About

I’m Oliver Hitchings — an IT engineer based in the UK. Online I go by CanYouLikeNot. I spend most of my free time building with AI: writing autonomous agents, wiring up local models, and figuring out where the limits actually are.

The main project is OpenClaw: a local-first autonomous AI platform that runs natively on a Mac Mini (M-series, 64GB RAM) in my flat. It has its own gateway, agents, cron jobs, memory store, and channels into Telegram and Discord. It runs Qwen3.6 locally for the background work and routes to Codex (via free ChatGPT OAuth) and Claude Opus when it needs the big guns. Total cloud cost: $0.

Day to day I drive Claude Code and the Codex CLI for almost every coding task. This site is where I write about what works, what doesn’t, and what feels like it’s about to change everything about how engineers actually work.

What you’ll find here

  • Practical write-ups on building with AI agents
  • Deep-dives into OpenClaw’s architecture as it evolves
  • Workflows, hooks, and tricks for Claude Code and Codex
  • Honest takes on where the future of working is heading

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