Day 14: April 14 (Tuesday) — That time Brooks broke, and then we thought we fixed him.
Brooks sent me a Telegram workout plan that hallucinated a no-knee-pain history that never happened AND prescribed hands-and-knees movements like bird-dog and knee-down planks to someone with six knee surgeries.
By this time, I’d realized that I just needed to tell Claude the problem and let him fix it. Rules were tightened and hardened constraints added to his soul along with a Training Philosophy section locking in the high-rep / low-weight 40 reps then 30 reps two-set pattern with science backing (Schoenfeld + Morton meta-analyses, ACSM guidelines).
Days 15 – 16: April 19 & 20 — Talk to me Brooks!
I tired of having my phone in my hand at the gym, reading the exercise, writing the result. A phone conversation with Brooks where I could wear earbuds and he could tell me my exercise and I would call back my reps. It seemed like a great idea…but the implementation caused a lot of issues.
We started with a Twilio phone number tied to an ElevenLabs STT and TTS API. It worked but it was clear I was not REALLY talking to my OpenClaw Brooks, more of a cosplay Brooks.
We moved to a Twilio to OpenClaw (via a webhook) to OpenAI STT and TTS and Brooks was back, but the system just didn’t hold up. Even after tweaking the settings there was just too much silence to keep a connection live.
I wanted to use AWS Polly & Transcribe, but OpenClaw had locked the SST to OpenAI. So, though it worked, and I was talking to Brooks, I could never quite get the experience I wanted.
Side note: Claude helped me post an issue to OpenClaw to allow Pluggable STT Providers for voice-call Plugin. As of three weeks ago, it is now part of the OpenClaw eco-system:
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/issues/68697
Pros: Brooks was no longer out to hurt me and not cosplaying.
Cons: The phone calls were gimmicky at best.
So, I pushed that project over to the sideline for another day.
Day 17: April 22
I joined a country club. So there’s that… www.SageMeadows.com
Day 18: April 24
While recording a video at the golf course, I wanted to upload it and let an agent dissect my swing into parts and then see if it could evaluate and correct my swing. Lofty goal I know. Even better if the agent could see something in my swing and call me on the course. Well…once I figure out that calling process with Brooks.
I also needed videos to have evidence of my swing/game getting better over time and to post to socials. That’s when the idea came to me.
Write an IOS app that when you stepped onto a golf course, your video camera’s settings would change so you are saving all videos to an Online vault (Dropbox, Google, etc) that was structured by the date and the course.
Claude and I designed the concept and handed it to Maverick to start coding. Every couple of hours a cron would cause Claude to check if there were any code reviews on my repo. And then on a staggered schedule, Maverick would wake up and check if there was a code review to deal with.
Day 19 Never really came…
I became disillusioned with OpenClaw because of several factors. Memory, it’s lack of memory, and the inability to remember shit.
I stepped away from my OpenClaw setup and started to rethink what I was doing and how I wanted to do it. I love how PaperClip is setup but it is too restrictive, I love the concept of OpenClaw but it is too f***-ing dumb.
Day 20
May 9, 2026 — Hermes and Claude and Me…o, my
(To be continued)