I let a viral AI agent take over my PC — and now I see why apps are dying

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I spend most of my days testing AI tools and trying to push them to their limits. While many have unique features, most still feel like variations of the same chatbot experience.

However, while testing OpenClaw — the viral open-source AI agent created by developer Peter Steinberger before he was hired by OpenAI — I couldn’t shake the feeling that this was something fundamentally different.