Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents

Getting a little meta here .

If we were to consider this with an economics-type lens, one could say that there is a finite-yet-unbounded field of possibility within which we can stake our ground to provide value. This field is finite in that we (as individuals, groups, or societies) only have so much knowledge and technology with which to explore the field. As we gain more in either category, the field expands.

Maybe an analogy for this would be terraforming an inhospitable planet such as Mars - our ability to extract value from it and support an increasing amount of actors is limited by how fast we can make it habitable.

the efficiency of industrialization results in less space in the field for people to create value. So the boundaries must be expanded. It's a different kind of work, and maybe this is the distinction between toil and creative work.

And we're in a world now where there is decreasing toil-work -- it's a resource that is becoming more and more scarce. So we must find creative, entrepreneurial ways to keep up.

Anyways, back to the kitchen sink -- doing our dishes is simply not as urgent as doing the creative thing that will help you stay afloat. With this anxious pressure in mind it makes sense to me that people reach for using AI to (attempt to) do the latter.

AI is great at toil-work, so we feel that it ought to be good at creative work too. The lines between the two are very blurry, and there is so much hype and things are moving so fast. But I think the ones who do figure out how to grow in this era will be those who learn to tell the distinction between the two, and resist the urge to let an LLM do the creative work for them. The kids in college right now who don't use AI to write for them, but use it to help gather research and so on.

Another planetary example comes to mind -- it's like there's a new Western gold rush frontier - but instead of it being open territory spanning beyind the horizon, it's slowly being revealed as the water recedes, and we are all already crowded at the shore.

Local LLM from my basic messing around is a toy. I really wanted to make it work and was willing to invest 5 figures into it if my basic testing showed promise - but it’s utterly useless for the things I want to eventually bring to “prod” with such a setup. Largely live devops/sysadmin style tasking. I don’t want to mess around hyper-optimizing the LLM efficiency itself.

I’m still learning so perhaps I’m totally off base - happy to be corrected - but even if I was able to get a 50x performance increase at 50% of the LLM capabilities it would be a non-starter due to speed of iteration loops.

With opelclaw burning 20-50M/tokens a day with codex just during “playing around in my lab” stage I can’t see any local LLM short of multiple H200s or something being useful, even as I get more efficient with managing my context.

I would love to subscribe to / pay for service that are just APIs. Then have my agent organize them how I want.

Imagine youtube, gmail, hacker news, chase bank, whatsapp, the electric company all being just apis.

You can interact how you want. The agent can display the content the way you choose.

Incumbent companies will fight tooth and nail to avoid this future. Because it's a future without monopoly power. Users could more easily switch between services.

Tech would be less profitable but more valuable.

It's the future we can choose right now by making products that compete with this mindset.