@art_codesmith @tante lol he’s so proud of his agent, and then his story amounts to “I told the AI to do something. It couldn’t and didn’t have any idea how to proceed. So I told it to do a different thing first. And it did that, all on its own, no prompting from me! Then it did the first thing I told it to do. With no direction at all!”
Like awww it’s almost sweet that you don’t know what prompting and direction are, David! Truly groundbreaking.
Hi Erin! Laughing at a screenshot of David’s 'aha!' moment feels cheap. We’ve all been 'David' at some point. Let that guy learn.
@tante If the people doing that would understand security they would be very upset.
I'm not worried about the competent people, I'm worried about the majority that doesn't even consider why giving access is a bad idea.
@tante I agree BUT even if you run it on a Mac Mini or VPS or whatever without giving it your own data or accounts, it can still go and bother other internet users, for example by emailing them, sending spurious Github pull requests, making phone calls (!), the recent case of one making a hostile blog post about a named person, and so on.
Even if you make it not a danger to you, it remains a danger to others.
@tante Unfit… or “security expert at Meta” 😂
“Meaningful system” here, includes a network.
@tante Here's the corporate vice president of Microsoft Word running #OpenClaw to organize his family tasks and comms: https://www.omarknows.ai/p/meet-lobster-my-personal-ai-assistant
Don't worry, I'm sure no malicious actors will ever target his setup to compromise #Microsoft network. I mean, they'll only have access to all info and location of his loved ones. Surely there's zero monetary value in that...
@tante OMFG. He has now connected #OpenClaw to his smart home AND published a full playbook of his setup:
https://lobster.shahine.com/
A senior leader at Microsoft basically gave the keys to his front door to autonomous GenAI agents.
@patrick_h_lauke @jukkan @tante come on at least he has multiple agents to isolate environments or something. That’s almost professional.
(I am kidding of course)
I think the most diplomatic take I can get behind is: „If you are reading a tutorial about how to set OpenClaw up: This is out of your league, keep your hands off.“
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@dalias/116120279416031775
@hiiaminfi @patrick_h_lauke @jukkan @tante See this thread and many others like it.
@patrick_h_lauke @jukkan @tante You mean: Daddy/Mommy issues are the driver of this AI bubble?
If they had had someone in their childhood telling them they did a good job we could have saved the world from climate change and wild capitalism?
@jukkan " → Catch-all binding
→ Route to: lobster agent
→ Apply: No sandbox, full access "
HAHA!
@tante Good news everyone! The senior leader at Microsoft who wired OpenClaw to run his home and family tasks, including vibe-coding a smart home integration and publishing a full blueprint of his own setup, has been promoted!🥳
Omar Shahine will now lead a new team that helps OpenClaw better expose Microsoft 365 data to the entire world.🙈

TL;DR: New Job at Microsoft. Bringing OpenClaw + personal agents to Microsoft 365! I’m excited to share that I’m starting a new role at Microsoft, leading a team building personal assistants for Microsoft 365 customers. My goal is to help usher in a new generation of proactive assistants, ones that lighten your load by taking on tasks end-to-end, and that can also step in proactively when they can help. As part of this mission, I’ll be partnering with the OpenClaw + M365 community to bring the energy of this work to our customers. We’ve already hit the ground running with a fully integrated Teams plugin for OpenClaw, and I can’t wait to help usher in the era of personal agents at work. On a personal note, leaving the Word team is genuinely bittersweet. Thank you for trusting me, pushing me, and teaching me so much, your craftsmanship, care for customers, and high standards are what make Word enduring. I’ll be cheering you on from my new seat, and I hope we keep building together as the next chapter of Word, and Office, evolves toward an agentic future. Thanks Charles Lamanna for believing in this opportunity, and Sumit Chauhan for providing me the opportunity of a lifetime to lead Word for the past 3 years. 🦞-Omar | 108 comments on LinkedIn