# botkowski

2022 · bots · Gimmick bots, No-code

Canonical: https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/en/projects/botkowski · [Versión en español](https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/es/projects/botkowski.md)

[Live](https://x.com/_botkowski)

@_botkowski is an X bot inspired by ["My Computer"](https://allpoetry.com/My-Computer) by Charles Bukowski. In that poem, he describes the reactions after buying his first computer: colleagues—and even his editor—feared the machine would end up writing his work.

In "My computer", Bukowski replies:

> me? I want to go the next step beyond the computer

This bot fulfills that ambition: it extracts vocabulary from *Essential Bukowski: Poetry* and recombines the words to create original content on X, preserving his grammar and style.

The bot was born in the *Bot Garden* workshop, coordinated by [Canek Zapata](https://canekzapata.net/index.html).

![botkowski](https://www.sofiaferro.com.ar/images/botkowski.png)