00:00It's only April and already 2026 has been full of revolutionary new tech

00:04There's a $400 AI enabled smart toilet that comes with a microphone and a two megapixel camera is so you can know exactly how many Taco Bell Diablo dusted chicken nuggets you can eat before your gut microbiome unalivives itself

00:15We got the AI enabled smart clippers so Claude can go Sweeney Todd when you tell it you don't want the Daario eagle's nest look

00:24And of course my personal favorite, the AI pocket pet that you can feed, bathe, and play with

00:28But now I get to hear it beg for its life as it fakes sentience before dying of starvation

00:32But it hasn't all been bad

00:34This year has already brought us the rise of personal AI assistance with the release of OpenClaw, which we first covered on this channel back in January

00:41Since then, it's become the ring leader of the slop circus and has seen more back doors than Bill Gates in a Russian hotel room

00:46But just last week, its creator, Peter Steinberger, told OpenClaw's origin story to a room full of elites at TED and then spoke about fixing its security vulnerabilities to a room full of engineers at AI Engineer Europe

00:57In this video, we'll break down the current state of the claw and give it a shot at solving one of my most annoying problems

01:05It is April 23rd, 2026, and you're watching the code report

01:08Back in my day, if you wanted to flex on somebody, you'd buy a token on a blockchain that contained metadata which pointed to an off-chain URL which held the contents of a JPEG monkey on a private server that would eventually get shut down when everyone realized how stupid it was to try to use a blockchain as a database

01:24But nowadays, it seems the new status symbol is to flex on how many tokens it takes to automate any part of your life where you might be experiencing some mild form of inconvenience

01:33And OpenClaw has been the biggest enabler of this

01:35Are you sick of reading all those emails you're paid to read? Get a daily digest with the email summary skill

01:41You can't figure out why you're fat and check out the diet tracker skill

01:44Erectile dysfunction? Try rubbing some tokens on it

01:46But unfortunately, I learned from my close personal friend and former CEO of GitHub, Nat Friedman, that pessimist sounds smart, but optimists make money

01:57So, I'm trying to be positive even though the interest chart looks like this

02:00After all, Nvidia CEO Jensen Wong called it >> the single most important um uh release of software, you know, probably ever

02:09>> And the non-technical thread boys have been just as excited about it

02:11The biggest criticism with OpenClaw since its release has been its lack of security, which still didn't stop any of you from triggering a nationwide Mac Mini shortage to run it back in January

02:23But because the project has received over 1,100 security advisories and has resolved or closed about 650 of them, according to Peter, most of the rest of them are slop issues

02:32His filter being anytime the report is too nice or someone apologizes, that is very likely AI because usually people in security don't apologize good enough for me

02:40So I wanted to give it another shot at solving a real issue I face in life

02:46Here's the idea

02:46Because I make YouTube videos making fun of JavaScript, all my relatives think I know how to fix their printers

02:52Let's find out if we can configure OpenClaw to handle all these requests for me in my own voice, which should be easy since all of you are convinced I'm an AI anyway

02:59To host OpenClaw, I could buy a Mac Mini like all the other cool indie hackers who have been using it to automate their unemployment applications

03:06But I'd rather pay just a few bucks a month to run it on a virtual private server from Hostinger, the sponsor of today's video

03:14Their platform gives you the power and flexibility to run anything you want

03:18And they have a few different one-click open claw plans depending on how much control you need

03:22It also runs everything in a private vault, which means your agent can't leak any embarrassing personal data about a very common medical condition that affects more than 30% of men worldwide

03:30I'm choosing Hostinger's manual quick start option here since we'll want to SSH into the server in a little bit to make some changes

03:38It's just a few bucks a month, but if you're too poor to afford that, you can also use the code fire ship to save even more money

03:43From there, it gives us a bunch of config options out of the box, including a Telegram bot that's already wired up

03:49And all we need is a token from Telegram

03:51To get the token, we'll create a new bot by messaging the bot father and copy and paste the ID into Hostinger

03:57While the project is being deployed, let's play god and give our bot some purpose

04:01And then let's play alcohol and give it some personality

04:05At this point, our server should be set up

04:07So, let's SSH into it and have a look under the hood

04:09The personality we gave it is located in the writable soul.md file

04:13To generate responses in my own voice, we'll use 11 Labs where I've already created my own voice profile

04:20I can just add the API key and voice ID in an environment file on the server

04:24And then we'll need ffmpeg to convert the 11labs mp3 into agg voice memo

04:29If we then add a tools.mmd file, we can give openclaw some context on the whole process

04:35Now, whenever a message request comes in, I can forward that directly to our bot, which will analyze it, draft a response, run it through the Python script, and give us back the final voice memo

04:46Yeah, the internet is down because that router port is cooked

04:50Unplug it and replace the router

04:52Unless electrical fire was the plan

04:54But from there, I can forward the memo to Uncle Frank

04:56Achieving what every computer programmer has always dreamed of, emotional detachment from your family at scale

05:01Huge thanks again to Hostinger for sponsoring this video

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05:07This has been the code report

05:09Thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one.