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It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI.

Similar YOLO attitude to OpenAI's launch of modern LLMs while Google was still worrying about all the legal and safety implications. The free market does not often reward conservative responsible thinking. That's where government regulation comes in.

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> It worked to launch the creator into a gig at OpenAI.

True, but it doesn't scale. No amount of YOLO will let anyone else repeat that feat.

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OpenClaw was an inevitability. An obvious idea that predates LLMs. It took this long for models and pricing to catch up. As much as I dislike this term, if there's one clear example of "Product Model Fit", it's OpenClaw - well, except that arguably what made it truly possible was subscription pricing introduced with Claude Code; before, people were extremely conservative with tokens.

But the point is, OpenClaw is just the first that lucked and got viral. If not for it, something equivalent would. Much like LangChain in the early LLM days.

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OpenClaw, the ultimate example of Facebook's motto "Move Fast and Break Things"
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MSDOS and similar single-user OS were not originally designed for networked computers with persistent storage. Different set of constraints.
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