https://amylily1011.github.io/tags/infra/ Recent content in Infra on Amy Lily Hugo en-us This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://amylily1011.github.io/misc/openclaw-setup/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://amylily1011.github.io/misc/openclaw-setup/ <h2 id="tldr">TL;DR</h2> <p>Built a personal AI operator using OpenClaw + Telegram + Claude. Got stuck optimizing too early (local models, networking). Reset everything. Used OpenClaw onboarding + Anthropic API. Connected Telegram. System worked instantly.</p> <blockquote> <p>Biggest lesson: Getting something working &gt; getting everything perfect.</p> </blockquote> <hr> <h2 id="introduction">Introduction</h2> <p>Over the past few days, I set out to build something simple:</p> <blockquote> <p>a personal AI operator I could interact with through Telegram.</p> </blockquote> <p>What I ended up building was not just a chatbot, but a small system:</p>