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Is an agent running on a desktop, with access to excel, word, email and slack going to replace Saas?

Add in databases, browser use, and the answer could be yes

This could be the most disruptive software we have seen



If it replaces SaaS it will replace you too; how else will you collaborate?


What I want to know: Is the OpenClaw = Open Source aspect secure?


If your SaaS is a CRUD with a shitty UI in React then yes


If the ai model gets better, more and more Saas can be replaced with an agent with an excel sheet


To be fair if you are not going interface with your SaaS via GUI it can be one big API for all I care. I’ll just chat and automate to it anyway.


For people like you: except for the obvious greed, what's the end game?

Are you making anyone's life better? Who will even pay you once most jobs are automated?

At best, it's a defensive move: make money, get hard capital and seek rent after most of society has collapsed?


I don’t know how your rhetoric is any different than saying how scribes find a new job now we invented printing.


In your mind scribes disappearing, probably 0.1% of the population, is the same thing as up to 50% of the population losing their jobs?

Deindustrialization happened 20-40 years ago and the affected regions are still hit hard.

Also, you're making my point. Utterly heartless.


I mean, he's right, it's easier for users when you can throw AI at the thing, instead of manually clicking through the UI.




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