Over The Last Week I’ve Dived Deep Into #OpenClaw And Understanding The Deep Agentic Workflows It Can Execute. ClawHub Is A Bit Of A Minefield But Having Spent Hours With My New ‘Chief Of Staff’ Carolina (LinkedIn Profile Coming Soon) On Discord This Weekend I Think OpenClaw Is One Of Those Advancements That People Will Look Back On And Say, “I Was There When OpenClaw Was Released.”
One Things For Sure … #petersteinberg Has Built Something That Profoundly Moved The AI Needle. For A While, AI Has Mostly Been A Smart Assistant: Writing Things, Summarising Things, Helping You Think. Helpful, But Still Waiting Politely For Instructions… Like An Overachieving Caterpillar Hatching Into A Magnanimous Butterfly.🦋
When An Agent Can Hold Context, Use Tools, Move Between Systems, And Keep Going Without Needing A Human To Hand-hold Every Step, That Is Not Just SaaS.
What Feels Different Now Is That Autonomous Agents Are Starting To Do The Work, Not Just Talk About The Work. When An Agent Can Hold Context, Use Tools, Move Between Systems, And Keep Going Without Needing A Human To Hand-hold Every Step, That Is Not Just SaaS. That Is The Beginning Of Digital Labour.
And That Is Where People Are Still Underestimating This. Most Knowledge Work Is Not Deep Genius. It Is Reading, Deciding, Coordinating, Following Up, Updating Systems, And Moving Things Along. Or, To Put It More Bluntly, Opening 14 Tabs And Slowly Losing The Will To Live. Agents Are Starting To Take That Layer On. If Any More Evidence Is Needed Of This Groundbreaking Leap, #Anthropic Released Dispatch 10 Days Ago And Weaved Skill And Workflow Creation Into Cowork. So What One Developer In His Flat In Austria Built, Triggered An Ai Behemoth To Mirror It. #OpenAi Responded By Hiring Peter Who Is Exchanging Vienna For SF And Will Bring His Genius To OpenAi.
I Do Not Think This Means Humans Vanish But I Do Think It Means The Operating Model Of Business Changes Much Faster From Here. We Are Heading Into A World Where People Manage Agents, And Agents Increasingly Run The Workflows Of The Knowledge Economy. Bottom Line …. Knowledge Work And Knowledge Workers Are In The Cross Hairs. How Long Before It’s Just Agents Managing Agents. I’ve Already Discussed Hiring With Carolina And Getting Her A Sub-agent To Keep Up With All The SaaS To Ai Transformation Demand We Are Seeing Capsicum.
OpenClaw Is Not The Whole Story. But It Is A Very Real Proof Point That The Story Has Started.
… And If You Think It’s Too Hard To Setup Because There Is A Lot Of Command Line Kung Fu… You Are Partly Right, But Even A Novice Lobster Fisherman Like Me Got It Working… You Can’t Afford Not To… Even If For Just The Learning Curve.
Now Can Someone Tell Me How To Get An Endless Supply Of Tokens Because I Have A Dozen Workflows Running That Have To Keep Waiting For Token Refreshes And Premium / Pro Accounts Feel Like Teasers And Not Real Business Tools Yet…. It Feels Like 1998 And 160 Char Sms’s All Over Again 🫣😂 So Hopefully We Get To Massive Token Windows Soon.