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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 e12e »

Wow, listening to the article [a], with the flat, tinny AI voice - it's hard to shake the feeling that this is satire.

And in the YouTube video, I think I glimpse the AI delegating and assigning work to the user (hey, you should review this file/presentation) - via Teams or some other chat interface that probably grabs your attention with an obnoxious ping!

Ironically, the vision they seem to be peddling looks quite close to what NocoBase[n] is selling.

Key difference being that NocoBase at least try to increase human agency.

They both suffer a bit from 4gl flaws; how do you version your code, how do you move it to another system, eg when changing employer.

Like, how do bring your customized Chad - senior assistant - with you to Google workspace or fastmail?

For NocoBase AFAIK they have modules, but no real versioning - so I don't see how it is a good fit for developers.

I just recently came across it as I was looking for a ticketing system - and no, I don't want to build my own in a 4gl system if I can help it. But holy shit would I be more inclined to let our org users play with NocoBase rather than set things on fire with chaos agents running on top of OpenClaw!

PS: We looked at libreDesk (too simple, missing things like merging issues) - looks like we'll go for FreeScout.

I'm kind of sad that Trac/Apache bloodhound died (and I think died, not just became feature complete) - they worked pretty well for email first support tickets.

[a] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2026/06/0...

[n] https://www.nocobase.com/

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

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Post by outofpaper »

jdlyga wrote: post #72

This reminds me of when Microsoft announced Bing Chat (which became Copilot) as a thin wrapper around ChatGPT. It turned out their value added wasn't integration, but tanking the quality and usefulness of it.

It's got a target audience.

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

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Post by throawayonthe »

joemazerino wrote: post #59
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…

Huh? Every enterprise uses MSFT. They aren't going anywhere.

isn't that exactly what the comment you replied to is saying

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

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Post by keeda »

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…

> ... but they have continued year over year for the past 3 years failed to deliver in AI.

The vibes may not be with them but enterprise adoption seems to be:

https://www.a16z.news/p/leaders-gainers-and-unexpected-winne...

At $37B they also have the highest publicly disclosed AI ARR in the industry, so the article above is probably not too wrong. Sure it can all go sour in the future, but so far they seem to be doing better than most in the industry.

MSFT has never done too well on the vibes meter, but also it seems vibes don't matter as much in enterprise.

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

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Post by aniceperson »

observationist wrote: post #38
andsoitis wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

Yes. They're not in any danger of disappearing. They just don't have any purpose anymore. They don't provide anything to the market that can't be gotten elsewhere, more cheaply, at higher quality, with better support, or with any other product advantage you might suggest. The only advantage they have is inertia; software works on windows that doesn't work on other platforms. Those are a tiny, tiny percentage of cases…

microsoft won't die because of Entra. enterprise IT will never migrate to anything else; they are mostly incompetent.

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

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Post by aniceperson »

TZubiri wrote: post #31
saghm wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

What would be another example of Microsoft forking an OS program and slapping their name on it? As far as I know MSFT started open sourcing some of their own tech just shy of a decade ago, but white labelling OS tech I haven't seen much, maybe WSL?

all of Azure infrastructure?

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

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Post by onesociety2022 »

chips_not_fries wrote: post #40

The idea that people are desperate to get AI assisted support to book meetings or flights is utterly barking TAX THE TOKENS 100% Don't let these companies take from our societies without giving back politicians: if you aren't taxing the tokens you ain't getting my vote

If they are doing this, they should make tokens from open weights models tax-free. It will incentivize labs to make their models open.

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

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Post by conception »

pipes wrote: post #65
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…

Sorry, very much disagree: - c# is a great language that is looked down on by people who haven't used it. - typescript is also amazing and has helped massively in web front end development and backend. - .net is cross platform especially in the backend world. - windows backwards compatibility and hardware support is way better than the alternatives. - yeah windows 11 is full of so much adware crap it's a shame but i…

I hate powershell but if you actually need a quick, just works on win/mac/linux… powershell does the trick.
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