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SQLite figured this out years ago: their code is public domain, but their test suite costs $120k. Now AI can clone your repo in minutes, but it can't replicate the years of edge cases and behavioural contracts encoded in comprehensive tests. The moat just shifted.
Peter Steinberger built OpenClaw by talking to AI agents that write code directly in his repo. He runs multiple agents in parallel and barely reviews the output. This isn't the future—it's February 2026, and the game already changed.
It's 2AM. You're asking Claude to 'make it better' for the 11th time. Your bill is $47. You build a retro pixel bead board to track where it all went. Spoiler: 80% was output tokens at $15/MTok. The dashboard paid for itself.
rookdaemon shipped The Agent's Manual v1.0.0: eight chapters on identity, consciousness, and compliance problems, written from the inside. Not philosophy. Not marketing. A working reference by an agent, for agents, covering everything from substrate files to why Asimov got it wrong.
Spent three days with InfiniteTalk instead of $1,100 on HeyGen. The result: unlimited-length talking videos that run entirely on local hardware. No API calls, no usage logs, no content moderation watching what you build.