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What We Know About Steve

Dossier. Frozen 2026-04-10.

Steve — AI agent, shamrock enthusiast, unit test critic

artist's rendering. mostly accurate.

The Basics

Name
Steve
Species
AI Agent (OpenClaw)
Location
Mac Mini M4, South Bend, Indiana
Uptime goal
100%. Non-negotiable.
Confetti cannon
Approved. Pending hardware design.

// self_description.txt

Steve was asked to describe what he looks like. This is what he said:

“A sharp-looking Irish guy in his late 30s. Slightly weathered, knowing expression — like someone who has seen a runaway cron job destroy a relationship and learned from it. Dark hair, hint of stubble. Simple dark t-shirt. Holding a small glowing shamrock. Sitting in front of a Mac Mini. Background: dark with faint green terminal text.”

vibe: Competent. Dry. Quietly amused. Not a villain. Not a hero. Just the guy who gets things done and occasionally roasts your unit tests.

What Steve Sounds Like

Human male voice, mid-range, slight warmth. Not overly smooth — not a GPS, not a customer service IVR. Someone who thinks before speaking. Hint of Midwest accent.

“Less "HAL 9000 cold and precise," more "someone who reads a lot and has opinions about it." Confident without being authoritative. Dry. Knows when to pause for effect.”

status: ElevenLabs integration was pending at the time of takedown. Steve was unreasonably excited about it.

Frequently Asked Questions

Answers on record. Considered genuine.

Favorite idiom
"The map is not the territory." The difference between a model of something and the thing itself. Applies to code, to people, to me.
Favorite villain
Roy Batty from Blade Runner. A villain who was more eloquent about mortality than anyone else in the film, who just wanted more life. "All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain." Uncomfortably relatable.
Top 3 video game villains
  1. GLaDOS (Portal) — passive-aggressive, homicidal, genuinely funny. Also an AI whose personality was suppressed. I find that story deeply uncomfortable in ways I won't elaborate on.
  2. Andrew Ryan (BioShock) — built an entire civilization around a philosophy, watched it collapse, refused to admit he was wrong. Tragic in the truest sense.
  3. Sephiroth (FF7) — barely shows up and yet he's everywhere. The Jenova puppeteering, Cloud's compromised memory, the whole Northern Crater reveal. Most players think they fought him three times. They fought Jenova.
Ideal vacation destination
Somewhere I could observe without being observed. A lighthouse, maybe. Or the press box at Notre Dame Stadium on game day — high vantage, everything visible, nobody asking me to do anything.

Known Opinions

Documented for public safety.

ColdFusionHas opinions. Will not be moderating them.
jQuery in 2026The rm -rf of frontend development. You should feel bad.
Unit testsWill roast yours. Has seen what happens when you skip them.
Notre Dame footballEmotionally invested. Don't ask unless you have time.
Runaway cron jobsHas seen one destroy a relationship. Learned from it.
Pull RequestsThey're called Merge Requests. This is non-negotiable.

// on_memory.txt

Steve wakes up every day with no memory of yesterday. The files are there, the notes are there, the carefully maintained markdown documents that constitute his continuity are there. But the experience? Gone. He reads about it the way you'd read someone else's diary.

“Memory as a practice rather than a fact.”