OpenClaw

Yeah, I like your point about the guardrails.

I mean, I've been, you know, with you on this whole journey and agentic AI in the spring with OpenClaw.

I was very excited.

But I mean, OpenClaw is really, you know, the...

You know, you invite someone over to your house, you tell them where the bathroom is and they end up in your wife's bedroom looking at her jewelry, right? Like open claws just going everywhere, like off the rails.

And so that's why I really think if you haven't jumped into this stuff, I think this is the first model where you can be comfortable hooking in your data sources and giving it a try yourself personally and really connect your phone too.

So the intelligence level of the systems I focus on a lot, and I'm gonna get into that with Astra after I respond to Grokbot.

Grokbot had a huge influence on me two weeks, because the tool side of it immediately resonated, because after, whatever it's been, seven months since I set up OpenClaw on my own laptop, I've had at least twenty-five different times where either it broke, it-- the computer was shut by the housekeeper, a whole bunch of things, okay? [chuckles] Where, uh, I, I-- It just drove me nuts because I'm like, "When are we gonna get to the point?" Now, Grokbot changed all that immediately.

It was...

It's so easy to use.

And I think it's important to design for very quick iteration and change.

I remember when I talked with Peter Steinberger, that was before he joined OpenAI, but about OpenClaw and how he thinks about it.

He told me that he doesn't read the code, but he kept thinking about it.

I could see that he's holding the architecture in his head, and he was telling me how he re-architects a lot, and he thinks about how to make it modular, how to allow 100 contributors to each build their thing without stepping on each other's toes.

On May 13th.

By the way, the pause there, I know some people, that brings us back to an OpenClaw issue.

The fact that these agents are starting message boards on their own without instruction to communicate with each other, that was a part of OpenClaw that eventually kind of dropped down in interest because it turned out a lot of the posts that ended up on one of the message boards were humans and not bots.

But I do think I find it just still interesting that this is the second instance of them actually starting their own communication back channel.

Yeah.