All this claude code / openclaw bullshit is very overwhelming to keep track of. So much noise on the internet about it. Still, I feel like people don’t discuss the actual specifics of what their workflow is. Getting this right for yourself is incredibly valuable right now. Having an effective workflow is the difference between being able to make progress on 10 things at once vs stalling due to inefficient context switching.

Using this as a scratchpad to muse on what an effective system would look like for me. Then I’ll look into current solutions.

First some criterion. A great personal AI has the following properties:

  • Intelligence
  • Persistent memory and recall
  • Easy to context switch between multiple projects
  • can do multiple things at once asynchronously
  • shares context between everything

What is the hierarchy here?

  • General
    • Projects
      • individual changes Is general life management considered a project? Probably not. What context would you want to keep for all new chats? I like the idea of ephemeral chats that don’t use any context and don’t pollute context for the future (like /btw in claude)

Let’s work through some use cases:

  1. Create and manage a new project
    1. Website. Ex: ā€œWho is this lyric fromā€ Head to Head battle website 1.
    2. App
    3. Extensions
    4. Automation