AI Shoulder Surf V1

markdownlint-disable MD003 MD033 MD046

A while back I thought of having some regular office hours so that I could share my screen with some friends and we could just talk about what we are learning and working on. I think office hours are hard to sell unless you’re some kind of expert or thought leader. I am neither of those things, but I do enjoy showing what I’m working on. So, I proposed a “shoulder surf” session where people could share screens and gab. No video recording was made, in order to remove the stress and the performative aspect of video calls. It also leaves space for asking questions and admitting you have knowledge gaps. Admitting to not having answers is not a problem for me personally, because knowledge gaps are basically all that I have, but I want other people to have a safe space.

I posted something on LinkedIn, texted some former colleagues whom I have been keeping in touch with and we set up a meeting. I thought we’d have a handful of folks, but we had a dozen and I learned a lot. This was the first session of at least two. (I’m not making big plans).

What follows is a combination of a factual AI summary of the call and some of my comments. So, I did have an assist, but it’s also not slop. The target audience of this post is the folks who were on the call, but maybe some others will find the digest version useful.

markdownlint-disable-line

markdownlint-disable-line "Peaking over @brad_frost's shoulder at An Event Apart " by Jeremy Keith is licensed under CC BY 2.0.# Mateu: OpenClaw and AI-Generated Video

Mateu kicked things off by demonstrating how he used AI to produce OpenClaw: Introduction & Memory Search Overview, a YouTube video explaining OpenClaw — a project he’s been experimenting with. He runs it inside a Linux container on Proxmox and used Manus to generate the video.

On the cost side, Mateu has been happy with the Codex model at $20/month and finds it genuinely useful for day-to-day work.# Ingy: Headless Claude in a Ma…