36 sessions · ~8.5M tokens · Primary build partner · Opus 4.6 + Sonnet
8+ sessions · ~1.2M tokens · Research + planning · GPT-4o
Code generation + automation support
8 sessions · 5.77M verified tokens · gpt-oss:20b, qwen3.5, Claude routed
~5 sessions · ~0.3M tokens · Research + brainstorming
iMessage-style animated replay of every prompt — 28 days of building together.
▶ Play Animation| # | Session | Tokens | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curio Terminal backend + MVP | ~1.5M | Mar 6 |
| 2 | YouTube comment database | ~1.2M | Mar 7 |
| 3 | Daily THunt video pipeline | ~0.8M | Mar 6 |
| 4 | Setting up cron jobs | ~0.7M | Mar 7 |
| 5 | Medialog project | ~0.5M | Feb 9 |
| 6 | Curio Archive site | ~0.4M | Feb 14 |
| 7 | CurioCharts NFT tracking | ~0.4M | Feb 13 |
| 8 | CurioCharts finishing | ~0.3M | Feb 18 |
| 9 | Twitter reader backend | ~0.3M | Feb 10 |
| 10 | CurioTerminal | ~0.3M | Feb 18 |
| Date | Project | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 7 | OpenClaw/LMStudio | Mac Mini M4 GPU setup, local AI |
| Feb 9 | MediaLog | Books & movies tracker (PHP, 782 books) |
| Feb 10 | Tweetster + MadPatrol | Twitter reader + retro game |
| Feb 11 | 1n2.org + Checklister | Domain, droplet, task app |
| Feb 13 | CurioCharts | NFT market dashboard (React) |
| Feb 14 | Curio Archive | Curio Cards encyclopedia |
| Feb 17 | Thomas Hunt Films | 38 videos, 5.5M views |
| Feb 18–19 | Curio Ecosystem | Terminal, Atlas, Data API, Review, Quant, Hub |
| Mar 5 | MB Games + Wiki + DID | Game lab, encyclopedia, causal analysis |
| Mar 6 | Data Labs + Bitcoin Trains | SQLite warehouse + animated BTC replay |
| Mar 7 | Dashboarder | 6-tab dark mode SPA |
| Mar 8 | Mad Bitcoins conductor | Animated train + personal timeline events |
ChatGPT served as research partner — architecture decisions, second opinions on code, API docs, and brainstorming. Analytics from visible session data.
| Metric | Codex | Claude | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sessions | 10 | 36 | Claude |
| Tokens | ~139M | ~8.5M | Codex |
| Projects | 23 | 40 | Claude |
| Lines of code | 30.6K | 105K | Claude |
| Date | Workspace | Tokens | What Was Built |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 10 | CODEX-PROJECTS | 29.98M | Checklister MVP scaffold, index.html, styles.css, app logic |
| Feb 14 | CODEX-PROJECTS | 1.47M | Curio Archive build pipeline, static page generation |
| Mar 4 | CODEX-PROJECTS | 2.56M | Mad Bitcoins design-to-code iteration |
| Mar 4 | GENBLOCK | 35.05M | GENBLOCK SGDK C code: enemy.c, visual.c, main.c |
| Mar 5 | CODEX-GAME | 47.50M | Retro game sprint: MB Games portal + mini-games |
| Mar 6 | BITCOINSHIPS | 0.48M | Bitcoin Ships tracker UI |
| Mar 6 | BITCOINTRAINS | 0.21M | Bitcoin Trains front-end |
| Mar 6 | NINJAMAD | 15.98M | Mad Bitcoins Ninja: player, enemies, art, stages |
| Mar 7 | CODEX-IMPRESS | 4.51M | Signal Studio, Agent Hangar, Briefsmith, Clip Arcade |
| Mar 8 | CODEX-usage | 1.49M | This analytics page |
Tokens from state_5.sqlite threads table. Lines counted from heredoc write actions in rollout JSONL files. 23 project folders from file write paths. Codex wins tokens by a wide margin but doesn't beat Claude on session count, project count, or LOC.
| Model | Params | Size | Context | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| qwen3.5 PRIMARY | 9B | 6.6 GB | 131K | Daily summaries |
| gpt-oss:20b | 20.9B | 13 GB | 32K | Newspapers, reviews |
| llama3 | 8B | 4.7 GB | 8K | Fallback |
| nomic-embed-text | 137M | 274 MB | — | Embeddings |
| Setting | Value |
|---|---|
| Version | OpenClaw v2026.3.2 |
| Port | localhost:18789 |
| Hardware | Mac Mini M4 — Metal GPU |
| Channels | Telegram (partial streaming) |
| Cron | Daily 1AM + LaunchAgent backup |
openclaw configure --section web| # | Job | AI? |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Data Labs Collect | — |
| 2 | City News (5 cities) | — |
| 3 | Entertainment | — |
| 4 | Ego Search | — |
| 5 | Tweetster (996 accts) | — |
| 6 | Facebooker | — |
| 7 | CurioCharts + Archive | — |
| 8 | CurioQuant | — |
| 9 | Article Archive | — |
| 10 | Dashboarder | — |
| 11 | Morning Summary → Telegram | qwen3.5 |
| 12 | Daily THunt newspaper | gpt-oss:20b |
| 13 | Daily Logs | — |
| 14 | Curio Review (Mondays) | gpt-oss:20b |
| 15 | Deploy to Droplet | — |
Gemini served as the research and planning layer — consulted before major architectural decisions, used for quick fact-checking during builds, and helped brainstorm creative solutions.
| Use Case | Description |
|---|---|
| Research | Architecture decisions, framework comparisons |
| Brainstorming | Project naming, feature ideas, content strategy |
| Fact-checking | Technical claims, API documentation |
| Planning | High-level roadmap before building with Claude |
| Quick questions | Syntax lookups, library comparisons |
| # | Topic | Tokens | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Curio ecosystem architecture | ~80K | Feb 18 |
| 2 | NFT market analysis for CurioCharts | ~60K | Feb 13 |
| 3 | Domain brainstorming (found 1n2.org) | ~40K | Feb 11 |
| 4 | Bitcoin history data for Bitcoin Trains | ~70K | Mar 6 |
| 5 | Theater/museum data for Dashboarder | ~50K | Mar 7 |
Token share: ~2% of ~15.8M total