OpenClaw and the Dream of Free Labour | entropytown

It is tempting to describe OpenClaw as a breakthrough in autonomy. That gives it slightly too much credit. The fantasy it sold was not subtle. Give the machine a goal, leave it alone, and return to discover that it has not merely completed a task but conducted a small campaign on your behalf. In the most vulgar version, the goal is simply to make money. So the demo feed fills with the same intoxicating little story: the agent notices a pain point, writes the code, wires up payments, deploys the thing, posts the link and begins, as if by administrative sorcery, to earn while its owner sleeps.