Ariel Diaz

Video · July 29, 2026 · 29 min

Introducing HumanwareOS

A Slack-first operating system for directing AI agents without carrying every session in your head.

The argument

The bottleneck moved from software capability to human attention.

AI makes parallel work cheap. Following dozens of chats, tools, agents, permissions, and decisions does not become cheap with it. HumanwareOS keeps the human close to priorities and taste while agents handle execution.

Four layers

A human-scale control plane

01HumanTaste · priority · authority
02SlackThreads · status · context
03OpenClawRouting · tools · permissions
04Agents + memoryExecution that outlives a session

Operating model

More concurrent work, less context held in one head

Chat-first toolsHuman tracks sessions
HumanwareOSSystem tracks state

Conceptual model from the talk—not a measured performance claim.

2named agents
1thread per session
30threads managed on a busy day

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Key moments

The problem · 0:50

Technology finally works for us

“For tech, most of the time, we have to work for tech… But now, the computers speak our language.”

The interface · 7:29

Slack as the breakthrough

“Slack has spent years—decade plus at this point—building a refined user experience for how people work.”

The thesis · 27:19

Humans remain in the orchestration layer

“Humans are still going to be an important part of that orchestration layer—from a taste standpoint, from a priority standpoint.”

Why it matters · 28:17

Humans care about humans

“No matter how good the technology is, humans care about other humans… and they care about being a better human.”

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Transcript

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  1. NaN:NaN All right.
  2. NaN:NaN Here we go.
  3. NaN:NaN We got everything going.
  4. NaN:NaN So first of all, I'm Ariel Diaz.
  5. NaN:NaN I'm a serial technology entrepreneur.
  6. NaN:NaN I've been building software and a bunch of other products for 15, 20 years.
  7. NaN:NaN And obviously, as everybody knows, this is the most fun time to be building...
  8. NaN:NaN Move my microphone up a little.
  9. NaN:NaN The most fun time to be building software.
  10. NaN:NaN And it's the most fun time to be building software and using software because tech, for the first time, works for us.
  11. NaN:NaN For tech, most of the time, we have to work for tech.
  12. NaN:NaN We have to learn some language, some coding, some terminal, and some new metaphor.
  13. NaN:NaN But now, the computers speak our language, which I talked about last time in the voice's vernacular.
  14. NaN:NaN So today, I want to introduce this new project I've been working on, like everybody else.
  15. NaN:NaN It's called Humanware OS.
  16. NaN:NaN And it focuses primarily on the context engineering and cognitive overhead of managing so many AI sessions.
  17. NaN:NaN So AI makes us so much more productive, but the bottleneck is still what you can hold in your head, what you can manage at the same time concurrently.
  18. NaN:NaN So that's what I want to walk through.
  19. NaN:NaN And first, I'll start with the challenge.
  20. NaN:NaN Again, this story is...
  21. NaN:NaN Everybody's building this.
  22. NaN:NaN I don't think I'm unique, but I thought I'm challenging myself to get this out there.
  23. NaN:NaN And I built this, again, in service of myself and the other projects I'm working on.
  24. NaN:NaN So the challenges with traditional tools.
  25. NaN:NaN First is you have some pretty nice single-player mode tools, obviously, the chat interface.
  26. NaN:NaN And you have some pretty solid team-wide AI tools and infrastructure.
  27. NaN:NaN But the problem with the single-player mode tools is you lose context very quickly.
  28. NaN:NaN You have too many chats, too many projects, too many work.
  29. NaN:NaN And I found it really difficult to manage dozens of sessions in Cloud Code and Codex at the same time with a limited amount of notifications,
  30. NaN:NaN a limited amount of visual awareness of what's happening.
  31. NaN:NaN And I just felt like I was constantly context switching.
  32. NaN:NaN I tried a bunch of tools, Conductor and Superset, which help you manage parallel coding environments and sessions, especially with work trees.
  33. NaN:NaN I found them helpful and better than the native Codex or Cloud Code apps because it felt more efficient to manage multiple coding sessions.
  34. NaN:NaN But it was kind of limited to that.
  35. NaN:NaN And one worked over SSH, one didn't.
  36. NaN:NaN And, you know, it was kind of a little limiting.
  37. NaN:NaN Then I got obsessed for a few weeks with Paperclip.
  38. NaN:NaN Paperclipping, I think, is the website.
  39. NaN:NaN I'll put some links in there.
  40. NaN:NaN So I got obsessed with Paperclip because the mental model and the agent model with Paperclip was an org structure.
  41. NaN:NaN And I'm a three-time founder CEO.
  42. NaN:NaN I've started other projects and companies beyond that.
  43. NaN:NaN And an org structure made a lot of sense for me to think about how to structure agents.
  44. NaN:NaN Because what are agents?
  45. NaN:NaN Agents are a skill set, a set of permissions, a set of context.
  46. NaN:NaN And you execute that.
  47. NaN:NaN And then you do the results.
  48. NaN:NaN And an org is that, right?
  49. NaN:NaN You have a set of permissions and authority.
  50. NaN:NaN You have a set of skills.
  51. NaN:NaN You have a set of tools that you use.
  52. NaN:NaN A set of, you know, interfaces and interactions that you have.
  53. NaN:NaN And you know who to give a given task to simply by their title in most instances.
  54. NaN:NaN Especially if you're the CEO, you kind of have to.
  55. NaN:NaN And, you know, if I'm going to run a new marketing campaign, then I'm going to give it to the marketing manager, not the CMO.
  56. NaN:NaN If we already have established the brand and the audience and everything else.
  57. NaN:NaN Versus if we're trying to redefine our brand, obviously we need the CMO and the designer.
  58. NaN:NaN So, thinking about managing projects in the context of an org structure made a ton of sense to me.
  59. NaN:NaN So, Paperclip has that mental model.
  60. NaN:NaN And I spun it up on the Mac Mini.
  61. NaN:NaN And I started working on doing some projects.
  62. NaN:NaN And I came across a few kind of key problems.
  63. NaN:NaN One is it kind of spun up too many tasks too quickly.
  64. NaN:NaN Which was just harder to follow.
  65. NaN:NaN I didn't like the document model.
  66. NaN:NaN It's a, it's a, all the documents live on tasks.
  67. NaN:NaN Which felt weird to me versus kind of living in their own independent spot.
  68. NaN:NaN So, it was an abstraction.
  69. NaN:NaN And I'm all for abstraction if it's the right level of abstraction.
  70. NaN:NaN And this one didn't feel like it was quite the right level of abstraction.
  71. NaN:NaN So, get some water.
  72. NaN:NaN So, I fell out of love with Paperclip.
  73. NaN:NaN But as I was using it, I learned a lot about the structure and the different frameworks.
  74. NaN:NaN And everything is evolving so quickly.
  75. NaN:NaN You know, this is now July 29th.
  76. NaN:NaN And I put on cringe in a few months when this is woefully out of date.
  77. NaN:NaN But the mental model and the soul and the culture felt, you know, opinionated.
  78. NaN:NaN Which I appreciated.
  79. NaN:NaN But a different opinion than what I wanted.
  80. NaN:NaN And one of them that I'll kind of do a little mini rabbit hole on.
  81. NaN:NaN One of the lines in one of the agent configurations was, never ask a human to do what an agent can do.
  82. NaN:NaN Which reminds me of The Matrix.
  83. NaN:NaN My favorite movie of all time.
  84. NaN:NaN And, you know, don't send a, there's a great quote from Agent Smith.
  85. NaN:NaN Never send a human to do an agent's job.
  86. NaN:NaN And I don't know if it's intentional for Paperclip.
  87. NaN:NaN I assume, I hope it is.
  88. NaN:NaN It's a nice little nod.
  89. NaN:NaN But I'm on Team Human.
  90. NaN:NaN So I'm like, dodge this Paperclip.
  91. NaN:NaN And then I'm saying, that's not the culture I want.
  92. NaN:NaN I want to have very close contact with the decisions we're making.
  93. NaN:NaN The sequencing.
  94. NaN:NaN The fidelity.
  95. NaN:NaN And so that wasn't for me.
  96. NaN:NaN I love the vision.
  97. NaN:NaN And nothing else.
  98. NaN:NaN But it wasn't for me.
  99. NaN:NaN So, then I was like, well, I'm just going to build my own Notion workflow.
  100. NaN:NaN And I started building, you know, the Kanban and the details and the interface.
  101. NaN:NaN And it just was so much friction.
  102. NaN:NaN So I was like, ah.
  103. NaN:NaN I kept trying stuff.
  104. NaN:NaN And then I'm sitting there trying to parallel process.
  105. NaN:NaN Build a few products and apps, which I'll be releasing pretty soon.
  106. NaN:NaN While building the system that builds the apps, right?
  107. NaN:NaN Like the machine that builds the machine.
  108. NaN:NaN And I just had so much friction that I kept going back and forth between do I optimize my machine that's making the machine or do I work on the machine?
  109. NaN:NaN And it felt like, well, the tech is moving so fast that if I just step back for a couple of weeks, I'll be moving much faster.
  110. NaN:NaN And that's where I landed, which is amazing.
  111. NaN:NaN So, again, this video is like as much for me as it is for anyone else.
  112. NaN:NaN Organize some of my thoughts.
  113. NaN:NaN Organize this project.
  114. NaN:NaN Land it.
  115. NaN:NaN Put it out there.
  116. NaN:NaN But mainly I've already won because this is making me more productive than I've ever been.
  117. NaN:NaN And you'll see in the demo.
  118. NaN:NaN But it feels like I have a 20 or 30 person team.
  119. NaN:NaN I mean, I've managed teams that size and bigger as a CEO.
  120. NaN:NaN And that's what it feels like.
  121. NaN:NaN I can just go and speak to the computer and kick off a bunch of tasks without this cognitive overhead of like where was I?
  122. NaN:NaN What's happening?
  123. NaN:NaN What's the status?
  124. NaN:NaN Do I have to keep the plate spinning?
  125. NaN:NaN And the breakthrough solution, which is obvious.
  126. NaN:NaN Everyone's going to have this breakthrough, including Jack Dorsey, who introduced Buzz like yesterday or today.
  127. NaN:NaN But the breakthrough is using Slack as the human interface.
  128. NaN:NaN Slack has spent years, decade plus at this point, building a refined user experience for how people work.
  129. NaN:NaN And how humans work, right?
  130. NaN:NaN And what's the context for?
  131. NaN:NaN What's the notification?
  132. NaN:NaN Amazing notification system.
  133. NaN:NaN Amazing threading and context.
  134. NaN:NaN Amazing context through channels and what you're aware of.
  135. NaN:NaN Integration with anything you want.
  136. NaN:NaN So, that was really the solution, the breakthrough.
  137. NaN:NaN And that enabled me to work on something that was like human-centric.
  138. NaN:NaN I didn't have to learn a new language.
  139. NaN:NaN I just been on a bunch of Slack teams.
  140. NaN:NaN So, now I run everything through Slack.
  141. NaN:NaN And again, I'll do some demos.
  142. NaN:NaN And it's just been amazing because I can jump ahead and do a bunch of different parallel sessions without just kind of being overwhelmed cognitively.
  143. NaN:NaN It's very opinionated.
  144. NaN:NaN It's very, again, it's custom.
  145. NaN:NaN And the irony with AI is that anyone can build something that's for them.
  146. NaN:NaN The question is, do we have, there's a great Onion article that the Middle East peace solution is defined with 317 million states.
  147. NaN:NaN And sometimes it feels like that's the direction that AI is going.
  148. NaN:NaN That we're going to end up having, everyone's going to build their own software.
  149. NaN:NaN And everyone's going to want everyone else to use it because they think it's so good, but it's so good for them.
  150. NaN:NaN So, this might end up in that trap, but it's great for me so far.
  151. NaN:NaN The other factors that I had in terms of what I wanted to build something, I wanted to build something that was platform agnostic.
  152. NaN:NaN So, with no vendor lock-in and no model lock-in.
  153. NaN:NaN Because, you know, there was something that I preferred with Codex and Cloud or Codex and GPT 5.6.
  154. NaN:NaN Sometimes I prefer Cloud Code and Fable.
  155. NaN:NaN Sometimes I have a Mac Mini that I want to see what it's capable of.
  156. NaN:NaN I know it'll be different, but for some high privacy things, that's important.
  157. NaN:NaN So, I wanted to be able to use any model, any harness.
  158. NaN:NaN I wanted to manage a bunch of different projects.
  159. NaN:NaN Some of them more work-related for my companies.
  160. NaN:NaN Some of them more personal.
  161. NaN:NaN Some of them more family.
  162. NaN:NaN Some of them have different groups of third-party outsiders into this Slack community, into this now Slack community.
  163. NaN:NaN And so, that was some of the constraints.
  164. NaN:NaN So, now, with that, again, the high-level thing.
  165. NaN:NaN So, what I've built, as many others have, is a Slack-first interface that runs on OpenClaw.
  166. NaN:NaN That have two defined agents that I've defined.
  167. NaN:NaN Runs on OpenClaw and interfaces with Cloud, ChatGPT, OpenCode, and OpenRouter.
  168. NaN:NaN And then gets me all the roles back through Slack.
  169. NaN:NaN So, let me...
  170. NaN:NaN That's the context.
  171. NaN:NaN Next.
  172. NaN:NaN Now, because a bunch of people have been asking for this, let's jump in.
  173. NaN:NaN So, I'm still getting better at my OBS studio management.
  174. NaN:NaN So, that's why I got to look down.
  175. NaN:NaN Okay, let's start with Slack.
  176. NaN:NaN Here we go.
  177. NaN:NaN Okay, cool.
  178. NaN:NaN So, now...
  179. NaN:NaN All right.
  180. NaN:NaN Perfect.
  181. NaN:NaN So, this is now...
  182. NaN:NaN I'm just going to...
  183. NaN:NaN I'm literally walking through what I'm building right now using the tool to get a real demo.
  184. NaN:NaN It's not a theoretical thing.
  185. NaN:NaN So, earlier today, I've got a content channel.
  186. NaN:NaN That's what I'm doing this current YouTube thing for.
  187. NaN:NaN And I was like, you know what?
  188. NaN:NaN I need a...
  189. NaN:NaN I need a thumbnail.
  190. NaN:NaN So, I took a couple of screenshots and said, hey, can you give me one?
  191. NaN:NaN Great.
  192. NaN:NaN Humanware.
  193. NaN:NaN Actually, you know, it's...
  194. NaN:NaN We don't...
  195. NaN:NaN We only...
  196. NaN:NaN We don't do all caps.
  197. NaN:NaN Great.
  198. NaN:NaN Ship it.
  199. NaN:NaN Locked.
  200. NaN:NaN Then what this does is, you can see I have this emoji language.
  201. NaN:NaN One of the great things about Slack.
  202. NaN:NaN And I basically have a status emoji.
  203. NaN:NaN I have four status.
  204. NaN:NaN Complete.
  205. NaN:NaN A question that's expected of me.
  206. NaN:NaN Which is a question mark.
  207. NaN:NaN Something I have to do as a human.
  208. NaN:NaN Like a key into Doppler.
  209. NaN:NaN Or just a status like, hey, this session's running.
  210. NaN:NaN No action needed.
  211. NaN:NaN It's who's doing it.
  212. NaN:NaN I have two agents.
  213. NaN:NaN Liv and Max.
  214. NaN:NaN Liv is my personal chief of staff.
  215. NaN:NaN She's a blue butterfly.
  216. NaN:NaN She's kind of always around me.
  217. NaN:NaN Max is an orange-red fox.
  218. NaN:NaN He's the CEO of my companies and projects.
  219. NaN:NaN And this one is using Cloud Code and Sol.
  220. NaN:NaN Sorry, Codex and Sol.
  221. NaN:NaN And you can see...
  222. NaN:NaN So there.
  223. NaN:NaN That's a pretty easy thread.
  224. NaN:NaN Done.
  225. NaN:NaN And I get a quick...
  226. NaN:NaN A little brief summary at the end of each thread.
  227. NaN:NaN And each thread is equivalent to one session.
  228. NaN:NaN But the thing is, it doesn't have to be only coding.
  229. NaN:NaN Again, this is a little marketing task.
  230. NaN:NaN Because the thing that I ran into before is if every...
  231. NaN:NaN And even if you do work in the folders,
  232. NaN:NaN I think folders as a metaphor are going away.
  233. NaN:NaN And everyone's been trying to figure out what comes after file folders.
  234. NaN:NaN And so even working in folders, fine.
  235. NaN:NaN It's not great.
  236. NaN:NaN I don't love Google Docs and Drive.
  237. NaN:NaN I definitely don't like the Microsoft ecosystem.
  238. NaN:NaN So I've just been like kind of trying to figure that out.
  239. NaN:NaN So now another one.
  240. NaN:NaN So now I said, great for humanware.
  241. NaN:NaN We got to do a website.
  242. NaN:NaN I just got this humanware OS domain on Cloudflare.
  243. NaN:NaN And I'll come back to this.
  244. NaN:NaN It's not as distracting.
  245. NaN:NaN But yeah, here we go.
  246. NaN:NaN Okay, cool.
  247. NaN:NaN I'll show you.
  248. NaN:NaN So anyway, so we got...
  249. NaN:NaN Hey, here's this outline.
  250. NaN:NaN This is the outline of this video I'm walking through now.
  251. NaN:NaN Right?
  252. NaN:NaN Some intro to the challenge.
  253. NaN:NaN What the vision was.
  254. NaN:NaN The demo building itself.
  255. NaN:NaN And then I'm going to walk through some of the key features.
  256. NaN:NaN And then I'll come back to the actual architecture that this is all running on.
  257. NaN:NaN Boom.
  258. NaN:NaN So now Max, he gives me a little preview with the repo.
  259. NaN:NaN It's on GitHub.
  260. NaN:NaN And all this is...
  261. NaN:NaN Because all these are pre-connected.
  262. NaN:NaN And this is not...
  263. NaN:NaN I mean, it's not rocket science.
  264. NaN:NaN A lot of people are doing this.
  265. NaN:NaN I'm not saying this is the most unique thing in the world.
  266. NaN:NaN But it works very well for me.
  267. NaN:NaN And it's pretty opinionated for my framework.
  268. NaN:NaN So now let's go ahead and change my window to Safari.
  269. NaN:NaN So this is what, with that outline, what Max created for me.
  270. NaN:NaN Okay.
  271. NaN:NaN Now it works for you.
  272. NaN:NaN Okay.
  273. NaN:NaN It's not bad.
  274. NaN:NaN Again, I haven't...
  275. NaN:NaN This, I give a very, very, very light thing.
  276. NaN:NaN This would have a few iterations for sure.
  277. NaN:NaN And it's a little light.
  278. NaN:NaN Quite okay.
  279. NaN:NaN We're going to have some iterations on it.
  280. NaN:NaN Decent attempt at a little thing.
  281. NaN:NaN Cool.
  282. NaN:NaN I don't love this font.
  283. NaN:NaN But, you know, I'm still working on the...
  284. NaN:NaN On my kind of unified design language.
  285. NaN:NaN But what I also did...
  286. NaN:NaN So this is Max running on ChatGPT.
  287. NaN:NaN So, but I also had Liv, my other agent, who runs on CodeX...
  288. NaN:NaN Sorry, on Cloud Code, do another version.
  289. NaN:NaN So let's see what she's done.
  290. NaN:NaN I'm clicking it through her version.
  291. NaN:NaN So now...
  292. NaN:NaN Oh, no.
  293. NaN:NaN That's the wrong one.
  294. NaN:NaN Repo is live.
  295. NaN:NaN What's the website?
  296. NaN:NaN Let me ask her now.
  297. NaN:NaN So now I'll go back to Slack.
  298. NaN:NaN So she did this, and she put it inside the repo.
  299. NaN:NaN Oh, she was too aggressive.
  300. NaN:NaN This is the other thing.
  301. NaN:NaN So they have different styles.
  302. NaN:NaN So Max deployed it to Cloudflare, but not connected to the domain, which...
  303. NaN:NaN I think she might have done it too.
  304. NaN:NaN Okay.
  305. NaN:NaN Yeah.
  306. NaN:NaN Pushed.
  307. NaN:NaN Oh, got it.
  308. NaN:NaN Okay.
  309. NaN:NaN So they're working on the same thing.
  310. NaN:NaN I actually wanted a different design.
  311. NaN:NaN My bad.
  312. NaN:NaN So right now, they actually were working on the same exact thing.
  313. NaN:NaN I kind of wanted just them to do a draft design thread first.
  314. NaN:NaN Oh, and I usually type, but I'm...
  315. NaN:NaN Or speak.
  316. NaN:NaN If you can...
  317. NaN:NaN If you can take a pass and just put it in our artifacts.
  318. NaN:NaN Okay.
  319. NaN:NaN So anyways, that's that.
  320. NaN:NaN And the framework here is I've got a series of things of work.
  321. NaN:NaN These are products I'm building all in service of humans and humanity.
  322. NaN:NaN Some of these I'll come back to.
  323. NaN:NaN And then I've got a series of life things.
  324. NaN:NaN So my personal website, some art projects, some journaling, weekly update.
  325. NaN:NaN This weekly update's amazing.
  326. NaN:NaN So now through the system, every week, this is some historical things.
  327. NaN:NaN So every week, I have a simple week number.
  328. NaN:NaN Obviously, it's on me.
  329. NaN:NaN Each one of those weeks has the weekly notes, which is an internal Slack.
  330. NaN:NaN It's a Slack canvas that then at the start of the week is pre-populated by Markdown file
  331. NaN:NaN and at the end goes back into Markdown.
  332. NaN:NaN So I have that in here, which is a nice interface.
  333. NaN:NaN Or you can see I get a little preview.
  334. NaN:NaN This is what I'm working on.
  335. NaN:NaN I'm working on some public tentpoles, including some music, some artsy stuff,
  336. NaN:NaN some testing different cameras, getting one of the products.
  337. NaN:NaN So that's the goal.
  338. NaN:NaN And I generated this entire weekly deeper list with a 30-minute exploration,
  339. NaN:NaN audio exploration on my iPhone while drinking a coffee on a Monday morning,
  340. NaN:NaN which I know is becoming more and more common.
  341. NaN:NaN But the point is now I have somewhere to go to put it.
  342. NaN:NaN It's not like in some app.
  343. NaN:NaN And more and more, you know, I used to run 20, 30 apps at a given time.
  344. NaN:NaN Now everything is pretty much running through Slack.
  345. NaN:NaN So that's the high level.
  346. NaN:NaN I'm trying to think what other – oh, yes.
  347. NaN:NaN So the other thing that's cool.
  348. NaN:NaN Okay, so this is now – I'll move that.
  349. NaN:NaN The interface through Slack again.
  350. NaN:NaN Different channels.
  351. NaN:NaN Each thread is one.
  352. NaN:NaN So you can see I'm also working on – this is another example.
  353. NaN:NaN So I'm working on updating my personal website.
  354. NaN:NaN And in here, right, we have our thread.
  355. NaN:NaN And I can see the status.
  356. NaN:NaN This one's still running.
  357. NaN:NaN This one's done.
  358. NaN:NaN So there's – my first phase one was let's do some iteration on the actual, like, hierarchy.
  359. NaN:NaN So I had them do this.
  360. NaN:NaN And this is now – let me switch back to Safari.
  361. NaN:NaN So now this is an artifact that we can do.
  362. NaN:NaN And we've done 22 iterations of this particular version, which has, like, a stream and different concepts for the personal site, which is pretty cool.
  363. NaN:NaN And this is all part of this – what I call kind of the OS.arial – in this case, my domain.
  364. NaN:NaN But it's designed to work on any domain.
  365. NaN:NaN So OS is all the internal stuff.
  366. NaN:NaN There's the security page, which essentially – so all this – because it's all living on the Mac Mini, I want to understand what's the traffic in and out, what are the processes.
  367. NaN:NaN There's a lot of automation happening and a lot of permission that the agents have.
  368. NaN:NaN So I need to understand what that looks like.
  369. NaN:NaN I've got stats, which is looking at not just my summary and tokens, but also across all the Slack activity, the number of words.
  370. NaN:NaN You can see it's like this is ramped up in the last week that it's finally landed.
  371. NaN:NaN And I can see the number of threads by status by channel.
  372. NaN:NaN So, again, keep a quick pause.
  373. NaN:NaN We've got four in process, four scheduled.
  374. NaN:NaN That's the other status I forgot to mention earlier is that you can have a scheduled, which means the thread is not closed.
  375. NaN:NaN It's got some automated cron to basically reawaken and do something.
  376. NaN:NaN That might be something like we want to wait another month to do some – to see how this open source software develops.
  377. NaN:NaN It might be, you know, this is blocked by something else, but, you know, I know it's going to be a while.
  378. NaN:NaN Or just let's just take a look in a few months.
  379. NaN:NaN Questions are those that are on me to clarify.
  380. NaN:NaN This state we ended up killing because it was a recommend approval state, but the agents kept confusing approve and quest clarity questions.
  381. NaN:NaN They kept being overly aggressive, like, just approve this.
  382. NaN:NaN And I'm like, there's a million questions still.
  383. NaN:NaN So now they recommend approval inside the clarify question.
  384. NaN:NaN Like, here are some questions that I recommend approval.
  385. NaN:NaN And then I can be like, either let me answer it or just approve it.
  386. NaN:NaN And then act.
  387. NaN:NaN So this is something I actually have to do increasingly.
  388. NaN:NaN So this is the interesting part.
  389. NaN:NaN Like, what do humans actually do?
  390. NaN:NaN What do you do anymore?
  391. NaN:NaN And, I mean, the things that are on me to act are, like, you know, by domain.
  392. NaN:NaN And even that is probably automated soon.
  393. NaN:NaN Or, like, a lot of key management and security management, which I'm going to come back to on, like, the personal stuff.
  394. NaN:NaN And then blocked is also going away because it was too – so blocked is either, like, I have to physically do something or, like, physical or digital.
  395. NaN:NaN But I must do something.
  396. NaN:NaN Questions I have to clarify something.
  397. NaN:NaN Scheduled, in progress, or done.
  398. NaN:NaN Again, these two are – we're sunsetting.
  399. NaN:NaN And then I can track, like, all the sessions.
  400. NaN:NaN So in a given – I mean, the scale here is – this is 30, right?
  401. NaN:NaN So, like, July 27th, I, like – this is the number created by day and then the status, right?
  402. NaN:NaN So they – over time, they should get more and more green.
  403. NaN:NaN But, like, any given day, I'm spinning up, you know, 15 – or managing multiple because some of these are multi-day threads.
  404. NaN:NaN But I can spin up 30 threads and not, you know, miss a beat and work on a bunch of different stuff in parallel.
  405. NaN:NaN So that's some of the operating system.
  406. NaN:NaN And then the other thing that we can do in here is – that's the stats, security, just some design style.
  407. NaN:NaN Then this links to some other stuff.
  408. NaN:NaN But the other thing that – so in the previous Slack, I said, hey, build this example wireframe.
  409. NaN:NaN And where that lives is here we've got these artifacts.
  410. NaN:NaN And each artifact that is created basically gets a permanent or, you know, semi-permanent record.
  411. NaN:NaN So I can see the full exploration.
  412. NaN:NaN And I built this because whenever I would do this before, it was just always, where did this thing go?
  413. NaN:NaN You know, some – you know, Claude is showing me a preview in HTML.
  414. NaN:NaN It lives in the session, super buried.
  415. NaN:NaN I'm like, where is it?
  416. NaN:NaN And I have kind of, like, lost – and, like, it's just a lot of management.
  417. NaN:NaN Whereas now, I can just spin up artifact after artifact.
  418. NaN:NaN I can go back and say, oh, I like this one that was, like, X versions ago.
  419. NaN:NaN I can reference it.
  420. NaN:NaN Each one of these are their own thing, right?
  421. NaN:NaN So I can look at, okay, here's, you know, some early things.
  422. NaN:NaN I can give feedback on the style.
  423. NaN:NaN There's a whole header, right?
  424. NaN:NaN And this lives at os.arields.com, which is private.
  425. NaN:NaN But if I publish it – so this os.arields.com runs on my Mac Mini.
  426. NaN:NaN If I publish it, it'll push it to my www.arields.com, which is a GitHub repo, which will then publish it.
  427. NaN:NaN And in one click, make this instantly publicly shareable, which is nice.
  428. NaN:NaN And I'm doing something similar for video.
  429. NaN:NaN I'm also working on a provenance-focused audit log.
  430. NaN:NaN So, like, all the videos that I create, which are human, are going to be verified to be human.
  431. NaN:NaN And this relates to this security model I'm working on, which is, you know, security is essentially identity and integrity.
  432. NaN:NaN Are you who you say you are?
  433. NaN:NaN And are you – can we actually do – do you have the authority to do what you're asking for, right?
  434. NaN:NaN And so this identity, integrity – or sorry, it's do you have access to do the things you have?
  435. NaN:NaN And then are you authorized to do, right?
  436. NaN:NaN Access, authorization is another – I'm finalizing the language.
  437. NaN:NaN But essentially, I want to prove both, right?
  438. NaN:NaN So CloudFlares and arields.com is one way to verify authenticity.
  439. NaN:NaN But another way is a video that, you know, is verified.
  440. NaN:NaN And people are getting better at the cryptographic verification that's real, not AI video.
  441. NaN:NaN So I don't want to cover anything else.
  442. NaN:NaN Yes.
  443. NaN:NaN Okay, cool.
  444. NaN:NaN So now let me switch back to – okay, I'm going to just – let me go back to Slack for a sec and then go through – hold on.
  445. NaN:NaN Perfect timing.
  446. NaN:NaN Okay, 23.
  447. NaN:NaN So here, again, I mentioned before the duality.
  448. NaN:NaN So life is a blue ocean and that's live.
  449. NaN:NaN She's blue.
  450. NaN:NaN And then work is fire and orange and, you know, we make fire to work and that's max.
  451. NaN:NaN And I just kind of like – I love the duality of life and various dualities, right?
  452. NaN:NaN Yin and yang, light and dark.
  453. NaN:NaN And so – and then it also helped me figure out – and they each run on default on different models, although they can run on any models.
  454. NaN:NaN But it helped me figure out, okay, who is this for?
  455. NaN:NaN What are the contexts they have?
  456. NaN:NaN What are the memories?
  457. NaN:NaN How do they evolve?
  458. NaN:NaN And I have kind of a go-to point person.
  459. NaN:NaN And also figuring out like how many – I only have two agents right now because, you know, they can wear a lot of hats through skills.
  460. NaN:NaN But I found that just the right level of interface that I wanted is I know who to go to with each thing and then they can then coordinate a bunch of activities with subtasks and on their own based on what we're trying to accomplish.
  461. NaN:NaN And then integration, which I didn't get into, but, you know, through OpenClaw and Slack, it's pretty trivial to get any integration going.
  462. NaN:NaN Cool.
  463. NaN:NaN So now I don't yet have a good – I don't yet have a great visual when I am working on this.
  464. NaN:NaN But what I will do is I'll kind of walk through the initial website.
  465. NaN:NaN So I don't know.
  466. NaN:NaN Okay.
  467. NaN:NaN So now – okay.
  468. NaN:NaN So this is the tech architecture.
  469. NaN:NaN So I imagine it's human first on the MacBook.
  470. NaN:NaN So everything I do is on running on the MacBook as an interface to me.
  471. NaN:NaN But all the work is happening on the Mac Mini, which is at home right now, but in general it can be anywhere.
  472. NaN:NaN Access via Tailscale, so it's secure.
  473. NaN:NaN And you saw that domain.
  474. NaN:NaN It's the ArialDS domain on Cloudflare.
  475. NaN:NaN That also enables me to make just easier paths and host my own sites, not just through GitHub.
  476. NaN:NaN And then the structure is basically the agents are – live and match are defined and their memory is outside of any individual, you know, thing, right?
  477. NaN:NaN It's not a Hermes agent.
  478. NaN:NaN It's an agent that can live anywhere.
  479. NaN:NaN The runtime is OpenClaw, which I have been very, very pleased with.
  480. NaN:NaN And then it can coordinate, as you saw with the emojis on a given thread, right?
  481. NaN:NaN Because, again, every thread gets its own status, agent, harness, model.
  482. NaN:NaN And then – so that's the task execution.
  483. NaN:NaN And then there's unified memory.
  484. NaN:NaN So at the end of every session, there's a summary output inline, a markdown file.
  485. NaN:NaN We compound any learnings.
  486. NaN:NaN And then that goes into our unified memory.
  487. NaN:NaN I use Doppler for key management.
  488. NaN:NaN Obviously, GitHub for code, although I'm excited to test out Buzz and their integrated Slack slash GitHub, which I'm absolutely going to try.
  489. NaN:NaN And maybe I'll – it's the same mental model.
  490. NaN:NaN Whether it's Slack or Buzz, it's less critical.
  491. NaN:NaN And then, you know, the cost is, you know, I do pay for Slack because I want the history.
  492. NaN:NaN If not, I could theoretically export it.
  493. NaN:NaN Obviously, the AI that you pay for.
  494. NaN:NaN But most of the other stuff is, you know, there's a ton of open source that I'm using.
  495. NaN:NaN So there's very few things that are, you know, that cost anything here.
  496. NaN:NaN And this is now my personal management.
  497. NaN:NaN But for the work stuff, obviously, this informs a lot of what we're building.
  498. NaN:NaN The architecture is obviously very different because it's not going to be on a Mac Mini.
  499. NaN:NaN But just the ability to understand end-to-end what's happening.
  500. NaN:NaN And that's kind of what I'll end on.
  501. NaN:NaN So what I'll end on is just my – the thoughts, right?
  502. NaN:NaN I mean, this has been firehosing AI, obviously, for the last months, for less – longer than that.
  503. NaN:NaN But I feel like there's been an inflection a few months ago where the pieces started coming in place.
  504. NaN:NaN The agents had enough autonomy.
  505. NaN:NaN They had enough context.
  506. NaN:NaN The mental model started sinking in.
  507. NaN:NaN And it kind of started looking very close to how I think about using technology and managing companies as a CEO.
  508. NaN:NaN So it was super exciting because now it's not about, you know, tweaking prompt engineering, which is where we were a year ago.
  509. NaN:NaN Instead, it's now about orchestrating activity.
  510. NaN:NaN And I believe humans are still going to be an important part of that orchestration layer, right, from a taste standpoint, from a priority standpoint, from whether it's artistic taste or product taste or market taste.
  511. NaN:NaN And we'll probably have an AI agent-to-agent economy that might scale larger than the human economy.
  512. NaN:NaN But the human-to-human economy is there, right?
  513. NaN:NaN And one analogy, humans care about humans.
  514. NaN:NaN And that's always going to be the case.
  515. NaN:NaN No matter how good the technology is, humans care about other humans, cheering for other humans, and they care about being a better human, right?
  516. NaN:NaN And that's why we watch people run 26 miles slowly or whether they could do that in a car, right, and go way faster.
  517. NaN:NaN And we cheer on people that break two hours, even though that's trivial on a bike, let alone a car.
  518. NaN:NaN Same thing.
  519. NaN:NaN Like, their algorithms will beat any human in chess.
  520. NaN:NaN But we care about Magnus Carlsen.
  521. NaN:NaN And we cheer him on.
  522. NaN:NaN And because it's about the human struggle and endeavor.
  523. NaN:NaN And that, I believe, will always be there.
  524. NaN:NaN Whether we have agents doing a lot of the work, which I think is amazing, or not.
  525. NaN:NaN So the agents are here to stay.
  526. NaN:NaN I think the AI is not going to replace us.
  527. NaN:NaN I think it's going to, I hope it doesn't.
  528. NaN:NaN And that's the team I'm on, right?
  529. NaN:NaN How do we make sure, like, how do we be more human in the age of AI?
  530. NaN:NaN And this has certainly enabled me to be more productive, build more of these side projects, build tools for other humans.
  531. NaN:NaN This is what I'm working, the primary theme of the stuff I'm working on now.
  532. NaN:NaN And it's a lot of fun.
  533. NaN:NaN So this is a humanware OS.
  534. NaN:NaN Again, it is open source.
  535. NaN:NaN The site will be up very shortly, as we saw.
  536. NaN:NaN And I'll keep describing it.
  537. NaN:NaN All right.

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