Just like the original OpenAI story, this seems like a case of reputation hacking through asymmetry in risk tolerance.

There is not much novel about OpenClaw. Anybody could have thought of this or done it. The reason people have not released an agent that would run by itself, edit its own code and be exposed to the internet is not that it's hard or novel - it's because it is an utterly reckless thing to do. No responsible corporate entity could afford to do it. So we needed someone with little enough to lose, enough skill and willing to be reckless enough to do it and release it openly to let everyone else absorb the risk.

I think he's smart to jump on the job opportunity here because it may well turn out that this goes south in a big way very fast.

I think it's at the final stage of software pump and dump [1]. OpenAI is probably hiring more for the reputation/marketing, rather than for any technical skills behind OpenClaw.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46776848

> Anybody could have thought of this or done it

To be fair, when used in retrospect, this applies to just about any big tech company