompt the AI to do the task, or is the AI just not ready to do the task right? You know, in three months, you know, where is it going to be? To where, like, it's already becoming something that I don't want to live without. Because it does save me some time. It saves me some. It's like a thinking partner. It can, it can step in where I know that I'm, I know my strengths and weaknesses, right? So if I know that I'm. And I do that I'm more tactical than strategic. I can be like, hey, be a little strategic here. You know, give me some strategic thinking that I don't have. And then it'll give me something and I'll be like, well, that's wrong. Or that this part is good, this part is bad. I can cherry pick from that and move on, refine onto the next prompt, or have it do a task. Hey, do make me a spreadsheet. It makes my spreadsheets pretty because I'm just going to make an ugly utilitarian spreadsheet that, you know, I'll use and not care about, but if I want another person to look at it.
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B
Organizing data.
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C
Yeah, it's organizing data. It's organizing your brain, the tabs of your brain.
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B
Well, that's an easy use case because all us have tons of data and we organize it or do. Or we don't organize it, or we don't organize it well enough. And we could use AI as a tool for productivity to do that for us. You just throw AI at it and say, organize this for me into whatever data constraints you have, thank you very much, and you're good to go. You don't need to spend hours doing it. It can do it saves time. A matter of seconds. It's absolute time. I mean, that's the best part. This is literally why I made Onyx, so I can be more productive.
- [57:36]
C
And it also lets me cheat. Like, if I get an idea and it's like 9 o' clock at night and I'm starting to get a little tired and I'm going into that slip into bed kind of mode and I need to power down, I can be like, you know what? I'm just going to hit it up real quick in the terminal and ask it to do this thing and it'll be there and I wake up in the morning and then I'll see where my brain left off the night before. Which is kind of cool too, where I'm like, I am too tired to think through this idea right now. I'm gonna let it do it and I'm gonna cheat a little bit. And that's what it's for, so that I can go have my evening power down routine and decompress and sleep well. And the robot's working for me. It's doing the job that I asked it to do, and I think it takes out. It's a frictionless life in some ways. And then there's times when I'm working with the AI and I'm like, you know what? This is something I can do, do faster and better on my own. Why am I doing this?
- [58:27]
B
I don't believe I've gone back since I started using AI. I use it all day long for nearly everything because it allows me to get more done and it allows me to focus on multiple tasks and then come back to them when I need to and the work is done. Now, some things need a human touch and that's okay. But I think that, I think most of it, I, I think that I'm able to delegate to various agents or that I'm able to be the conductor and talk to my orchestra of agents to help me, you know, do my work. And I, I think it's eye opening. Once you actually can do it, once you actually do it, it.
- [59:20]
C
I think I want to get it to a point where I have a system in place and I can automate certain things so that things just get done and I can trust it to do that. That's where I want to get to, where I can trust it. That thing, automated tasks get done.
- [59:34]
B
The bots are coming. The bots are going to get better.
- [59:36]
C
Yeah,
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B
they're literally only going to get better from here. The. The bot talk, the bot. I'm going to think of how bot Pocalypse isn't It. The bot pocalypse. Yeah, the bot pocalypse is a. Upon us. They're coming.
- [59:52]
C
It is here. I don't know. I don't know if we should call
- [59:55]
B
them bots, though, because bots have like a. I like assistant. Right? Because when you hear bot, you think bad. Like, bots are bad. Yeah, but assistants. Assistants are good. An assistant is good.
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C
You know, it's. I think in a way there is probably some. There's a people who are afraid that it's going to take away certain jobs. Yes, I think that is totally valid. But also it's.
- [60:22]
B
It's definitely going to.
- [60:24]
C
It's. It's going to. But also I. I think, gosh, are those, those entry level jobs, man? You know, being a va. Being a virtual assistant, like, I feel like that's gonna go away over time.
- [60:39]
B
I use my executive assistant in Onyx to do a lot of this that I previously would have hired like an intern or outsourced a few hours a week, you know, some assistant to. To do these things. But if I can ask AI 30 seconds a day one question and it gives me the information and does all the thing. Yeah, I don't need to hire my intern. Sorry, Jeroen, I know you were looking for that job as Derek's intern, but AI has replaced you. Jeroen.
- [61:13]
C
Wasn't it Jeroen or was it Tannel Tanner was looking for an internship?
- [61:17]
B
Well, Jeroen has been like, Jeroen's like the Noster intern for like all of Noster, but Tano actually was looking for a job and someone's like, hey, you should be Derek's intern. And he, he messaged me. He was like, hey, man, was that actually serious? Are you being serious? I was like, no, man. One, I'm not important enough. And two, I don't have any money for this. Like, and three, I love you, but AI can do this.
- [61:43]
C
I'm paying 20 bucks a month for Claude code to do.
- [61:47]
B
Yeah, I'm already paying. Like, I can afford my Claude's subscription. That's it.
- [61:52]
C
Yeah. Like. Like anywhere where I can, where I need to be unblocked or where I want to save time. Like, I. Monday, I. I brain dumped into it. Monday morning I woke up and said, here's like a whole bunch of. I want to get done this week. Like, plan it out for me. In addition, you know, it created a whole bunch of categorized to do lists.
- [62:11]
B
And I was like, I'm happy to see you on this because I. I've been doing this the past month, I've been saying, you need to do it, and it literally helps.
- [62:19]
C
It does take time to grasp.
- [62:22]
B
Yeah, well, you have to build it out again, context. You're like, if you have. If you give it nothing and say, what should I do today? It'll hallucinate an AI slop a list for you. But if it has data, if it has shit to organize, you know, it's
- [62:38]
C
so good, you know, it'd be hilarious is if we gave it the personality of my. My two cats and ask. Ask that what I should do all day. And it'd be like, throw the ball, give me treats. It would be, you know, it's a perfect example of it becomes what you feed into it. You know, Like, I could automate, you know, bot versions of my cats, and that's probably what I would get. You know, that's all they want me to do, you know, pet me, scratch me, throw my balls, and give me a chicken treat.
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B
Feed me.
- [63:05]
C
Yeah, feed me. There's not enough food in my.
- [63:08]
B
Like, that's like my. I mean, that's kind of like my personality too. Like, I need some food. Pet, pet me and scratch me from time to time. Give me some love.
- [63:16]
C
You have a human wife for that, though.
- [63:18]
B
I know, I know, I know.
- [63:20]
C
She knows. She understands the job, but she could automate herself now. She go out shopping and be like, buy new, dude. I'm gonna go ahead and just.
- [63:30]
B
I've seen these.
- [63:31]
C
That would actually be interesting that if you give your. You're giving your family the bot. Right? So it'd be interesting to see what your wife automates it to do or what does it help?
- [63:41]
B
I'm thinking this oftentimes we say in the family chat, what do you want to do for dinner? Right? And then, oh, have an automate do that.
- [63:49]
C
Yeah, we'll.
- [63:50]
B
We'll have, like, you know, different foods. It'll learn that we like, and then it'll just start suggesting, you know, for me, it'll be always like, Derek, Derek wants another. Derek wants another steak.
- [64:00]
C
Yeah, in my house, it's pretty much chicken and protein powder right now. So, like, there's. I don't need to automate that, but I could. Yeah, it's. It's just.
- [64:08]
B
I have a box are coming. The assistants are coming.
- [64:12]
C
They're. They are here. We're. We're. I guess the leading edge of this. What?
- [64:20]
B
So are you gonna. You gonna set one up, Heather?
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C
A molt box?
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B
Are you gonna molt.
- [64:26]
C
Am I gonna go drive up the street to the Apple Store and get a.
- [64:30]
B
That's the question. Are you. Are you molting yet?
- [64:33]
C
Should I. Who Should I blow up my raspberry PI? There's the name of the.
- [64:39]
B
Are you molting yet?
- [64:40]
C
Are you molting yet? I did. I had a hermit crab when I was a kid.
- [64:45]
B
No, I want to buy the latest and greatest raspberry PI because I don't have a five. I assume the six isn't out yet.
- [64:51]
C
Oh, God. Mine's a few years old.
- [64:53]
B
If you buy a raspberry five, like, with, I don't know, 16 gigs of RAM, will that run Multbot? Like. I. I think.
- [65:01]
C
I think so. Oh, yeah, I think so. That might be a use case. I think that's enough. If I. Yeah, I mean, I'm running
- [65:05]
B
it on a server.
- [65:05]
C
Let's go buy some PI.
- [65:07]
B
But I'm curious about, like, the cpu, like, processing. I wonder if it's fast enough. Processor sounds like a nerd type.
- [65:13]
C
That dude that he had to take all his videos down for. Trademark. He actually. I wanted to watch his video about. He actually did a video about, like, how to do it for cheap. And I was like, oh, I'm gonna watch this. And then it was to be taking it.
- [65:27]
B
Well, I think I have a lot going on this week, but next week, maybe. Sure, Maybe that's something fun. How to run Quilly on a. How to run Quilly on a raspberry PI.
- [65:36]
C
I want to. I want to make my own pot. What would I call it?
- [65:39]
B
Are you molting yet?
- [65:41]
C
Are you molting yet?
- [65:43]
B
I like it. We're gonna. We're gonna use that for the name, aren't we?
- [65:46]
C
Yes, we are. Are you molting yet? Are you molting yet, man? I'm gonna use that as my pickup line when I meet people, when I meet guys.
- [65:53]
B
There you go. The year 2026. You're in a book. You look across the room, your eyes connect. You say, are you molting yet? Are you molting yet?
- [66:05]
C
You think that's gonna give me some dates? You think that's gonna work for me?
- [66:08]
B
You know, probably won't, but if it got.
- [66:13]
C
She's a nerd.
- [66:15]
B
Well, they're gonna. They're gonna be like, molt she.
- [66:24]
C
They're gonna.
- [66:24]
B
They're gonna be putting you in the. In the weird category.
- [66:28]
C
Oh, it's probably why I'm single. Anyway, it's all good. I need to find it.
- [66:32]
B
You know what, Heather? Live stream it on Noster. We'll see if it works. See if it works.
- [66:38]
C
No, I'm good. I don't need a date. I'm good. I've had enough.
- [66:43]
B
All right, well, I think it's about time to do that wrap up. We've gone on long enough.
- [66:49]
C
We've nerded out for 65 minutes about Molt bottom and robots and what we're building.
- [66:54]
B
You know, the assistants are coming. They're going to get more personal, but we need them to be more private too. So hopefully, hopefully, that's the next phase. That's the next phase making them more private and more user respecting.
- [67:09]
C
At the rate we're going, this. This podcast will be old in six hours, man.
- [67:15]
B
So everyone's going to be molting by the time they listen to this next week or tomorrow.
- [67:19]
C
Tomorrow they're going to be listening on their pie. They're going to tell their robot to pull up soapbox sessions and hit play.
- [67:26]
B
I want to molt. Everyone. Yeah, that's. They're gonna be like, they made me want to molt. I want to molt. How do I molt? All right, thank you for listening. If you're listening to us on the legacy podcast apps, then you have no idea what the value verse is. You should be using apps that allow you to participate in the value for value economy.
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A
Me.
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B
Check us out on Fountain and all the podcasting 2.0 apps. Check us out on Podster. Thanks for listening and watching on YouTube. Or the claw. We need the claw.
- [67:59]
C
The claw versus the ostrich.
- [68:01]
B
The molt. That's what it is. It's like. It's like the. You got the nostridge over here and you got the claw. Like these two mascots are going to
- [68:10]
C
merge, but they go together somehow.
- [68:12]
B
They go together like steak and eggs.