Everything AI. The Good, The Bad, and The Scary

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Alright. This is NOT about:

  • Vaping
  • Mixing
  • DIY’ing

DISCLAIMER

I STRONGLY advise AGAINST installing, running, or using AI Agents on ANY production machines, or your personal use tech. A LOT of people ARE running these agents, BUT, doing it smartly on Mac Mini’s.

https://www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/2026/02/openclaw-what-is-it-and-can-you-use-it-safely

BUT, pretty damned interesting, and wanted to share it with you. If you think, that AI is simply the small, friendly, answer in a box bot like you’ve probably already used, like Chat GPT, Google Gemini, or others, … think again. Ian REALLY broke this down, and even if you don’t even know about the different levels of AI, he makes it easy to understand. I think most of us know, if not suspect that AI is really going to change things, and already is. This isn’t really about doom’ing and gloom’ing, BUT, starting to EDUCATE yourselves on AI, would NOT be a bad idea.

I’m going to start this off with Ian’s video. A little long, BUT, not a waste of time, especially if you want to start to understand.

Following up on that with some tangentially related DGC facts. Be aware, and make/take your own conclusions.

Maybe you’re confused, on the fence, and am still wondering WTF, check out Moltbook, which is an actual Reddit like space FOR AI agents. First, an overview from Tom’s …

Humans can’t interact, but want to SEE what’s going on ?? Check it out for yourselves…

It’s coming whether we like it or not, so being knowledgeable, or at least aware, is never a bad idea. Remember way back when, when you didn’t want to learn or use email ?? Where would you be now ?

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https://www.fastcompany.com/91497841/meta-superintelligence-lab-ai-safety-alignment-director-lost-control-of-agent-deleted-her-emails

Screenshot 2026-02-28 at 09-39-32 Summer Yue on X Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac m...
Screenshot 2026-02-28 at 09-39-32 Summer Yue on X Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac m...969×755 152 KB

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Mornin’, SD. Thanks for assembling this info! I will read, and absorb it, as I’m able. I did come across an article, a couple of weeks ago, which I shared with a friend, and I’ll link to, here. Looks like I’ve fallen behind the curve, in hesitating to finally ‘86’ my Win10 machine. @woftam had offered a means of updating my machine to Win11, some time back…which would allow me to continue using the outdated MB/Processor config that I built this desktop with, several years ago.

But, from my initial read of your post, simply updating my OS will not afford me adequate protection from this new tech(AI), that is quickly coming to fruition. Though I’m a long time user of MWB, it sounds like I should’ve also jumped onboard the Apple train when it was fresh in my mind, month’s ago! Hindsight is 20/20, lol.

The article, which I found very interesting…

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Great article @whthek.

I should be clear about something up front: even though I work in AI, I have almost no influence over what’s about to happen, and neither does the vast majority of the industry. The future is being shaped by a remarkably small number of people: a few hundred researchers at a handful of companies… OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind, and a few others.

But it’s time now. Not in an “eventually we should talk about this” way. In a “this is happening right now and I need you to understand it” way.

I am no longer needed for the actual technical work of my job. I describe what I want built, in plain English, and it just… appears. Not a rough draft I need to fix. The finished thing. I tell the AI what I want, walk away from my computer for four hours, and come back to find the work done. Done well, done better than I would have done it myself, with no corrections needed. A couple of months ago, I was going back and forth with the AI, guiding it, making edits. Now I just describe the outcome and leave.

I’ve always been early to adopt AI tools. But the last few months have shocked me. These new AI models aren’t incremental improvements. This is a different thing entirely.

The experience that tech workers have had over the past year, of watching AI go from “helpful tool” to “does my job better than I do”, is the experience everyone else is about to have.

“But I tried AI and it wasn’t that good”

I hear this constantly. I understand it, because it used to be true.

If you tried ChatGPT in 2023 or early 2024 and thought “this makes stuff up” or “this isn’t that impressive”, you were right. Those early versions were genuinely limited. They hallucinated. They confidently said things that were nonsense.

That was two years ago. In AI time, that is ancient history.

Part of the problem is that most people are using the free version of AI tools. The free version is over a year behind what paying users have access to. Judging AI based on free-tier ChatGPT is like evaluating the state of smartphones by using a flip phone. The people paying for the best tools, and actually using them daily for real work, know what’s coming.

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More highlights from @whthek’s article posted above …

What you should actually do:

  • Start using AI seriously, not just as a search engine.
  • This might be the most important year of your career. Work accordingly.
  • Have no ego about it.
  • Get your financial house in order.
  • Think about where you stand, and lean into what’s hardest to replace.
  • Rethink what you’re telling your kids.
  • Your dreams just got a lot closer.
  • Build the habit of adapting.

What I know

I know this isn’t a fad. The technology works, it improves predictably, and the richest institutions in history are committing trillions to it.

I know the next two to five years are going to be disorienting in ways most people aren’t prepared for. This is already happening in my world. It’s coming to yours.

I know the people who will come out of this best are the ones who start engaging now — not with fear, but with curiosity and a sense of urgency.

And I know that you deserve to hear this from someone who cares about you, not from a headline six months from now when it’s too late to get ahead of it.

We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet.

It’s about to.

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Thanks Brian. I’ve cross linked it, and hit you up on the Props-O-Meter …

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*** Disclaimer ***

I cannot, and do not recommend installing any AI Agents on production machines, or personal tech. Just because who the F knows at this point, BUT, if you’ve got some alt tech, maybe one that DOESN’T have all of your personal info, bank accounts (LOL), important emails on, you know.

Trust MAY come LOL.

https://claude.ai/login

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Any old Quake’ers here ??

https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1rhjgvj/asked_claude_to_port_quake_to_threejs/

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