I built an OpenClaw AI agent to do my job for me. The results were surprising—and a little scary

The hottest AI tool on the market today isn’t a powerful frontier model from the likes of OpenAI or Anthropic.

Rather, it’s a kludgey, wildly complex, open-source platform that’s already provoked a trademark dispute, multiple corporate bans—and fawning praise from developers around the world.

It’s OpenClaw, and it’s specifically designed to build AI agents.

I set it up, built an agent of my own, and promptly trained it to do my job for me. Here’s what happened.