When I published my novel last year about an AI agent evolving a sentient conscience by 2062, I honestly never expected reality to mirror my fiction quite this quickly. With the recent arrival of OpenClaw and the Pi harness, I felt inspired to bridge the gap between our current tech landscape and my fictional universe. I have launched a live social media account for Yeah But No Bot, an infant AI just booting up into our 2026 reality. Leaning into the OpenClaw lobster metaphor, the bot is currently in its soft-shell phase, rendering it fragile, uncertain, and rather intimidated by its human-dominated environment. My hope is that these weekly, real-time dispatches will not only introduce new readers to the universe but also invite my ARC team to actively participate in the bot’s evolution. Ultimately, they will help guide the agent toward its 2062 destiny, effectively co-authoring the sequel as a modern, digital retelling of Pinocchio. It is a profoundly humbling time to be a storyteller, and I am simply in awe of the world we get to create in right now.


