Hi friends,
It has been a while since I posted on my personal blog in English. I write in Spanish often, and I know many of you can run those posts through a translator, but I also know that most people just scroll past when the language is not theirs.
I want to walk you through a few things: a video that has me thinking, a project tease from Mantequilla-Soft, a conversation about Hive's identity that I think we all should join, and a personal update about my work situation.
The video that has me thinking: OpenClaw
Slidebean published a piece called "yeah... AI just had its iPhone moment" and it stuck with me. The whole episode is an analysis of OpenClaw, an open-source agentic AI tool, and it talks about both the upside and the risks of running something like this on your own machine.
The framing is interesting. They argue that AI may be having its "iPhone moment" right now, which means the technology is finally settling into a shape that regular people can actually use in advanced ways. Not just chatting with a model in a browser tab, but giving the model its own little computer to plan, browse, click, and execute real tasks.
One thing I appreciated is that the video does not hand-wave the risks. Running an agent that can take actions on a machine is not something you want pointed at your personal computer with your bank tabs, your passwords, and your work files. The recommendation is to test it in a clean environment, either a fresh machine or a VPS you can rent and cancel anytime. The video specifically points to Hostinger, where you can spin up an OpenClaw-ready VPS for around 15 USD per month (plus AI credits).
I am tempted. The investment is small, I can shut it down whenever I want, I have been looking for a hands-on excuse to play with agentic AI beyond the chat interface. If I do try it, I will write about what I learn.
A Mantequilla-Soft tease: onboarding at scale
This one is still cooking, so I will not give away the full picture yet.
For a while now, I have been turning over a question in my head: what would it take to onboard people onto Hive at scale, in a way that does not feel like a crypto onboarding at all? Most people who hear about Hive get blocked at the first step. The keys feel intimidating, the wallets feel foreign, and the whole experience asks them to learn a new mental model before they have any reason to care.
We have been waiting ages for lite accounts, and I'm not sure if it's worth waiting even more time for them, so we are working on something that should remove a big chunk of that friction. It will be built on top of ButrAuth, which is a Mantequilla-Soft project, and the idea is to make it possible for apps to bring in groups of new users with a much lower barrier than what exists today. The @Mantequilla-Soft team will be the ones building and maintaining it.
I am still defining the details, and I do not want to over-promise. But I think that this could be a way for new Hive dapps to onboard a lot of users, and these users, in the beginning, will not know or notice that they are using Hive. And of course, the ones that are really interested would have the opportunity to learn and explore the whole ecosystem when they are ready.
A Mantequilla-Soft proposal is coming, and it will be different
We have talked about this in our weekly hangouts, and I want to put it on the radar publicly: the team is preparing a DHF proposal. The angle is going to be different from what is usually proposed, and I think the community will find it interesting. More on that soon.
The Hive rebrand conversation: please join in
I am not going to repeat my comment in this post. What I do want to do is invite you to read the original proposal, read what other community members are saying, and add your own voice. The naming and identity of this place affects all of us, and the conversation only works if more people show up to it.
Personal update: I'm job hunting again
If you have followed my posts in Spanish, you already know this. For the English-speaking part of my audience, here is the short version.
I am back on the job market. My target is Technical Account Manager or Customer Success Engineer roles at US-origin or multinational tech companies with a presence in Mexico City. My English/Spanish bilingual capability is one of my main differentiators, and so is the track record I have built around 3Speak and Mantequilla-Soft.
Here in Mexico, we have a long weekend; kids won't have classes until next Monday. So I will be busy taking care of them, going to the park, going shopping, and doing all kinds of activities so they are entertained and their batteries are drained, and they can sleep well at night.
I hope that everyone has a great rest of the week and a great weekend too.