It’s a slow burn, but if you keep using it, it seems to eventually catch fire as the agent builds up scripts and skills and together you build up systems of getting stuff done. In some ways it feels like building rapport with a junior. And like a junior, eventually, if you keep investing, the agent starts doing things that blow by your expectations.

By giving the agent its own isolated computer, I don’t have to care about how the project gets started and stored, I just say “I want ____” and ____ shows up. It’s not that it can do stuff that I can’t. It’s that it can do stuff that I would like but just couldn’t be bothered with.

I still dont understand the hype for any of this claw stuff

I think "Claw" as the noun for OpenClaw-like agents - AI agents that generally run on personal hardware, communicate via messaging protocols and can both act on direct instructions and schedule tasks - is going to stick.

Looking forward to seeing what we get next Christmas season, with the Claws / Clause double entendres.

inb4 "ClAWS run best on AWS."

I'll never understand the hype of buying a Mac Mini for this though. Sounds like the latest matcha-craze for tech bros

Problem is, Claws still use LLMs, so they're DOA.