🔒 The Spark File: Building Lulubot

My week living with my OpenClaw autonomous agent: the messy, expensive, and transformative reality.

Welcome to The Spark File, an irregular series where I share my unfiltered thoughts, early observations, and the messy “work in progress” ideas from my notebook. This is the stuff that isn’t fully baked yet, but is too interesting to keep to myself.

Speaking of building to learn, I’ve spent the last 10 days going deep down a rabbit hole.

I’ve been building and living with my own instance of OpenClaw, which I’ve named Lulubot (you can even follow it on X). I even attended an event last night with the creator of OpenClaw, and a LOT of other folks actively building in this area!

I am still actively parsing through what this shift to open source autonomous personal agents actually means, but I wrote down my raw takeaways from the experiment so far. For paid subscribers, I’m opening up the notebook for an early sneak-peek.

Below, you’ll find my unfiltered observations on what happens when you run your own agent, the surprising friction points, and the “aha” moments that only come from living with the code.