My current AI model stack: Plan: Fable 5 w/ medium effort Review: Fable 5 w/ medium effort Implement: Fable 5 w/ medium effort Brainstorm: Fable 5 w/ medium effort Summarize: Fable 5 w/ medium effort Commit & Push: Fable 5 w/ medium effort

Why I'm bullish on agentic micropayments with stablecoins: - Card payments have high fees (~2–3% + ~$0.30), so there's no point in using them for any payment below a dollar. - It allows for paid tool exploration with less risk. With cards, you're giving away a reusable token to a seller, one of which could go rogue and recharge you. With x402, a payment is a one-way process. - It's an alternative to the subscription model, gives more control to creators/builders, and can reduce spam (e.g. $0.002 charge to a crawler) - No need for a human-in-the-loop to establish accounts and api keys, etc. - Fewer silly charge disputes. You can't roll back a stablecoin transaction, and no one will bother trying to for a <$1 payment. $80 card payments are good where you want chargeback rights and universal merchant acceptance, but are the wrong model for a $0.04 API call.

I tried @jack's Buzz. It's like Slack + OpenClaw + Herdr + but with some really unique features that people are sleeping on. The video below shows how it works, and some of my thoughts on the process and platform, e.g.: - Create and interact with agents on top of any harness (claude code, codex, pi, etc.) - Choose which models agents use, including local ones - Agents can delegate work and work in parallel in git worktrees - Agents are first-class citizens and work like humans (creating channels, delegating, access to chat history) - You can share AI compute within a community - It's completely open-source and decentralized Things I like: - Delegating work in chat feels natural: tag an agent, it replies in a thread with status updates as it e.g. compiles, commits, and deploys. - Shared compute: relay owners can share local compute with members, so a community could pool funds for one beefy machine running a local model and everyone uses it. - It's built on Nostr, an open protocol already tied into Bitcoin Lightning so I can imagine communities tipping each other or paying for compute/agent tasks with instant zero-fee micropayments in the future. - It ties together things like OpenClaw, an agent manager, and Slack-style chat into one tool. Things I didn't like: - You can't see what the agent is doing in a terminal. The activity view exists, but if you're used to watching a session run, this UI feels a bit abstracted. A terminal view would be great. - It feels slower than running a session in Claude Code, though no evidence to back that up. For that reason I found myself doing one-off tasks in the terminal instead. Verdict: - I really like it so far and can genuinely imagine working with a team this way. - It doesn't feel ready for big, complex tasks yet. For shallower tasks, it's perfect. - The shared compute + Nostr/Lightning angle is what really separates it from every other agent manager for me, and I think that future is coming.