> their value is, at least in principle, calculable

I feel this article does not spend enough time investigating the challenges of directly measuring the financial output of an engineering team. I agree it is theoretically possible, but I don't think the full answer is that people got lazy on cheap capital and didn't care enough to measure. I think it would be exceedingly difficult to put a dollar amount on the monthly output of most engineering teams due to the variety of tasks they cover, and the extreme challenge of knowing exactly why your customers are behaving a certain way. If you get 1000 more signups in a month, is that directly attributable to the engineering team's output? If anyone could have been concretely answering that question this whole time, I don't think they would have been ignoring the metrics.

I don't like any of this, but I'm not totally clear how this is substantially different from other fingerprinting technologies which I assume are used by every large tech company. Could anyone elaborate? The post isn't very clear why this is different from other data surveillance.

If other people collect data like that it's probably also illegal.

Cynical take: I didn't need to read to the bottom to know it was useless to track the correlation between drinking alcohol and dancing

Agree, it really depends on the tape for me. Painters tape has quite a nice sound as it's peeled

I really like the doppler effect (?) of the sound as the tape gets longer.

Not the Doppler effect. The tone gets lower, the wavelength increases, with the increasing length of the resonating body.

It feels bizarre to claim that playing guitar for 30 minutes a day has no influence on your life. Surely it brings you joy or satisfaction or keeps your skills up if you're a professional. Why do you do it if there's no influence? Couldn't you use that time for something else?

For fun. But I don't see how it influences/changes my life.

You think having fun has no influence on your life? You think sitting bored in a chair would give you an equivalent life experience?

Mobile users hate when site publishers forget this one simple ~trick~ meta tag.

This is different than a belief system protected by anti discrimination laws

Thousands of PRs a week generated by AI and requiring human review sounds like a ton, I wonder what their PR merge rate was before this?

Stripe has somewhere around 3000-3500 engineers on staff, so it's less than one PR a week spread across the org.

Thanks, I realized after I wrote it that the size of their staff was really the variable I was missing. Agreed that's not a remarkably high rate with such a large engineering org.

What a tired headline, what a tired topic. Can't believe how much joy has been sapped from my life reading about AI

Wait I'm ignorant, how long has OpenClaw/Clawdbot existed? This person listed like 6 months of activities that they offloaded to the bot, I thought this thing was pretty new.

Maybe Clawd wrote this itself, and it just doesn't know how old it is?

FWIW, the screenshots all have the dates spanning the last couple days.

But yeah, I can't imagine me getting used to a new tool to this degree and using it in so many ways in just a week.

That makes it even less believable. They talked about how this tool has replaced some other tools such as flight price trackers. How in the world could that happen in 1 week to such a degree that you wrote a whole blog about it?

OpenClaw utilizes AgentSkills designed by Anthropic so OpenClaw is plug and play with certain APIs and integrations.

AgentSkills were introduced in Oct 2025, so less than four months ago.