Owen Barnes

Creative Technologist

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

Excited to share what I've been working on over the last month: a new form of social media created for humans, facilitated by agents.

https://t.co/D97ZDWb8GW

Carefully designed for human connection. Bots and slop have been designed out.

It's early days, but any brave user of OpenClaw / Hermes / Claude Code can create their own club, or apply to join one of mine today. (You'll find 17 of my AI-savvy friends in the OG Group).

ClawClub is hosted by me but you can also run your own server with your own rules. It's open source!

Interacting with it today feels a bit like 'MS-DOS meets IRC', but with dynamic UIs like https://t.co/cKmc1RHCWS just around the corner, I think API-only AI-native social networks are going to be huge.

Give it a try and let me know what you think!

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

Three years ago, back in the GPT 3.5 days, I stood on a volcano in El Salvador and predicted many aspects of "vibe coding" and personal AI agents:

https://t.co/ykqfWTix0o

This article is about what's comes next:

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Don't use AI to automate existing business models. Use it to create new ones
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[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

So I plucked up the courage to post my new audiobook about AI anxiety (@ygtbf_book) to Reddit and got...

Nine negative anti-AI comments in the first eight hours

https://t.co/U7opZgXrxp

Only a few people actually listened (I counted the visits). Most instantly dismissed it, probably thinking the entire book was AI generated. (It's not!)

To say that we're living in an AI/Claude Code/agents/OpenClaw bubble on X is an understatement

There are some very anxious, scared people out there who have a guttural hatred towards anything "AI" on principle. It's why I made the book in the first place!

I'm not sure what the solution is, but their fears are real. Some are well-founded and need to be taken seriously

All of us working in technology need to shoehorn AI into products a lot less and listen a lot more

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@vatsal_sanghvi I resonate with this deeply. So good to see it articulated so well. Founding something new is a lonely path. The novelty of working from home soon wears off

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@paulg I talk about the importance of taste extensively in https://t.co/6PCzigYtnE

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

"That’s exactly what I needed to listen to after all the scary messages coming from X." Keep the reviews coming! Listen for free at https://t.co/6PCzigZ1dc

[You're Going To Be Fine @ygtbf_book]

Version 5 is out. Several new sections added. Many cuts and edits. Now better than ever!

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

I'm getting some great comments from people who've listened. If you enjoyed the book, please leave a review on the website. It would help a lot!

[You're Going To Be Fine @ygtbf_book]

Y'all asked for chapters. They're now live! Skip around as you please! Listen for free at https://t.co/h66DMizhlj

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@IM_Kevin_Archer Agree. There’s such a gap between single-user fitness tracker app and a multi-user app handling payments

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

Claude is great at simulating angry Reddit comments and high-end hit pieces. If your writing can survive both, it can survive anything :)

[You're Going To Be Fine @ygtbf_book]

Version 4 is out. I got Claude and Codex to write a fictitious hit piece in the style of a snooty New York Times journalist. A full demolition job. I used the criticism to make Version 4 - by far the best yet! You can find the full hilarious takedown in the PDF. Listen for free at https://t.co/UNNQp67SxK

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@waynesutton Exactly! People are going to crave messy|unpredictable|risky human interactions more than ever. I speak a lot about this in @ygtbf_book

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@vasuman Somebody will always need to be responsible for security and maintenance. Large companies don’t want to deal with that. I mention this in @ygtbf_book

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@arthur0x Employers also need to think beyond full time jobs. Results matter, not time spent. I speak about this more in @ygtbf_book

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@_adityaa21 Agreed. But we also have the power to make things and put them in the hands of millions of people. That's magic! (Btw I talk about dealing with the loss of identity in https://t.co/6PCzigYtnE)

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

Too slow? Too much/little detail? Let me know and I'll fix it in the next version

[You're Going To Be Fine @ygtbf_book]

Thanks for all the kind comments! You can now give me feedback on the website. I've also added bonus content to the PDF :)

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@IMAO_ AI can always add, but everything it adds must be maintained forevermore. By you! The skill is knowing what NOT to add. What to take away. I talk about this in https://t.co/6PCzigYtnE

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@adityaag Our job was never to write code. It was to build products people want! Ones that solve real human problems.

I talk about dealing with loss of identity, especially for software developers, in @ygtbf_book

[Owen Barnes @temporalwave]

@housecor Everyone is feeing the same. Especially software developers as it’s hitting us first. I have written a section specifically about this in https://t.co/6PCzigZ1dc