Catching "OpenClaw" Anxiety

I know OpenClaw has shown us an unprecedented interaction model — humans chatting in their familiar messaging interface, issuing commands, and AI completing the work. This kind of use case has already penetrated into grassroots government operations, which shows just how strong OpenClaw's cognitive penetration really is.

It can help Shenzhen government agencies save significant manpower — you only need one reviewer to check the work, and everything else can be handled by OpenClaw (or similar frameworks). It saves labor and reduces what used to take much longer down to just minutes. It acts like an assistant that you can simply talk to in your everyday conversations.

But reflecting on my own life, I realize I can't actually find a use case for OpenClaw yet. I quietly installed it on Feishu, added Cursor CLI skills, and occasionally chat with it or vent. Thinking maybe one day I'll just naturally start using it. But honestly, I can't fully trust it yet. When I'm working at my computer, I still instinctively open Cursor to help me with code, event materials, and content.

But I know there are many fragmented tasks in between that could be roughly handed off to OpenClaw — integrating Cursor CLI + skill.md to automate things I've done before.

I don't know what the future holds, and I don't want to stay this anxious. Today I saw a tweet from an A16Z founder saying he spends 1/4 of his time listening to podcasts from the smartest people in the industry, 1/4 chatting with models, 1/4 reading old books, and only 1/4 on information consumption.

Looking at my own time, a big chunk of it falls into the feeds of Xiaohongshu and WeChat. To prevent my anxiety from paralyzing me, I've decided to force myself to shut these channels off and cultivate a healthier, more suitable way of consuming AI information.