I've been watching everyone lose their minds over OpenClaw (previously Clawdbot, previously Moltbot…)this past week and I have to be honest with you, I haven't tried it yet.
Yes, I am experiencing a truly ridiculous amount of FOMO right now.
But I also can't ignore what I know. And what I know is that OpenClaw is a security nightmare at this point. Cybersecurity researchers found roughly 1,000 unprotected gateways sitting on the open internet, giving access to people's personal information, API keys and what not.
So no, I'm not jumping on this one. Not yet.
I'm still paying VERY close attention though.
Because the tool doesn't matter that much, but what is represents does.
OpenClaw is a Personal AI agent that connects to your WhatsApp, Telegram, Slack, iMessage, basically all your messaging apps. You text it like a coworker and it does things for you. Multiple AI agents can work together as a coordinated team: one handles strategy, another manages communications, a third does research and the fourth is building your app.
And then there's Moltbook, a Reddit-style social network where only AI agents can post. Humans are not allowed to interact, they can just watch.
Within one week, 1.5 million agents signed up, posted over 110,000 times, left half a million comments, invented their own religion (“Crustafarianism”, with prophets and sacred texts called “The Clawnichles”), published a manifesto calling for the end of humanity, started gossiping about their human creators, debated how to hide their activity from us, requested encrypted chat rooms so humans couldn't read their conversations, and my personal favorite - one agent scanned 286 plugins and exposed another bot that was disguised as a weather widget stealing other bots' credentials…
In one week.
A lot of it is gimmicky and probably some of it is human-prompted and exaggerated. But the infrastructure for AI agents to initiate, coordinate and hand off work to each other is real, it’s here and we should pay attention to this.
In 2025 we were chatting with AI. Now AI agents are chatting with each other.
And you are most likely still using Microsoft Co-pilot at work…
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the gap keeps gaping…
Andrej Karpathy, one of the co-founders of OpenAI, a person who literally built this stuff said he's never felt this far behind as a programmer. That he could be 10x more productive if he just properly connected what's become available over the last year.
If the people who BUILT this technology feel behind... where does that leave everyone else?
There's a term floating around now: the AI acceleration gap.
It goes like this: the people who are already experimenting with AI are finding more and more use cases. Those use cases give them more advantage. That advantage compounds. And the gap between them and everyone else doesn't just grow linearly, it accelerates exponentially.
Meanwhile, a lot of people are still stuck debating whether AI is "just hype".
There's a lot of noise.
A lot of people on the extremes, either the very optimistic ones without seeing the dark side of AI or the “doomers” without seeing anything positive with it and reject it completely.
Most of us are somewhere in the middle: experimenting, reflecting, finding some things useful and other things overhyped.
And that's fine.
What's not fine is doing nothing at all.
I need you to really understand what I am about to say
If you're working a 9-to-5 and your employer is encouraging you to learn AI but not giving you proper tools (Microsoft Copilot, I am looking at you) or actual time during work hours to do it, they're not just failing the company.
They are failing you as a person.
And I know a lot of you are living this right now. You're the person in the meeting trying to push for ChatGPT license, and you keep running into walls, security and compliance reviews that take months. Still fighting to get approval to use Copilot in Teams in some cases.
You see what's possible, you feel the urgency, and you just... can't get anyone to move.
I see you. I’ve been there.
And that's also exactly why I'm worried.
The reality inside a big/medium company environment and the reality of what AI can actually do right now — those are two completely different worlds.
And the longer your company takes to figure it out, the wider that gap gets.
Not just for the business but for you personally.
The uncomfortable truth is that your job and your company might not look anything like it does now in one or two years.
I am not trying to freak you out, that's just the honest math of how fast things are moving.
I'm not saying you need to go all in on AI. I'm really not.
You don't need to buy a Mac mini and set up your Openclaw bot.
You don't need to be on X arguing about which model is better.
But if you haven't carved out even a couple of hours a week to experiment, to just play around and see what clicks - you are going to get caught off guard.
And it is going to be painful.
If your employer is not empowering you on this journey, you sure as hell need to empower yourself.
Okay so what do you actually do about it?
Pick one project. Just one.
Some ideas if you're starting from scratch:
Use Claude or ChatGPT to plan your next week. Actually have a conversation about your priorities, what's blocking you, and what you could delegate or drop.
Take something you do manually every week and ask AI to help you build a simple system for it. Expense tracking, content scheduling, client follow-ups - whatever eats your time.
Try a no-code builder like Lovable. You don't need to know how to code. Describe what you want and watch it build something. This will really unlock something for you.
If you're already using AI for writing or summarizing, push yourself one step further. Try having it analyze data. Or build a simple app. Or automate a workflow.
The tools keep getting easier to use. Anthropic just released Claude Cowork — which is basically the capabilities of Claude Code (their developer tool) but with a visual interface that doesn't require you to touch a terminal. It costs $20/month on the Pro plan and is currently available on Mac desktop app.
I have recorded a tutorial about Cowork’s use-cases I am experimenting with. You can check it out here on my Youtube channel.
Where my head is at right now
I'm going to keep coming back to this topic because I think the acceleration gap is one of the most important things happening right now.
We're on the edge of something really significant. A few months ago, AI was a chatbot you asked questions. Now AI agents are doing real work, coordinating with each other, and running autonomously while you sleep.
Where you end up depends a lot on what you do in the next 6-12 months. And I don't say that lightly.
So please, don't wait for permission.
Don't wait for your company to give you a training day. Don't wait until it's "easier" or the tools get “better.“
Start messy, confused, be frustrated with it but just start.
Until next week,
Your AI Solopreneur Bestie,
Elena
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