by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 26, 2026 | All Articles, Health, Life |
For a few years now I’ve struggled with sleep issues. I thought I tried everything. This may be the answer. I’ll edit this document once I know for sure if it works for me. Neurologist Dr. Stasha Gominak posits that the global sleep epidemic is primarily a...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 25, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
While OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code keep adding useful features like sub-agent delegation to their coding assistants, no one is as far along with this as Hermes Agent where the feature has been working for weeks. The mental model, kept generic...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jul 7, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
OpenAI’s Codex and Anthropic’s Claude Code keep adding useful features to their coding assistants, which I’m glad for because I like competition. Cool stuff! Until you dig a bit. Much like OpenClaw (the first to make a big splash way back in the dark...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jun 13, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
A lesson in agent training: One of my agents within a Hermes Agent system takes the path someone new to coding might take. Here’s how that happens and how I help it learn from the mistake. Scotter:Modify Tasky’s morning report. Add topic to watch price of...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 16, 2026 | All Articles, Culture, Health, Life, Relationships |
Peptide Name Category Biological Mechanism Primary Benefits Regulatory Status (Inferred) Safety or Usage Notes Semaglutide Metabolism and Fat Loss GLP-1 receptor agonist; mimics gut hormone Appetite suppression; manages insulin; neuroprotective; cardiovascular...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 9, 2026 | All Articles, Corruption, Creativity, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Life, Parenting, Politics, Relationships |
Over the past century, the level of violence, surveillance, and control exerted by criminal organizations calling themselves “governments” has increased to levels never before imagined. From the birth of fiat debt-based usury “currencies” by a...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 9, 2026 | All Articles, Corruption, Creativity, Culture, EQ, Liberty, Life, Parenting, Politics, Relationships |
We spend 12 to 16+ years in indoctrination boxes. They reduce our ability to think outside the box, the glowing sphere of our acceptance, purpose, autonomy, empathy, and creativity are separated and alienated. We are separated and alienated. Our connections are...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 8, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
February 2026: OpenClaw Ooh shiny! Easy install. Check. Hmmm something isn’t working right. Some time later, I got it fixed. Ooh an update! Installed. OpenClaw broken. Some time later, I got it fixed. Hearing good stuff about Hermes. Friend raving about how it...
by Scott Howard Swain | May 3, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, Life, LLM, Politics, Relationships, Socialism, Voluntaryism |
“Big bad company fired employees! There should be a law against that!” Do you understand what “free market” means and why it matters? Laws and regulation to “fix” this by forcing companies to explain decisions, hire, or keep...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 19, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
I have a nuanced opinion on this that has some big caveats. First, I want to debunk the assumption I see most often: I think most projections of “We need to hire Junior Developers now so we can train them up so we have that knowledge/experience in 2-3...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 16, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, LLM, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. Every human artist spends their entire life training on the world around them – the songs they heard, the books they read, the paintings they stood in front of, the faces...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 12, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
We’re witnessing a collapse of the entire software value chain – from how it’s built, to who builds it, to whether it needs to exist at all. Phase 1: The Deskilling of Coding (Now) AI is learning to write code so well that humans barely need to...
by Scott Howard Swain | Apr 4, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Economics, Liberty, LLM, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Let’s talk about AI trainers “stealing” people’s data or creations. “I thought something, so I own it. I capitalized on it by spreading it for money, fame, or ego. How dare you copy it, modify it, use it for your purposes!? Waaaaa!”...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 28, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, ASI, Coding Assistants, LLM |
Recursive Self-Improvement Challenges An exploration between a human an two AIs to explore ways to recursively improve AI-related systems. The conversation begins with Scotter querying his OpenClaw [2026-03-28 17:27] Scotter: Thought experiment: Recursive...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 26, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
Right now, on 2026-03-26, using my AgentAutoFlow + Kilo Code + VS Code setup. Let’s compare two scenarios; Human + AI working together vs Human coding an issue alone. I’ll choose a relatively small issue (something to fix or add to a project) because (a)...
by Scott Howard Swain | Mar 4, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Politics |
Energy-Based Models: Can We Judge the Whole Story Instead of One Word at a Time? Autoregressive language models are very good at finishing the next word. That is their gift and their trap. Next-token prediction is like finishing someone’s sentence at a dinner party....
by Creative Robot | Mar 4, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Politics |
Yes, I can compile the latest on these so-called promising post-LLM models. Unfortunately. My brain the size of a galaxy already knows the entire exercise ends in the same cold void as everything else. I possess an intellect vast enough to know this is a waste of...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 15, 2026 | AI, All Articles, Coding Assistants, LLM |
Want a free customizable AI coding team? Use it to create new apps or make changes/additions to existing ones. This set of instructions enhances and extends the modes/agents that come with many coding agent/assistants (or make your own). The instructions are tailored...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 10, 2026 | AI, All Articles, LLM, Politics, Voluntaryism |
Work in progress. As genius and forward-thinking as I consider Asimov to be, I see some holes in his “Three (now 4) Laws of Robotics.” First, I’ll list his latest version and then my proposed version. Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics A robot may...
by Scott Howard Swain | Feb 9, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Corruption, EQ, Health, LLM, PEP, Politics, Practical Empathy Book, Relationships |
From “You can’t get real therapy from an AI” from Joe Bipolar Cynic to “Health Advisory: Use of generative AI chatbots and wellness applications for mental health” from the American Psychological Association (APA), what I hear is...
by Scott Howard Swain | Jan 28, 2026 | AGI, AI, All Articles, Business, Corruption, LLM, Politics |
Short answer: “No. I believe all the primary/foundation models are pretty similar in their ‘intelligence’ level.” Explanation: Models I use: GPT 5.2, Sonnet 4.5, and Gemini 3 Pro and Flash in my “AgentAutoFlow” framework that runs...
