Not because prompting doesn’t matter. It’s because chatbots are the wrong interface.
I can’t stand using them anymore now that I’ve been prompting through OpenClaw. The output is orders of magnitude better.
With chatbots like ChatGPT, Gemini and Claude, each conversation starts from zero. Generic advice that ignores my actual work. Sure they have “memory” — but the memory subsystems just remember your old chats, not what you actually do. They don’t have access to performance data, and they can’t be customized as well as autonomous agents.
Meanwhile, my agent Otis goes through every LinkedIn post I’ve written and knows which ones performed. It parses my newsletters daily for ideas. It knows how to generate Midjourney prompts for images. And it always learns from my feedback.
It keeps running rubrics for each task I ask it to perform. After it does the task, I give it feedback and it updates rubrics. Every time, it’s basically me.
The Actions Are Unreal
- Keep a running list of actionable industry news after reading all my email subscriptions in an Obsidian note
- Draft new posts based on what performs, based on previous interactions or newsletter news
- Auto-generate a Kanban To Do list based on a task I need to do and manage it as I do things
- If I get an email with a request, check my calendar to see if it’s doable, schedule if available, add it to a spreadsheet as a billable item, reply back to the sender
Sorry chatbots, you sort of suck now.
5 Things Different in Agent Design
- Context persistence: Agents remember everything. Chatbots forget after each session with weak memory.
- Deep knowledge integration: Agents trained on YOUR data beyond what’s in the chatbot, not generic internet.
- Autonomous execution: Agents work while you sleep. Chatbots wait for prompts.
- Feedback loops: Agents improve from corrections. Chatbots repeat mistakes.
- Tool orchestration: Autonomous agents connect to your files, APIs, workflows in real time.
The industry noticed and is racing toward autonomous agent systems. That’s why every major lab reportedly called Peter Steinberger to acquire OpenClaw: Satya Nadella, Mark Zuckerberg, Sam Altman all called. OpenAI won.
Just look at the recent “OpenClaw Killer” announcements in the last couple of weeks: Perplexity Computer, MiniMax Agent, Manus Agent, Agent Zero, KimiClaw, NanoClaw — all claiming to beat OpenClaw. (Sorry buds, no dice on this yet… keep working at it though.)
The New Skill
The new skill isn’t crafting the perfect prompt. It’s designing agents that work with YOUR context.
Time to learn Agent Design. Let’s do this.
