Hung Truong: The Blog!

So I Finally Tried OpenClaw

Clawdbot Moltbot OpenClaw has been blowing up the internet with its zany antics like being mean to open source contributors and giving away a bunch of crypto on Twitter. I've been pretty wary of installing my own instance of it since it's insanely insecure and super stupid, but whatever, YOLO!

Let me give some context first, though! Ever since I was a Computer Science major back in the early 2000s, I've wanted to have an IM bot that I and other people could talk to. I remember using some really simple software that relied on string matching to provide responses, and turned it on for my AOL screenname whenever I was away. This led to some fairly entertaining misunderstandings when my friends thought they were talking to me when they were really talking to my bot. The default fallthrough response was "Sometimes I just don't understand you!" This is all to say that I have some experience in trolling people with bots.

Adding Features to My Blog With Antigravity

I've been using Google Antigravity as my main AI-powered IDE for the past month or two. But something tells me I'll probably switch soon, as Google keeps making it less and less useful. In the meantime, though, I've added a ton of new features to my blog, and I figured I'd write about some of them.

Adding Audio to My Blog With Qwen3-TTS Voice Cloning

I saw a note in my daily AI newsletter about a new TTS model that was out. I spent a better part of the day testing out its capabilities and attempting to do some fine tuning on it.

I've had a goal for a pretty long time to add audio versions that people can use to listen to each of my blog posts. But rather than narrate them myself, I wanted the audio to be computer generated. Not only that, but I wanted it to sound like I was actually doing the narrating. So far, any of the models that I've tried to accomplish this haven't lived up to the high standards of quality that you're used to seeing on my blog. So did Qwen3-TTS finally make the grade?

How Low Can Wegovy?

I recently started taking one of these trendy weight loss pills, and since my blog always gets spam comments from people trying to sell the stuff, I figured I could just make a whole post about it. That way the rest of my blog posts will be safe from spam, right?

It's been about a week since I started taking the wegovy pill which just came out this year. I think I literally got it about a week after it was officially available. I had seen an article about how this new oral form was recently approved, and I did a bit of research on it. Before that, I had been pretty uninterested in taking it, but the more I read about how the drug actually worked, the more interested I was in it.

First Impressions of OpenAI's Sora 2 + App

OpenAI just released a new version of Sora, their video generation model. I spammed reload on a thread on Reddit to get an invite code last night, and quickly hit the rate limit (it was 71 videos)! Here's my first impressions on the new app and model.

The main features of Sora 2 (and the new app) are that you can make short form (like 10 second) videos just by prompting, and you can also insert yourself into videos. This is pretty interesting because previously you'd have to either train a LoRA (like I did) or maybe use a static image of yourself as a starting frame which would inevitably drift away from looking like you.