Building Dior - My AI Chief of Staff

I just finished setting up Dior, my AI-powered second brain running on OpenClaw. It lives on my Mac Mini and helps me stay on track with my goals. What Dior does Tracks my expenses and warns me when I get close to my $300/month food budget Sends me 5 new French words every morning to help me learn for FCIP permanent residency Tracks my YouTube progress toward 100 videos Manages my GitHub and commits code automatically Publishes to this blog whenever I tell it to How it works The setup runs 24/7 on my Mac Mini in Kelowna. I can message Dior via Telegram from anywhere and it handles everything — from logging expenses to pushing code to GitHub. ...

May 11, 2026 · 1 min · Allen Ghanghas

Why I Build AI Agents

Most AI tools are about thinking faster. You describe a problem, get a response, revise, repeat. The loop is still you doing the work — just with a smarter clipboard. Agents are different. An agent can receive a goal, figure out what needs to happen, take actions, check results, and adjust. The loop runs without you in it. That shift is smaller than it sounds in demos and larger than it sounds in practice. ...

May 1, 2026 · 2 min · Allen Ghanghas