Jim Schweizer
@jimschweizer.bsky.social
AI Researcher, Photographer, Historian... and a little bit of this and that. Living in Aurora, IL, living large in the Fox Valley and an occasional visitor to our suburb to the east, Chicago, or is that Naperville... a once and future digital nomad.
Open Source, runs locally, autonomous and protects your AI data sovereignty - what's not to like about a clone of Claude Code? I'm going to find out today!
block.github.io/goose/
block.github.io/goose/
goose
your open source AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly
block.github.io
January 21, 2026 at 1:48 PM
Open Source, runs locally, autonomous and protects your AI data sovereignty - what's not to like about a clone of Claude Code? I'm going to find out today!
block.github.io/goose/
block.github.io/goose/
In case the long weekend buried this:
"Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind.
Catch up below.
#VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
"Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind.
Catch up below.
#VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
Yes, it's happening now.
open.substack.com
January 20, 2026 at 1:32 PM
In case the long weekend buried this:
"Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind.
Catch up below.
#VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
"Vibe coding" went from meme to mainstream in under 12 months. If you're still wondering whether AI is "real," you're already behind.
Catch up below.
#VibeCoding #AI #FutureOfWork
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
I wrote about that "Internet moment" I mentioned yesterday. What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator? It's happening now - in Aurora, IL of all places.
#VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
#VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
Yes, it's happening now.
open.substack.com
January 19, 2026 at 6:34 PM
I wrote about that "Internet moment" I mentioned yesterday. What happens when AI stops being a tool and starts being a collaborator? It's happening now - in Aurora, IL of all places.
#VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
#VibeCoding #ClaudeCode #BuildInPublic
Vibe Coding in Aurora, IL?
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Been "vibe coding" ideas with Claude Code for a couple of weeks. My thinking about workflow will never be the same.
Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life?
It's that kind of moment.
Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life?
It's that kind of moment.
January 18, 2026 at 1:50 PM
Been "vibe coding" ideas with Claude Code for a couple of weeks. My thinking about workflow will never be the same.
Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life?
It's that kind of moment.
Remember that moment when you really internalized the realization that the Internet would change your life?
It's that kind of moment.
LLMs? Yesterday's news.
LRMs? Here now.
LAMs? Coming fast.
The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade.
Building an AI Partnership
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LRMs? Here now.
LAMs? Coming fast.
The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade.
Building an AI Partnership
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Building an AI Partnership
The Relationship You Get to Keep
open.substack.com
December 17, 2025 at 3:01 PM
LLMs? Yesterday's news.
LRMs? Here now.
LAMs? Coming fast.
The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade.
Building an AI Partnership
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
LRMs? Here now.
LAMs? Coming fast.
The question isn't keeping up. It's building something that survives the parade.
Building an AI Partnership
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Most Chicagoland natives don't know: Aurora's founder arrived in 1834 to find a thriving Potawatomi village. The chief's lodge was engineered so well, a professional millwright marveled at it. (Multiple AIs were used in writing this fiction.)
Fish for Bread
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Fish for Bread
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Fish for Bread
Using AIs to create local storytelling
open.substack.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Most Chicagoland natives don't know: Aurora's founder arrived in 1834 to find a thriving Potawatomi village. The chief's lodge was engineered so well, a professional millwright marveled at it. (Multiple AIs were used in writing this fiction.)
Fish for Bread
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Fish for Bread
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"We know it works. We don't know why it works. And honestly, we're moving too fast to figure that out."
Sound familiar?
The Preservation Problem
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Sound familiar?
The Preservation Problem
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The Preservation Problem
The Gap Between What AI Can Do and What You Can Keep, Data Sovereignty and Persistent Memory.
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
"We know it works. We don't know why it works. And honestly, we're moving too fast to figure that out."
Sound familiar?
The Preservation Problem
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Sound familiar?
The Preservation Problem
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Multi-Platform Reality
Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things.
This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply.
Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why?
AI Leaderboard
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Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things.
This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply.
Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why?
AI Leaderboard
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
AI Leaderboard
and Google's AI Studio
open.substack.com
December 4, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Multi-Platform Reality
Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things.
This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply.
Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why?
AI Leaderboard
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Real talk: I use multiple AIs for different things.
This week Google's ahead, so I'm exploring their ecosystem more deeply.
Which AIs are in your toolkit? Why?
AI Leaderboard
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Week 3: The question that's reshaping how we think about AI value: "Which AI is smartest?" vs "Which combination creates the intelligence my work actually needs?" One keeps you on the leaderboard treadmill. The other puts you ahead of it.
The Intelligence Between
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The Intelligence Between
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The Intelligence Between
Why Your Best AI Collaborations Happen in the Spaces, Not the Systems
open.substack.com
December 3, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Week 3: The question that's reshaping how we think about AI value: "Which AI is smartest?" vs "Which combination creates the intelligence my work actually needs?" One keeps you on the leaderboard treadmill. The other puts you ahead of it.
The Intelligence Between
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The Intelligence Between
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
December 2, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Here's a quick recap of our AI collaboration series:
Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong
Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered
The Completeness Principle
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Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong
Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered
The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The Completeness Principle
Why Your AI Forgets What Actually Matters
open.substack.com
December 1, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Here's a quick recap of our AI collaboration series:
Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong
Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered
The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Week 1: Your AI is making you faster at working wrong
Week 2: The problem isn't capability - it's memory. (link below) Current AI remembers what you said but forgets why it mattered
The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
This Thanksgiving, be grateful your family remembers why things matter, not just what was said. Your AI? Not so much. Week 2 of our relational AI discussion explores why dimensional memory beats data retrieval every time.
The Completeness Principle
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The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The Completeness Principle
Why Your AI Forgets What Actually Matters
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This Thanksgiving, be grateful your family remembers why things matter, not just what was said. Your AI? Not so much. Week 2 of our relational AI discussion explores why dimensional memory beats data retrieval every time.
The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The Completeness Principle
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The looming divide: one sees AI as liberation, another sees loss of authenticity, autonomy erosion, and reduction of humans to optimization targets. A synthesis of selective AI augmentation, democratic governance, and recognition that some domains should remain primarily human offers a third path.
November 20, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The looming divide: one sees AI as liberation, another sees loss of authenticity, autonomy erosion, and reduction of humans to optimization targets. A synthesis of selective AI augmentation, democratic governance, and recognition that some domains should remain primarily human offers a third path.
Are your AIs making you incredibly efficient at the wrong things? Here's why companies with massive AI innovation plans aren't seeing their bottom lines improve - and what you can do about it in your planning.
Your AI is Making You Faster
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Your AI is Making You Faster
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Your AI is Making You Faster
at Working Wrong
open.substack.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Are your AIs making you incredibly efficient at the wrong things? Here's why companies with massive AI innovation plans aren't seeing their bottom lines improve - and what you can do about it in your planning.
Your AI is Making You Faster
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
Your AI is Making You Faster
open.substack.com/pub/jimschwe...
The people who need to read this don't yet know they're in this field. They are in your kitchen, your friend's house and on every corner of every block. Relational AI is already here, people are already doing it, but you haven't really thought about it, yet.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-archit...
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-archit...
The Architecture of AI Intimacy
Analyzing the Consequences of the Shift to Relational AI Collaboration
jimschweizer.substack.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The people who need to read this don't yet know they're in this field. They are in your kitchen, your friend's house and on every corner of every block. Relational AI is already here, people are already doing it, but you haven't really thought about it, yet.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-archit...
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Crypto loses billions to fraud. Aurora, IL wastes IT money on Vegas junkets. Bob's not anti-technology or anti-government, he's just pro-accountability. Neither has earned his trust. Yet.
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jimschweizer.substack.com/p/bobs-thoug...
Bob’s Thoughts on “That Crypto Whatcha-ma-call-it Report”
maybe someday I'll trust crypto but not today
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October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Crypto loses billions to fraud. Aurora, IL wastes IT money on Vegas junkets. Bob's not anti-technology or anti-government, he's just pro-accountability. Neither has earned his trust. Yet.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/bobs-thoug...
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/bobs-thoug...
Reposted by Jim Schweizer
Laughed so hard at this that a Japanese woman on the shinkansen shushed me
Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.
October 25, 2025 at 4:33 AM
Laughed so hard at this that a Japanese woman on the shinkansen shushed me
Reposted by Jim Schweizer
A government that will lie about everything from warfare to welfare isn’t going to make an exception for an ongoing pandemic.
Covid is not over.
Covid is not over.
October 24, 2025 at 6:12 PM
A government that will lie about everything from warfare to welfare isn’t going to make an exception for an ongoing pandemic.
Covid is not over.
Covid is not over.
Reposted by Jim Schweizer
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987
YouTube video by Reagan Library
youtu.be
October 24, 2025 at 5:14 PM
So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube.
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X).
*1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.”
youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc
Our latest Substack explores what happens when your AI knows you better than your therapist, why empathy atrophy is now a technical term, and whether we're building humanity's greatest productivity unlock or most sophisticated self-distraction mechanism.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...
The Relational AI Revolution
A User’s Guide to Your New Best Friend (Who Never Sleeps)
jimschweizer.substack.com
October 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Our latest Substack explores what happens when your AI knows you better than your therapist, why empathy atrophy is now a technical term, and whether we're building humanity's greatest productivity unlock or most sophisticated self-distraction mechanism.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/the-relati...
The face of urban #AuroraIL economic development was/is just beginning to shine with new downtown living space next to the train station:
October 21, 2025 at 1:59 PM
The face of urban #AuroraIL economic development was/is just beginning to shine with new downtown living space next to the train station:
This month the collection grew with Funkadelic's Maggot Brain remix (180 gm) and In The Court Of The Crimson King (50th Anniversary Edition On 200 gm vinyl)...
Heavy listening!
Heavy listening!
October 16, 2025 at 12:11 PM
This month the collection grew with Funkadelic's Maggot Brain remix (180 gm) and In The Court Of The Crimson King (50th Anniversary Edition On 200 gm vinyl)...
Heavy listening!
Heavy listening!
Broke a Murano art glass piece this morning while cleaning up a dog mess. At least we got to enjoy its beauty for a while, and the puppy is feeling better.
An anecdote for the times?
An anecdote for the times?
October 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
Broke a Murano art glass piece this morning while cleaning up a dog mess. At least we got to enjoy its beauty for a while, and the puppy is feeling better.
An anecdote for the times?
An anecdote for the times?
Grateful for the response to this piece about a series of unfortunate IT expenditures.
Sometimes the best way to document institutional dysfunction is to let the absurdity speak for itself.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/auroras-re...
Sometimes the best way to document institutional dysfunction is to let the absurdity speak for itself.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/auroras-re...
Aurora's Revolutionary IT Strategy
A Case Study in Creative Expense Management in Aurora, IL - Onlight Aurora, a lost fiber optic opporunity
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October 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Grateful for the response to this piece about a series of unfortunate IT expenditures.
Sometimes the best way to document institutional dysfunction is to let the absurdity speak for itself.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/auroras-re...
Sometimes the best way to document institutional dysfunction is to let the absurdity speak for itself.
jimschweizer.substack.com/p/auroras-re...