Hey I'm really impressed and hoping to connect. I followed you on X just now, is that a decent place to shoot you a DM? I don't want anything from you, we just seem to be working on similar things (I'm working on our internal agent harness here, at a healthcare startup).
it's a venture backed software + services company. the things we use openclaw for are not specific to what our company does. It's literally being used as an additional employee(s). Think about what people do -> OpenClaw does a subset of those things. Emailing, pulling data our of our platform to putting them into PDFs because a customer requested it, updating things in our CRM, answering support tickets, internal help desk type work... "how does so and so feature work in xyz edge case"... etc etc etc.
Yes, at our company we are using it very extensively. I genuinely believe we're near the forefront of usage. We have multiple isolated OpenClaw instances serving as employee within Slack.
How does Codex / Claude Code compare to working within Cursor with the chat and agents? Are they effectively the same thing?
Is one significantly better than the other. Please share your experiences around this I’m trying to be ass effective of an engineer as I can be at our company. - Mike
moomooskycow, thanks for such a thoughtful response. I've read it and re-read it.
The vast majority the last decade has been solopreneuring. I've had a stint at larger companies, but usually as a consultant.
It's likely immature of me, but I gravitate strongly towards "meritocracy" and the simplest purest form of that - for me - has been to work almost entirely alone. And I am acutely aware of all the things I'm giving up in an idealized situation: working alongside great people who are smarter and more passionate than me, cool benefits, money, etc.
I deeply believe that I'd be incredibly valuable to the right company, for the right job, and that the salary and social benefits and such could change my life and lives of my family (and future family!).
But, I've failed as far as finding that just right job.
Here is immature Mike's train of thought regarding this, perhaps someone else can relate?:
"I don't want to go do the thing that so many of my peers have done: get a job at a largish tech company, work super hard for 6 months and then fade into a passive state of not really doing anything besides fielding slack notifications and collecting large pay checks. Idk it just feels so lame. It feels immoral. But those people seem to be killing it, they have the money and their girlfriends feel secure and stable, they have friends and get sent on cool business trips. Maybe I'm the one who has it all wrong, and I'm going to slowly age into irrelevance with nothing but my misplaced pride...etc etc etc"
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All that to say, perhaps it's fear of rejection that is keeping me from reaching out and finding that "just-right" job that leverages my "economically valuable" skills.
Your words have struck a chord, and I will make the aforementioned serious effort towards finding a compromise between earnings and outlets.
Ted, Thanks! Come to think of if, something along the lines of bartending or waiting tables does check both the [x] physical and [x] social boxes! Good idea!