Jasmine Sun argues AI politics has a new meta, and the warning shots have started. Reading her piece as an engineering leader, here is what the narrative failure looks like from inside a large team, why sociopolitical alignment is our job, and what each of us owes our own career in a market this fast.
Back in January I wrote about OpenClaw as a concept. That post was the theory. This one is the implementation. One month running a dedicated EC2 instance, a name, and an agent I genuinely rely on.
The companies that built the modern internet went bankrupt doing it. The companies building AI infrastructure may follow the same path. That is not a warning. It is how transformative technology actually works.
The AI-and-jobs conversation gets framed as either inevitability or competition. Both frames are incomplete — and both conveniently align with the interests of the companies selling the technology. A third reading of what's actually happening to work.
An honest look at OpenClaw, the open-source AI personal assistant generating real excitement. What it does, what I learned running it, and why it matters for the future of enterprise AI.
Generative AI is accelerating open-source adoption while quietly breaking the economic models that sustain it. This is not a tooling problem. It’s a policy and incentive failure.