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Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by cheschire »

giancarlostoro wrote: post #4

Mark Zuckerberg has thrown how much into AI and Microsoft is passing them by as if they don't even exist. You know that meme about how IE is the browser eating paste, while Firefox and Chrome fight it out... Meta AI is the "kid" eating paste, while Google, Anthropic, OpenAI and Microsoft duke it out. Edit for those curious: https://devhumor.com/content/uploads/images/August2016/Chrom...

Don’t fall for the hype cycle. Just wait till the blogosphere confirms that it’s useful stuff.

I doubt you’ll feel so strongly in a month or two.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by andsoitis »

observationist wrote: post #8
infecto wrote: post #2

Microsoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building cop…

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their ent…

> Microsoft is effectively dead.

Microsoft is the 4th largest company by market cap.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by homarp »

moolcool wrote: post #6

OpenClaw just seems so broken and insecure by-design. I feel like you'd have to be crazy to use it.

Windows is having a blast around security lately (e.g. https://therecord.media/microsoft-says-it-will-not-pursue-se... )

so I guess, one more tool does not really matter

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by grim_io »

observationist wrote: post #8
infecto wrote: post #2

Microsoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building cop…

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their ent…

I wish, but it's far from it.

There is no other IAM/SIEM solution that I know of out there that makes it possible for a single guy to manage the companies' strict compliance requirements.

The complete integration just keeps getting more valuable and hard to replace every day.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by economistbob »

andsoitis wrote: post #12
observationist wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their ent…

> Microsoft is effectively dead. Microsoft is the 4th largest company by market cap.

Enron was 7th.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by thewebguyd »

observationist wrote: post #8
infecto wrote: post #2

Microsoft is still going to win because they are the no risk option for many businesses but wow I might actually be embarrassed to be part of these efforts. I hate to use such hyperbolic language too but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI. From the useless frameworks they have been building on the Azure side, the partnership with Anthropic where they are still building cop…

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their ent…

Eh, I don't think they're quite dead yet. Microsoft isn't a direct parallel to IBM. IBM ignored the cloud early and fell behind because of it, they had to buy Red Hat to remain any kind of relevance at all.

Meanwhile, Azure is the #2 cloud and still growing pretty fast. They own nearly the entire dev tool ecosystem at most companies (Github, VSCode, NPM), and pretty much every single F500 company's IT runs on Microsoft tech, for better or for worse.

The mistake is thinking that Windows is still their flagship product. It's not, it's basically a side quest now.

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by saghm »

pulkittt wrote: post #15

What did i just read? Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated? And coding it is not even that hard

> Microsoft putting their name in total vibe coded slop that breaks every release and super bloated?

They never seem to have any problem with this if you take out the words "vibe coded", so it's not that crazy to me that adding it doesn't make a difference

Re: Microsoft announces Scout, an autonomous AI agent built on OpenClaw

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Post by vitally3643 »

andsoitis wrote: post #12
observationist wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How's your IBM mainframe doing, these days? Wait, you use Watson, right? IBM still exists. They're the perfect example of how far a corporate behemoth can keep rolling after it effectively dies. Microsoft is effectively dead. It's easier and less hassle to use Linux desktop environments than to wrestle with Windows bullshit. Their flagship product is a sad joke, their leadership is flailing for purpose, and their ent…

> Microsoft is effectively dead. Microsoft is the 4th largest company by market cap.

Tesla has shown very conclusively that that metric has almost nothing to do with reality.
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