Writing · May 24, 2026
A town of $0 AI characters, built while I slept
DevOps in 2026 is also FinOps for AI. Following OpenClaw, my $0/month personal assistant, Holtwick is a town of NPCs at $0/month: twelve persona-driven AI characters whose voices stream in under a second from Cloudflare and Groq's free tiers, in a 3D world that overnight Ralph loops built while I slept.