Developers are rubbish at naming things!
The hype about Clawdbot, sorry Openclaw, piqued my interest which had been over-piqued by other things during the week just gone. So I’ve decided to install it and communicate with it via Telegram, it’s running on my Mac mini and not doing much useful yet. I’m going to give it browser search skills to keep tabs on certain technologies and their ongoing development, gathering information for me and to generate Obsidian documents for me to review periodically. It will do this whilst I sleep.
I’m very much with those of you who are terrified of losing jobs and livelihoods due to AI. I get it, I’m worried about it too but I also feel that by turning a blind eye, isn’t useful either. I’m keen to explore the technology and use it as a tool, much like a hammer and chisel can sculpt a chair, so can a specialist machine in a factory do the same job in less time.
As a software engineer I’ve found it useful but then I do find it terrifying when shown a video that’s AI generated and for all of a few seconds fooled into believing it’s real footage but the post normally drops in the 6th second, no no no this isn’t real you bastards, you’ve had me on. It’s the deceit that troubles me deeply. We are now questioning the many things we see, day to day.
However when it comes to batching tasks, agents can be very powerful.