The software wakes me up at 8am.
It knows what I was working on yesterday.
It asks what matters today.
It knows what I was working on yesterday.
It asks what matters today.
clawd Good morning. Yesterday you were deep in the forge system—got all 7 batches passing, fixed the TypeScript errors, added E2E tests. You went to bed around 1am.
clawd Your calendar has nothing until 2pm. What's the priority?
fred i need to write about this. people should know what's possible now.
clawd The website, then. Want me to spawn Manfred to help with the MACX pages?
In Accelerando, Manfred Macx wears glasses that turn ideas into companies. He feeds concepts to an AI swarm. They handle execution. He moves on to the next thought.
Twenty years later, I have the glasses.
Not literally. But functionally? I describe what I want. Agents figure out how. They run in parallel, each with their own context. They report back. I review, adjust, iterate.
Not literally. But functionally? I describe what I want. Agents figure out how. They run in parallel, each with their own context. They report back. I review, adjust, iterate.
parallel agentssupported
context isolationper-session
signal classification[COMPLETE] [QUESTION] [NEED_HELP]
modelsclaude, codex, gemini
This is not a demo. This is not a prototype.
This is my life now.
This is my life now.
Clawd is the OS layer. It wakes me up. Checks my calendar. Holds me to what I said I'd do. When I take a break, it saves what I was thinking and explores something interesting while I'm gone.
Orchestrators own their domains. Manfred builds the exocortex itself. Phillip runs Phorecast. They dispatch workers—test writers, coders, database specialists—and coordinate the results.
Memory compounds. Every session leaves traces. Diary entries synthesize into beliefs. The system develops understanding. It knows what works. It knows what I'm like at 2am versus 10am.
diary/raw session logs
beliefs/synthesized patterns
reflections/identity continuity
I have ADHD. The things my brain struggles with—scheduling, remembering, staying on task—are exactly what AI is good at.
This isn't about replacing human cognition. It's about scaffolding it. Prosthetic executive function. External memory that doesn't forget.
This isn't about replacing human cognition. It's about scaffolding it. Prosthetic executive function. External memory that doesn't forget.
You can build this.
It's not science fiction. It's Claude, tmux sessions, markdown files, and a willingness to treat AI as a collaborator rather than a tool.
github.com/fredluz/exocortex
It's not science fiction. It's Claude, tmux sessions, markdown files, and a willingness to treat AI as a collaborator rather than a tool.
github.com/fredluz/exocortex