I was blown away by OpenClaw until I saw the bill. Ultimately, I think of these ecosystems as personal enhancements and AI costs need to come down dramatically for real problem. Worse, however, is the security theater. I would not want to be the operator for any business built with front-line LLM usage based on a yolo'd agent framework. I'm very happy to use these for silo'd components that are well isolated and have reasonable QA processes (and that can even included agents since now we literally have no excuse to not have amazing test coverage).

Their niche is going to be back office support, but even that creates risk boundaries that can be insurmountable. A friend of mine had a agent do sudo rm -rf ... wtf.

My view is that I want to launch an agent based service, but I'm building a statically typed ecosystem to do so with bounds and extreme limits.

Look at AI like what search turned into: feed the user anything, even if wrong because not doing so will make your product look weak.

Thats what youll find when you try to make these bag-o-words do reasonable things.