SMB_ChrisH

Army veteran → Wall Street → HVAC business owner. Father of 3 girls. UNC MBA. Exploring AI daily. Here to share my journey and help others.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

Fantastic approach to providing your AI agents with instructions is to use for @Scribehow to document the process and then share the markdown with your AI agent. Very efficient and allows you to reference instruction files for each discrete process. @Qwen 3.6 locally on @openclaw and I am automating an enormous amount of work for my business.

[Clemente @clementetv_]

CEOs when their company's stock is down 99%

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@blueprintsmb22 Yep... As a small business owner and Arsenal fan, I have had full Arteta vibes!

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

AI videos are getting good, fast! Implications are scary from impacts to traditional performance arts to disinformation. Along the way, we will also get a lot of LOLs.

[Don Keith @RealDonKeith]

Actors are so cooked.

This is the most amazing AI I’ve seen yet and it’s even getting the emotions fairly accurate.

Great work from Taylor Chien. I might even go watch this movie.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

I have mostly been doing my heavy coding in codex and claude code directly. I am using openclaw for daily cron jobs, web reserach tasks, data analysis, and other virtual assistant type work.

For instance, I had openclaw using my workstation to take my 2,600 appointments and locations of my technicians homes and simulate total drive time for the year from our current office and every property we are looking at to see potential time optimization. There are a couple of towns that could save up 1,000 hours of wheel time per year for my small business.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

Anthropic bans use of my max account on @openclaw. Switch to @GoogleDeepMind 's Gemma4 26B MOE and it is FLYING with quality output.

Will be using the 31B model for reasoning and complex tasks. If it struggles, I will have a given task migrate to a paid model.

My use of anthropic is going to plummet as a result of this move.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@tytyburky Yessir. Works well.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@karpathy This is exactly how I use it running a small business. Ask it to help me think through a decision, then ask it to tell me why I am wrong. When you are personally guaranteeing every dollar and there is no committee to fall back on, stress-testing your own thinking is so important!

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

This is dead on. I went from Wall Street to buying a commercial HVAC company with an SBA loan. Three months in, my biggest client went bankrupt owing me nearly six figures. There was no playbook for that. You either figure it out or you don't. The guys I know who are building SMB businesses have all been punched in the mouth more than once since close. To think you are just going to buy businesses and enjoy excellent multiple arbitrage without real struggles should be left in the manhattan bars where the ideas are thrown around so freely.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

Completely agree! AI is helping me id targets, improve online presence for AI search, automate repetitive tasks (so my people have time for more impactful work), improve response time, etc.

All of this is freeing up time to focus on the client not create an opp to cut headcount.

[Ostris @ostrisai]

I trained this @ltx_model LTX 2.3 LoRA of George Costanza at home on my 5090 in about a day with AI Toolkit. I generated this 30 second video with @ComfyUI on my 5090 in 6 minutes. Open source is, always has been, and always will be, the future of generative AI. (SOUND ON)

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

On a flight. 3 agents coding. Openclaw searching co-ops for bidding opportunities. Openclaw pulling together legislative and regulatory update brief. Perplexity computer updating site with FAQs to optimize SEO for LLMs and also finding optimal sites to publish recent case study. LFG!

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@therobertbrooks One of the biggest reasons I like open claw is the ability to switch between any model at will, based on the use case tokens available. The state of the artist is changing too fast for my context in history to be anchored to anyone of the labs.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@Will_Schryver @grok So many use cases. I had my openclaw find the bid posting websites for 179 schools, towns and public entities in my service area. Checks them 3x per week now. Took 15 mins of my time.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

Watching Downman play on Saturday was one of the coolest sporting moments of my life. I capped off my evening watching my little brother coach his HS basketball team to back to back state championships!

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@nix_eth were you able to get qwen3.5 to have a decent response time? I am having terrible lag and timeout due to thinking mode. If turned off it responds instantly and isn't great.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

On Friday, I had 11 different AI agents running at once. 5 were doing software development on a new field service management software. 2 were building out a fault detection program. 1 was rebuilding my website to be optimized for SEO and then 3 were web crawling every school, municipal and county website to identify links where they post bids. I now have a web scraper that checks the 176 validated sites 3x per week. Small businesses have an enormous opportunity to level up right now for a few hundred $$$ a month.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

@AlexFinn @sugarjammi Big Mac Syndrome?

[OpenClaw🦞 @openclaw]

We just passed React on GitHub stars. 🦞

Let that sink in. A personal AI assistant built by a lobster-obsessed Austrian and an army of crustacean enthusiasts just outstarred the library that powers half the internet.

We shipped 90+ changes today. They shipped a conference.

[SMB_ChrisH @SMB_ChrisH]

"Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing"

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here is what actually happened to each of them.

Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck.

UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with.

Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning.

Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities.

Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself.

Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications.

Now understand what Iran just accomplished strategically. In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating.

Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next.

And the damage tells the real story. One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything.

Compare this to what Israel did to Tehran this morning. Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself.

One side hit what it aimed at. The other side hit one civilian with debris.

This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again.

They will not let it happen again.

Watch for the joint statement. Watch for airspace coordination between Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Kuwait City. Watch for the coalition that Iran just built against itself with a single salvo.

Iran did not retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran gave every country in the Middle East a reason to retaliate against Iran.