can i talk to an openclaw bot using internet relay chat? if not, then what is the point
my suspicion is that i can *handwaves in the direction of kent overstreet*
you see, i have built my own LLM, using the most ethical method possible: i trained it on the entire corpus of IRC logs in my possession, 2003 to present
no giant water vaporizing data centers needed here, just a GPU, a dream and some cold hard chats

time 2 implant this brain into an openclaw and give it full access to my email

mostly because i don't want to retain any of my email

so i installed it into the openclaw meme thing. and it's not like, doing the stuff it claims it is doing.

like it is hallucinating things like "i updated SOUL.md with xyz"

i seriously do not think this stuff is real now

@ariadne what model did you finetune on? For a 1B model you need something really specialized on tool calling.

@jfkimmes i built an LLM from scratch with transformers kinda loosely following the scripts the qwen people released

the LLM is basically trained on ~30ish GB of mostly furry smut and public Linux IRC logs.

*nods sagely*

@jfkimmes i am, however, using the 35b parameter qwen3.5 reasoning model for the "thinking" portion of this exercise
@ariadne Oh, is that a OpenClaw specific feature where you can specify that reasoning traces are generated by a separate model than the actual response? I'm not really familiar with OpenClaw's internals.
@jfkimmes yes, you can have it use a different model for planning.