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Tech Twitter melted down this weekend over 'ClawdBot'. It reminds me of November 2022.

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Felix Ghauri

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ClawdBot and the shift to AI as Labour

Tech Twitter melted down this weekend over ‘ClawdBot’. It is rare to see this level of energy for a GitHub repository.

It reminds me of November 2022.

The immediate assumption is that we are seeing a jump in model intelligence.

But I don’t think that’s it. The models underneath (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, etc.) are the same ones we had on Friday.

The breakthrough is friction collapse.

We are watching the shift from ‘AI as a Tool’ to ‘AI as Labour’.

Until now, coding with AI meant you were the driver. You wrote the prompt, you copied the code, you pasted it into VS Code, you fixed the error, you re-prompted. You were the integration layer.

Agentic workflows like this remove the human from the tight loop. You state the intent (“Fix the login page styling”), and the system plans, executes, verifies, and iterates.

It turns a 10-minute task of intense focus into a 30-second task of supervision.

This isn’t about AGI. It’s about UX. And UX is what changes the world.

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Felix Ghauri

Applied AI Practitioner · Founder, Futures Forum

Felix helps organisations navigate AI and exponential change. He writes about technology, geopolitics, and the future of work.

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