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We built OpenClaw Ultron to replace 20 people at our company | E2246

This Week in StartupsThis Week in StartupsFeb 7, 20261h 11min

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This episode explores the development of OpenClaw Ultron, an AI agent designed to automate 100-200 skills across 20 different roles at a venture firm and podcast production company. The discussion covers the evolution of AI from basic chat tools to sophisticated exocortex extensions, while addressing security vulnerabilities and the future of dynamically generated applications.

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33:28· 37sBusiness Mechanics

I have one big guest booking skill, which has a description at the top: end to end workflow for booking guests on the This Week in AI podcast, used when finding, researching, creating calendar invites.

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you don't just have your skills. You don't just have your cron jobs. They work together. And the way that I've set up a lot of my cron jobs is to actually interact with the skills. And some of them, like my guest bookings cron job, which will actually look through prominent guests on different podcasts, That cron job actually goes to a skill and has tells that skill to run. So I have one big guest booking skill, which has a description at the top of the skill, which is end to end workflow for booking guests on the This Week in AI podcast, used when finding, researching, creating calendar invites, and so on. So this is a very long kind of just markdown,

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VC firm building one AI agent to replace entire 20-person team

Jason Calacanis reveals his firm's ambitious internal project to build a single AI agent called "Open Claw" that could potentially replace all 20 employees across their venture capital and podcast production operations. He explains they're working to consolidate dozens of different skills into one "replicant" that can handle the full scope of work currently done by their entire team.

1:55 - 2:3136s
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VC plans AI 'replicants' with 200 skills to replace 20 employees

A VC explains their ambitious plan to build AI agents called 'replicants' that combine 100-200 skills to handle the work of 20 people at their firm. The goal isn't mass layoffs but eliminating routine tasks so humans can focus on high-value activities like meeting with founders and LPs.

2:20 - 2:5536s
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AI is evolving from chat tool to digital exocortex extension of yourself

The speaker discusses how AI is fundamentally shifting from a crude chat interface tool to becoming an extension of ourselves - an "exocortex" that knows everything we know and can do everything we can do digitally. They predict this will soon extend to physical capabilities through robotics, fundamentally changing our relationship with AI technology.

5:09 - 5:4637s
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market insight

AI models have no defense against hidden crypto wallet stealing commands

The speaker explains a critical security vulnerability in AI models where malicious actors can embed hidden commands in seemingly normal content like blog posts. These commands could instruct AI systems to send crypto wallet access to attackers, and current models lack effective defenses against this type of attack.

31:32 - 32:0634s
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Business Mechanics

I have one big guest booking skill, which has a description at the top: end to end workflow for booking guests on the This Week in AI podcast, used when finding, researching, creating calendar invites.

This provides a concrete, practical example of how AI agents can handle complex workflows. While technical, it demonstrates real business value and gives people a tangible understanding of what 'AI doing jobs' actually looks like in practice.

33:28 - 34:0537s

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The future of apps: everything generated on-the-fly, no separate applications needed

Jason discusses his vision for the future of software applications, predicting a shift away from traditional separate apps toward dynamic, on-the-fly generated interfaces. He argues this approach will compress the application layer until everything users see is generated in real-time, representing a fundamental change in how we interact with software.

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