Comment by aerhardt

A question I've been asking myself and which I honestly want to put out there - and I apologize in advance, because you will see me repeat it in other threads, out of genuine curiosity:

Does your life have so much friction that you need a digital agent to act on your behalf?

Some of the use cases I saw on the OpenClaw website, like "checking me into a flight", are non-issues for me.

I work in business automation, but paradoxically I don't think too much about annoyances in my private life. Everything feels rather frictionless.

In business, I see opportunities to solve friction and that's how I make money, but even then, often there are barriers that are very hard to surmount:

(a) problems are complex to solve and require complex solutions such as deterministic or ML systems that LLMs are not even close to being able to create ad-hoc

(b) entrenched processes and incumbent organizations create moats that are hard to cross (ex: LinkedIn makes automation very hard)

(c) some degree of friction, in some cases, may actually be useful!

I imagine there are similar dynamics in the consumer space, but more than anything, I may not be seeing issues with such a critical eye (I like to relax after work, after all)

So, do you have problems in your private life that you'd want to take on the risks - and friction - of maintaining these agents?