Infra eng leader, SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, and founder.
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Jake Gold
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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'.
Jake Gold
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.
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.
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
```
