Infra eng leader, SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
Obsessed with history, computers, and open systems.
Unconditional love for all conscious creatures.
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Jake Gold
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I guess it is a big deal.
This is an open source effort, not in any way proprietary, and completely open to contributions from any organization.
The core feature of systems like OpenClaw is that they make it possible to run full coding agents asynchronously in the background with sufficient access to actually do things for you.
For all the other features and the hype, we're basically just talking about what I'm calling 'agentic cron jobs'.
Sad to say, decades later, I'm *sure* that the clever crontab syntax is not the right long-term solution to the problem.
It's just too hard for humans to parse even with tons of experience.
The non-standard attempts at adding "@hourly" and /etc/cron.hourly did solve this problem to a large extent.
My new thing, Clor, is something I'm very excited about, which is a system for creating "claws" using Claude/Codex CLIs.
These claws are like cron jobs that run agent-based tasks on any of your computers. You manage them with a /claws skill in Claude/Codex.
Got some cool blogs coming soon!
When I *finally* remember to play music after 4 hours of silent focused work.
Having a UI element that constantly shimmers and changes without conveying any new information is silly.
```
Please update my Claude settings with:
"spinnerVerbs": {
"mode": "replace",
"verbs": ["Working"]
}
"prefersReducedMotion": true
```
One thing (almost) everyone can be happy about is that this generation of AI technology isn't owned by any one company, or even any one country, and at this point never could be.
Maybe the best reason to be optimistic about the benefits accruing to users in ways that ultimately leave us better off.
25 years ago, I was a teenager sitting in my room with CRT monitors and a microphone, using CVoiceControl on Slackware Linux to run commands by shouting into the mic in a poor attempt at building "The Computer" from Star Trek TNG.
"ELL ESS!"
"HOME!"
I'm having *a lot* more success these days!
Most people will prefer talking to computers by a lot.
Not because anyone will force them to.
Because typing commands and navigating apps will start to feel incredibly tedious by comparison.
