AI

Hands-on guides to LLMs, agents, prompt engineering, and the AI tools Botmonster runs every day for real work, not demos.

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Ditching Claude Opus for GLM 5.1 in OpenClaw at $18/mo

OpenClaw on a budget: Z.ai GLM 5.1 at $18/mo works best, MiniMax highspeed at $40 handles heavier loads. China-hosted models trade privacy for cost.

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OpenClaw vs Hermes and why memory kills agent loyalty

OpenClaw vs Hermes head-to-head from 1,300 r/openclaw migration comments. Why memory wins, where OpenClaw still leads, and when Codex beats both.

Claude Code vs COBOL: the AI migration controversy that crashed IBM's stock 13%

Claude Code accelerates COBOL migration documentation, but cannot replace the multi-year architectural redesign required for mainframe modernization.

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OpenClaw on your $20 Claude sub after Anthropic banned it

Anthropic banned third-party OAuth tools from Claude Pro, but OpenClaw's CLI shell-out is sanctioned. Setup, the Agent SDK credit, and cron fallbacks.

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AI web search backends: who owns, who rents

AI web search backends: ChatGPT runs on Bing, Claude rents Brave, Gemini owns Google. Here's the sourced map of who owns and who rents the index.

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1,000 OpenClaw Deploys Later

A cloud-infra operator watched 1,000 OpenClaw deploys on r/LocalLLaMA. The one reliable use case: daily news digests. Memory is the bottleneck.