For openclaw to become helpful, you have to connect it to your personal email, access to your file etc. All of these requires user's manual setup right?. I do not get the point of "batteries included". Installing it is not the bottleneck right? The official docs has detail procedures for all deployment options.

Right, whether it runs in a sandbox is the least of my concerns if the point is to give that sandbox a way to spend or communicate in my name.

Good try. I had the idea before, but later realized all the agent ecosystem has already highly coupled with bash scripts including skills. Though bash is not a good programming language, it's indeed flexible for CLI apps. I also realized that what agent and skills really need is just a glue language, not a real programming language, so bash is not so bad in the case.

Working on a Vibe Testing Agent (https://www.vita-ai.net/), a perfect companion of vibe coding. Now the loop is vibe coding <-> vibe testing.

Exciting to see Anthropic validate the "AI coworker" direction. We're building VITA AI (https://vita-ai.net) with similar philosophy but for enterprise QA testing.

One key architectural difference: Cowork runs sandboxed VMs on your local macOS machine, but we run sandboxes entirely in the cloud. This means:

- True isolation - agents never touch your local files or network, addressing the security concerns raised in this thread

- Actual autonomy - close your laptop, agent keeps working. Like delegating to a real coworker, not pairing with an assistant

- Scale - spin up 10 test agents without melting your CPU

The trade-off is latency and offline capability, but for testing workflows (our focus), asynchronous cloud execution is actually the desired model. You assign "test the checkout flow," go to lunch, come back to a full test report + artifacts.

Different use cases, different architectures. But the broader trend feels right - moving from conversational assistants to autonomous agents that operate independently.

Working on an AI coworker (QA engineer) that can autonomously tests web app like your human QA colleagues. It has its own virtual desktop and runs as background agent.

https://www.vita-ai.net/

This is really cool! Are you open to providing my team with a demo?

Sure. Join the waitlist below and I will note down that you need private demo. I will contact you once we got bandwidth on that (private demo).

https://www.vita-ai.net/waitlist

Thanks! Voice input and AI assisted notes really save me. Whenever I have some spark, I just talk to AI and ask it to transform my thoughts into notes.

>A bow is more powerful than a stick but also develops more motor skills, a bike develops the users body more than a car, and so on.

Totally agree. I like bike much more than car, however the trend of bike superseded by car cannot be reversed, given car's convenience and power.

IMO if we cannot reverse it, then embrace it. It applies to other tech advancement as well.

The decline of deep thinking in the digital age is a pressing concern. While technology presents challenges to our cognitive faculties, it also offers unprecedented opportunities. By leveraging AI as a cognitive partner, we can counteract the negative effects of constant connectivity and revive our capacity for deep, meaningful thought.

Thanks for the advice. Since the conversation itself is long, integrating it into the blog would dilute the article. I will try to make the link more accessible, and add a TL;DR section.