Chat, Code, Claw: What Happens When AI Agents Work in Teams

Recent AI progress can be divided into roughly three phases. First we had chatbots, designed to converse. Then, those chatbots became proficient at using tools, allowing them to do things like search the web and write code. Now, thanks to a proliferation of new frameworks—notably the “OpenClaw” frame behind Moltbook’s virality—those tool-using agents can be orchestrated in fleets. 

If a tool-using chatbot is like a single digital worker, these new frameworks are like virtual firms in which dozens of agents...