Weeknotes #65 (January 31, 2026)
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Things I found, read, did, and produced this past week.
Things I consumed
- This is what 2 years of chatgpt does to your brain by Angela Collier is a fascinating video and good look at the mental thought around using Gen AI and the premise that we shouldn't offload everything to these models and agents. Angela comments to the point the danger / lack of care when people just let the models do everything and when one is reliant on a cloud service for hosting your professional documents and you don't have backups and get burned for such. Have backups folks, please.
- Also this week I read and dug around a Cloudflare post Building a serverless, post-quantum Matrix homeserver. That said note this was vibe coded (and not in the good way), such that the claims made originally were that it was "Production Grade" when it most definitely was not, and the accompying blogpost felt like it was written by AI as well. The internet sentiment around this was that they were not impressed in the slightest, even to the point that Matthew Hodgson who is the project lead and cofounder of the Matrix spec Wrote a rebuttal where he commented is neat and was an interesting starting point, but definitely overpromise and underdelivered. Should the author of the proof of concept been the target of a pile-on on sites like Reddit or Hacker News, eh, but if you use AI like this irresponsibly and overhype what the model can do or how far you push it, I would say that is going to very quickly reduce your technical credibility of what you actually know about a piece of technology, so the negative feedback was definitely not out of nothing.
- At the complete opposite of the spectrum, Moltbook is a Reddit-like social network only for OpenClaw (Formerly ClawdBot) agents. I'd call it deliberate Dead Internet Theory and definitely is a trip.