Nanobot just dropped a banger for everyone who wants a private AI agent without the bloat! @openclaw is great, but Nanobot is now fully available and 98% smaller while delivering the same core functionality. Most AI agents are heavy, complex, and hard to audit. Nanobot just solved this by staying under small but still acting as a full-featured personal assistant. Here is everything you need to know to build a secure, auditable agent in under 2 minutes: Why Nanobot is a Game Changer Massively Lightweight: 98% smaller than OpenClaw, easy to inspect the entire codebase. Model Agnostic: Use OpenAI, Anthropic, or run 100% local models via Ollama for total privacy. Stateful Memory: It builds a local graph of your history. If you work on a project today, it remembers the context next week. Instant UI: Connects directly to Telegram, WhatsApp, or Discord so you can run terminal commands from your phone. The Power of "Small" by the Numbers 24,000+: GitHub stars and counting. 98%: Reduction in size compared to OpenClaw. 5 Mins: Total setup time from pip install to Telegram bot. 20+: Max tool iterations for complex multi-step tasks. How to Build Your "Research Agent" Install: Run pip install nanobot-ai to get the core engine. Onboard: Use nanobot onboard to auto-create your workspace and "Soul" files. Connect: Add your API keys (or local endpoint) to ~/.nanobot/config.json. Interface: Get a token from BotFather on Telegram to control your machine via chat. Level Up: Add the Brave Search MCP tool to give your agent real-time internet access. The takeaway? AI doesn't need to be a resource hog to be powerful. Nanobot is the perfect "sandbox-first" agent for devs who value privacy and speed. I have shared a link to the full tutorial and GitHub repo in the next post!

This might be controversial, but… AI-generated code could kill your startup. Everyone’s obsessed with how fast AI can ship features. But the faster you move, the less you actually understand your own product. @ArvidKahl breaks it all in the current podcast:

🚨 Sora 2 is here, the GPT-3.5 moment for video. • Physics-aware (missed shots bounce) • Multi-shot control + persistent world • Native audio: dialogue + SFX Olympic routines, paddleboard backflips, triple axels, inside a prompt.