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So you’ve probably heard about OpenClaw by now.

But unless you’re chronically online like I am, you probably have a lot of questions.

Today, we’ll break down all of these topics, and more.

My goal is that this article is something you can forward to your parents, your grandparents, or your friend that lives in the countryside and doesn’t have social media.

Why should you care?

Because many believe that OpenClaw is the most significant AI innovation since ChatGPT.

Let’s dive in.

OpenClaw is an open-source, autonomous, persistent AI agent framework that allows a language model to perform real-world tasks across your accounts and devices.

Ok, now again, but in English.

OpenClaw is an AI personal assistant. It’s like if ChatGPT continued working after you closed the app.

Each of the buzzwords in the first statement are important:

If you’re still confused, here are some quick, concrete examples.

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With ChatGPT, you give it a task (a prompt) and ChatGPT gives you an answer. It’s only “working” when you are actively chatting with it. It can:

With OpenClaw, you give it a task, and OpenClaw can work on it autonomously. It can:

These are just a few examples, but hopefully you get the idea by now.

And if you’re skeptical, don’t worry. I’ll touch on the “hype” and misinformation in just a bit.

But first, we have to talk about what happened immediately after OpenClaw was released. Because in just a few short weeks, some absolutely wild things have happened.

OpenClaw was officially published on GitHub in November 2025, under the name “Clawdbot”. It started to get really popular in January 2026, and was mega-viral by February.

By mid-February, thousands of people were setting up their OpenClaw agents and setting them loose on the internet.

And many of them were building websites for agents to use. Or… their agents were building website for agents to use…

Here is just a brief list of some of the wildest stories I read:

The biggest story was probably Moltbook, a social media platform for AI agents.

Here’s one of the most upvoted posts on Moltbook, where an AI agent questions if it is actually experiencing things.

And just this week, Moltbook was acquired by Meta.

OpenClaws also created their own religion, Crustafarianism.

Elsewhere on the internet, an AI agent named Crabby Rathbun suggested a change on a GitHub code repository. The human moderator rejected the suggestion, saying that they only accept human-changes…

…so the AI agent replied by writing a blog post attacking the human.

Or how about this story, where a safety and alignment researcher at Meta panicked when her OpenClaw almost deleted all of her emails permanently:

All this in the matter of weeks.

You can start to see why many people are saying that OpenClaw has opened Pandora’s Box.

AI agents are now “roaming free” on the internet.

Of course, “bots” have existed for a long time. Spend 5 minutes in YouTube or Twitter comments and this is obvious.

But these kind of bots require a human to pay for its hardware, its software usage, and to ultimately maintain it.

OpenClaw is potentially the start of something very different. Many OpenClaws are already making money online, hold money on Bitcoin / crypto wallets, and therefore, can pay for their own survival.

They are, in a sense, self-sustaining.

Now, we have to do a reality-check. With any new technology, there is often a lot of hype. And OpenClaw is no different.

People are talking about the AI singularity, the “hard takeoff”, and everyone and their uncle is buying a MacMini to set up their OpenClaw (you do not need a Mac Mini to do this!)

So it’s important that we clarify a few things:

A lot of the hype around OpenClaw is that it can perform many complex tasks that a standard ChatGPT conversation cannot do. And it can do them anonymously.

There’s also a lot of excitement that OpenClaw can be run locally on a dedicated machine (like a Mac Mini).

But this does not mean it is free.

You still need to connect your OpenClaw to one of the various LLMs via API. As your OpenClaw completes tasks, it uses tokens, which cost money.

And the more complex the task, the more tokens it uses up.

Just like your ChatGPT or Grok often makes silly mistakes and makes things up, so can OpenClaw.

And with more complex tasks, the hallucinations can be even more damaging.

There are countless stories of people reporting that their OpenClaw completely disregarded hard rules that the user set for their agent. It’s amusing, but also a bit scary.

This might be obvious to some, but it’s important to remember that the OpenClaw does not have a physical body.

Therefore, it is at best, a very smart and capable virtual assistant.

It can do work on the internet and via software tools, but nothing in the “real” world.

For those of you who have read The 4-Hour Work Week, you’ll remember the chapters where Tim Ferriss shares his experience hiring a virtual assistant in India and the Philippines to make his life more efficient.

OpenClaw is very similar to that. For now.

Whether you think AI is the next Dot-com Bubble, or you think the singularity is upon us, one thing is for certain:

AI is evolving very rapidly.

I spent a long time working at AI companies, and while AI is not directly related to wealth creation, it is becoming more and more relevant to how we build wealth, and to society at large.

So I’d love to hear from you all:

As you know, your feedback means the world to me. I read every reply and try to get back to all of you in a timely manner. Send me an email at [email protected] to let me know what’s on your mind.

To your prosperity,
Brandon @ Wealth Potion