At least 70% of things I read about people doing with "AI" assistants like "Open Claw" are basically things people have been doing with deterministic, secure tools like Home Assistant for years.

Oh you can tell your bot to dim the lights via WhatsApp chat? Welcome to 2015!

@tante They want it to feel like a personal secretary who can't say no, not like a CLI. That's the whole appeal to them.

@dalias @tante

I think a better term may be "latent human desire for slavery"

@downey I don't know that it's so universal as that. It does seem to be mostly other white people who are enthusiastic about AI in this particular way.