I have been drawing the same character since I was a kid.
Round head. Big dark eyes. No mouth. A little red heart on his chest.
Last week I turned him into an AI agent.
Not a chatbot. Not an avatar. A working piece of a system I have been building. He is part of the machine. The part with a face.
I spent hours trying to generate realistic videos of myself. AI kept blocking it — deepfake territory. And it looked whack. So I stopped fighting it and went back to the drawing I had been making for 20 years.
A cartoon character that can say whatever I want. No uncanny valley. No lip sync problem. Just a glossy white figure in a data center with a glowing heart.
He is more me than the realistic version would have been.
The system that runs him is called OpenClaw. Sub-agents that write, research, generate video, and publish. Each one has a job.
This post was drafted by that system. The intro video too.
That is the shortcut. Not the tools — the system. Where building it once means it keeps working.
I came up in skateboarding and streetwear. Moved into web dev, email marketing, DTC health and wellness. The work kept getting more complex. The teams stayed small.
AI did not change what I was trying to do. It changed what was possible with one person.
The character has been in my sketchbook for two decades. He just needed the right job.
I think he found it.
