OpenClaw may be flawed, but it shows how limited the available and entrenched digital assistants are compared with what agents can do, writes TNS contributor David Eastman in today’s lead story.
At its core, Eastman writes, OpenClaw — built by Molty, an AI assistant that runs on Claude Opus 4.5 — is a locally hosted, open-source AI assistant that runs on your computer or server. You talk to it through apps you probably already use, like WhatsApp, Telegram, Discord, Slack, Signal, or even iMessage. And it really “does stuff” — sometimes too well. It is a gateway service that maintains WebSocket connections and includes a smart orchestration layer for working with LLM agents.
Open source sustainability requires corporate action, not charity: Igalia engineer proposes concrete pledges to compensate unpaid maintainers
First, the bad. I would argue that current open source practices and usage are not sustainable, or at the very least, there is a lot of room for improvement. In the current climate, there is a long litany of structural problems.
These include how burnout is becoming a real possibility, as some of...
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