ChatGPT and Claude are great, but they only do things when you ask them to. OpenClaw is something else. It is an AI agent that, taking advantage of the power of ChatGPT or Claude (or other models), becomes your personal employee and does everything you ask, but in an autonomous and proactive way.
This is something that the industry has been promising for years, and although some steps had already been taken in that direction with AIs that, for example, can reserve a table for you in a restaurant, OpenClaw goes a little further because you basically “give them the keys to the office”.
So, when you install it on a machine (or a VPS, or a Raspberry Pi, or a Docker container, or wherever you want) you give this AI agent superpowers, because it will be able to do everything it wants on that machine. You will be able to use all the apps you have, browser included, and use all those tools to do things for you. It is, we insist, like having an employee who works for you 24 hours a day and who, if you don’t want to, will never rest.
The concept is super powerful, but of course it has some buts. The most important one is security risks, and in this episode we talk about how to protect yourself so that that virtual employee doesn’t end up messing you up and causing chaos. We also have to talk about costs, because this AI agent is a true “token glutton” and you will have to be practical when choosing which models you want to use it with.
We talk about all that and many more things in this episode Crossover 1×42, which serves as an introduction to a fascinating topic. Be careful, this is addictive.
And YouTube | Crossover
In WorldOfSoftware | OpenClaw changed the rules of the AI race. Technology companies already have their answer: copy it
