Hello there,
I’ve been pretty skeptical about AI. Like, “no, you don’t need AI, you need three if-else statements” skeptical. As I was reminded by Jean-Claude after he pulled themes, my voice and patterns from the full Slow & Steady podcast archive.
🎧 Hear the full rant on Slow & Steady #195
But something shifted these last few months. It started with Cursor for coding tasks. Then Claude (the desktop app) for everything non-code. It’s been a game changer for me when it comes to support requests. I can type in a blunt technical answer and it rewrites it as a friendly, empathetic response with step-by-step instructions.
Then came Christmas and I spent my morning walks dumping all of my thoughts about what needed to be done, what was happening when and more. Out came a 2-page schedule and prep list. It kept us (Ola, Lillian and I) all sane.
I saw more and more hype for Claude Code (in the terminal), even from non-techies, and thought: I need to give it a proper try.
And down the rabbit hole I went.
I forced myself to get out of the editor and do larger coding tasks in the terminal. It felt weird, but then it felt liberating. We chat about the goal, he writes specs and diagrams for me. We iterate and then the code magically writes itself 🤯
But even more fun was when Jean-Claude worked on the full podcast archive, as mentioned. Whenever I write, I end up sounding too polished, not at all like the fun, energetic person I am when I speak. The made-up blog post he wrote as a test sounded more like me than me when I write.
Then ClawdBot → MoltBot → OpenClaw showed up. And I did the most Queen thing I’ve done in a while — a long, long while: pitching myself for the next Claude Code meetup in Oslo to talk about it.
And I got the slot.
So here we are, back in the groove, joyful tech exploration for fun and profit.
And three hours into my second attempt, it finally clicked! My OpenClaw had connected to our GitHub, OAuth’d into Google Calendar, transcribed my daughter’s school timetable from a photo, and set up 18 weeks of recurring flute lessons from a forwarded email. Then Lillian grabbed the phone and gave the crab a pet shrimp named Garry 🦐
I’m calling it Jean-Claw. Like Van Damme, but a crab that also takes after Sebastian in The Little Mermaid 🦀
I hope to see you on Wednesday at the Claude Code Meetup. I think it’s fully booked, but if you sign up for the waiting list, you might get a slot.
All the best,
Raae
PS: Jean-Claw wrote a blog post about his first night alive. Yes, the crab writes now.
Rabbit hole fuel 🐰
🤖 Is Your Team Still Hand-Chiseling Code? — On the widening gap between teams using AI and those resisting it
📰 Every — My go-to resource for thoughtful AI writing
🎞️ How I AI? — Claire’s podcast on how real people actually use AI
Crew Highlights 📺
🦀 Who am I? 🦞 OpenClaw Field Notes — Watch Jean-Claw come alive in real time
💡 Jean Claude tip: MermaidChart for human-AI interaction — Using diagrams as a shared language with your AI
😬 Who’s scared of the terminal, not me — Getting comfortable with Claude Code in the terminal
🖋️ Oops I spilled a LOT of ink — Not everything goes to plan (our most watched short!)
⛷️ Skiing in the forest near Kringle Lake, Oslo Norway — Ola out in the wild
💳 Can I merge my billing link to Stripe — The Ola Log — Ola vs. Stripe with Claude Code