RigaComm 2026 is over. And I needed a while to process everything.
Finding 1: people are people. We still invent, looking for a new goals and ways of achieving it. And the hype
Once, gods built worlds with words. Then they built a Machine that could write the words for them. Worlds multiplied. Understanding disappeared. And the gods learned: the power was never in writing the words. It was in deciding what they should mean.
My brother called on Friday morning. I’ve been busy and rescheduled the conversation. And since my plans went exceptionally well, I reached him back a couple of hours later.
What I heard
Sending API requests is simple and available out of the box. Until data must not be sent outside.
We either not use LLMs or accept the costs of running LLMs on premise. Sometimes it might be just a few hundreds away.
AI agents can execute faster than we ever could. But speed doesn’t replace judgment. My OpenClaw upgrade turned into an experiment in preparation, supervision, and knowing when to let agents work, and when to step in.