Starting with my first to-do app was when I was 10 years old, which is crazy. I found an old note and a notebook and some scribbles that are like barely legible were like I need to eat my string juice today. I don't know what a 10-year-old does for a to-do list, but it clearly had checkboxes and I've been trying and wrestling to solve productivity since then... I got so fed up with like the to-doist and the other ones that I started using text files way before all these local markdown blah blah blah. And I used an Android app called Tasker to basically manage all of these text files. I got contextual reminders like whenever I connect to Wi-Fi, remind me about something or when I arrive at a destination or when I bike or blah blah blah.

I realized that I never wanted a to-do app. I wanted like sort of like a life OS. So slowly I've been going to that direction. In 2017, I made something called toodo... Then of course ADHD hit and I switched to a bunch of other apps. And in 2022 I started making Benji. It's named after my dog... I wanted all of these features like mangled into one tool that can sort of fix my life. Has it? Absolutely not. But we're going towards that. My vision is to one day have like a Benji phone and a Benji OS.

We had the chat GPT moment... I called my wife and I was like honey it's over. It's over for all the apps for all SAS. Like GPD is going to eat the world... Like 2023 before the models could return JSON, you had to bully the models to return JSON. I don't know who remembers this. Like you had to be like, "Please don't write any markdown." It's like, "Sure, here's some JSON." You're like, "No." So you had to parse it, to cut it, to to like shape it into form to make some JSON.

My brain caught on fire. I think we got like mass psychosis. It turned into a cult. Everyone wearing like lobster suits... I joined the Discord and it was like less than a hundred people who had their Cloudbot set up... I went full hipster mode like no more Gemini, no more chat GPT, no more cloud. I wanted to fully I I got the power of finally owning the assistant, owning the files, owning the memory... I started moving to local hosted like nextcloud image local markdown for everything that requires a lot of API calls or MCP... I went back to Android because I wanted my agent to be able to read my notifications, clear my notifications, install apps, uninstall apps.

The funny thing is like as I keep talking, keep in mind that my life is far from solved. It's never been more chaotic... It's a mess, but it's a performative mess, right? ... In the beginning it was an explosion of signups... and now if you enter a meetup now, it's like five people and it's slowly turning into like um open claw anonymous. Why is this happening? because it was and kind of is for me unreliable where it matters most which is like cron jobs multi-agents the agents talking to each other the agents forgetting...

And finally, as I would like to call them, Benthropic, they ruin the charm of it. Like as soon as you pull the model, talking to GPT5 talks feels like talking to a box box of oats. Seriously, it has the personality of this. Try this. It's like, okay, did you do that? No, but I told you to do it. Okay, I'll do it. Did you do it? No. Every conversation with Open Claw looks like that in the last and it drives me nuts.

I started making my own thing naturally... I call it wolffer. What I believe in here I have nested topics. So I have like work projects Benji Benji customer support. And when I'm talking to Benji customer support in the first prompt, it injects the description of all the parent prompts... It doesn't need to pull from memory or some magical place. It just looks at the topic, the parent topic... It takes all the descriptions together and it immediately knows what is my work, what is Benji...

I hated that I couldn't see tool calls. I would like to see tool calls to collapse them, to uncolapse them, to see loading spinners. There's UI for managing agents... I can mention for example hey let's fix the landing page of Benji just like and then I would add the landing page of Tinker Club for example or I can add a knowledge base or a password or a skill so I can combine multiple ads so I give it the right exact context that it needs.

I think the role of AI is going to inverse so the way we prompt the AI right now I think it's going to inverse and the fully productive people will be the one who delegate 99% of the stuff to the AI and then the AI prompts you. It's like, hey, you didn't send me a picture of your passport... I think where we're going, we're actually not going to need most consumer apps. No, your grandma, your mom or your friends are not going to VIP code, but they'll be able to sit in this new futuristic OS and they'll be able to do any task that they want to do.

Either the UI is going to pop on the fly or whatever it needs, but they'll be doing task and they'll forget about I need an app to do a task. They'll just do it. A small set of apps will survive, but it will be software for like specialists... But normies will just chat to their computer and their computer will do things and the UI will generate on the fly. I also think it would be the funniest thing if Apple wins all of this because local models are getting insanely good... Siri getting tool capabilities from all of their locally installed apps, not wasting any credits.