I quit OpenClaw for this

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Vídeo em Inglês, publicado pelo canal Tech Unicorn.

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Video summary

The video discusses the speaker's transition to a new AI agent tool called Instinct, detailing its capabilities in handling daily tasks, travel, and purchases. The speaker compares it with OpenClaw, outlines different levels of trust and security considerations when using AI agents, and shares personal rules and experiences.

Key points

  • The speaker transitioned from OpenClaw to Instinct, an AI agent that recently received a large valuation and funding.
  • Instinct is described as easy to use and plug-and-play via WhatsApp, handling tasks like booking flights, ordering items, and managing calendars.
  • The video categorizes AI usage into different levels of trust, ranging from basic daily assistant features to granting access to financial accounts.
  • The speaker evaluates security aspects, noting potential risks such as an incident where an AI changed a password via email reset links.
  • Personal rules were established for payment commands to ensure the AI only purchases items when explicitly told to do so.
  • OpenClaw was abandoned due to maintenance issues, speed limitations, and high operational friction compared to Instinct.

Topics

AI agentsInstinct AIOpenClawAI trust levelsTravel automationAI securityProductivity tools

What you will learn

  • The speaker uses a strategy of riding the AI wave by migrating skills and memory from one free tool to the next.
  • Setting explicit language rules with AI agents helps prevent unintended purchases or actions.
  • Evaluating the worst-case scenario and expected value helps determine the appropriate level of trust to place in AI tools.
  • AI agents can streamline personal logistics, such as booking travel, ordering items while sick, and managing daily schedules.

Questions and answers

Why did the speaker switch from OpenClaw to Instinct?

The speaker switched because OpenClaw was not fast enough, hit usage limits, and required constant maintenance compared to Instinct's plug-and-play setup.

What is Instinct's current pricing model according to the video?

Instinct is currently free to use, with the founder's plan to monetize in the future by taking a cut of purchases made through the tool.

What specific rule did the speaker set for making payments with the AI?

The speaker explicitly stated that casual questions like 'can you do this' do not authorize a purchase, requiring specific phrases like 'buy this' or prior confirmation.

Video transcript

Transcript from available captions; it may contain errors.

This AI does everything that my automations  [music] team that I paid $50,000 to   does like right out of the box. I just landed in  Bali and this AI [music] booked my flight, did my   visa arrival card, handled the entire immigration  process for me. I just texted it like a friend.   Tomorrow is my birthday and it's planning me  a birthday surprise. Like it got me a birthday   present and I guess in the next video I'm going  to share with you what it planned for my birthday.   I'm obsessed with this new AI and I have quit  OpenClaw and I travel constantly and it's just   done all of my travel for me. I don't even know if  I need my human team anymore because the pace of   AI agents is just so fast. And today we're going  to talk about the fastest growing one because it   just got a 10 billion valuation and it raised $1  billion. A 23-year-old can build a $10 billion   company. Why can't you at least use the product  to make your life better? Okay, just saying. And   today I'm going to show you how to do just that.  I'm going to walk you through the different levels   of trust that you're not all going to trust AI the  way I trust AI. And I get that. So we're going to   talk about the levels of security and what you  are agreeing to at each level. I'm going to give   you the full reasons on why I switched, what this  costs, and my rules for it that I set it up for   so that I can trust it. And the scariest thing  that I gave it honestly wasn't my passwords,   but we'll talk about that at the end. So first  of all, I was sick last week in Germany. Not only   did it automatically book my train tickets when I  would get on the German train and I told it like,   "Hey, I'm going here. Can you get my ticket?"  Done. I don't speak German. I was sick. It ordered   me drugs to my German hotel and I just like had  them deliver downstairs. I don't know what kind of   app it used. I don't know anything. It just made  a new account for me. So being sick is no longer   a problem. It's insane. I'm doing this thing that  I'm pioneering. It's called riding the AI wave.   But this is how I ride it. Okay. You export your  skills, memory, and everything from OpenClaw or   whatever AI you're using, and then you import  it to the next free tool. This isn't all going   to be free forever. So, you keep riding the wave  of whichever AI tool is free. And right now, this   just got a billion dollar influx of money, and  that means the security is going to be good. Well,   doesn't mean that, but I do think that it's going  to be better than a lot of other AI agents. And it   means that this is going to be a really good tool  to use. So, I just imported all of my open claws,   brain, skills, memory, everything into which thing  are we using? Instinct. I hate that I'm talking   about it like this because it's not sponsored.  I did use Instinct to reach out to Instinct for   partnerships. So, that's kind of funny. So, maybe  in the future it'll be sponsored, but right now,   these are all just my honest raw thoughts. I'm  going to I'm going to talk [ __ ] about it a   little bit as well. So, the way I'm thinking  about it right now is OpenClaw is like Linux.   If you want a lot of customization, you want to  build your own [ __ ] from scratch and you really   care a lot about the the nitty-gritty and the ins  and outs and you're okay with that, use OpenClaw,   okay? And if not, this is like the Apple of  AI agents because it's so easy to use. It's   plugandplay. It's no headache. It's don't even  lift a finger. You don't even have to lift the   finger because you can whisper flow directly  to instinct. And people think I'm schizophrenic   because I do it all the time. But that's okay. I'm  the most efficient person I know. So, let me take   you through all the things I use it for. Starting  with the lowest to the highest level of trust   because the lowest level of trust is like things  you might be comfortable with as a normal person,   but the highest level of trust like damn. I  don't think anyone should be doing it, but   I'm doing it. So, we're going to we're going to  see what happens. Guys, I do not think you should   give all your passwords to AI or your credit  card or whatever. But the reason why I'm able   to accomplish so much with AI agents is because I  have trust in it. Do I trust the company building   it? No, absolutely not. Like I just trust that  these systems are built in such a way that if I   prompt it correctly and I set boundaries and and  rules and guard rails like in me speaking to it   that it's not going to do anything too crazy that  I don't want it to do. So obviously do with this   as you will. I trust myself to talk to the agent  in a way that I know it won't do anything I don't   want it to do. So the the first level of using  it without any trust is still quite useful but   it's like you might as well just use chat at that  point. The second level is giving it access to   your notion, your calendar, emails and obviously  I already do that in Claude and Chad GBT as well,   but it is much more convenient talking through  WhatsApp about it. So I have a daily standup   with my instinct where it tells me all of my  to-dos for my emails, my calendar for the day.   um like you know it's basically my assistant. So  quick thing about email or Gmail specifically.   I'm just fact-checking this because any public app  that reads your Gmail has to pass Google's review   or you get a big scary red flag and I didn't get  that. And if your mail goes through its servers,   it needs a security assessment every year. So that  part I can't look. I'm I'm just saying Google does   review this stuff. It's not that sketchy. Okay.  So Instincts founder says there's protection   and anything it reads goes through firewalls.  A separate system checks every action. He's   also said security teams battle tested the  system that catches its hallucinations.   He didn't name them and I couldn't find any  published results, but apparently it's secure.   So that's what level two trust is. Now level  three, level three level trust is kind of scary   and I was really not going to do this one. Okay, I  only did it because one of my friends that invited   me to Instinct already gave Instinct their their  cards and had everything booked and I was like,   "Okay, I'm kind of tempted to do that." So, my  assistant, my physical human assistant that is   right now somewhere in the States traveling. Uh,  he has one of my cards that's like the single-use   card uh because I trust him enough, you know, that  he's not going to go buy a Hermes bag with it or   something. You actually couldn't do that. It has  a limit, I think, of $1,000. I want to tell you my   thought process because I trust AI way more than  the regular person. But I also trust the universe   and everyone in it a lot more than most people.  So that's always worked out for me. I have a lot   of trust and that brings a lot of opportunities  to me. And the worst case scenario I'm always   comfortable with. So this is how I think about  it. You think about the best case scenario and the   worst case scenario. You have to be comfortable  with the worst case scenario. The worst case   scenario is it books something crazy and I spend  $1,000. But the best case scenario is way better   than $1,000 because every day, you know, I could  be making an extra thousand dollar just from   the things that it's helping me do. So, the best  case scenario is already like the expected value   of using the AI in this way is much higher than  not using it. So, I will use it. That's the logic.   And you just have to make sure you're comfortable  with the worst case scenario. So, obviously,   if you're not comfortable with losing $1,000,  give it a card that has a max limit of $100 or   don't give it a card at all. Um, by the way, you  can also give it a Stripe link where you approve   each purchase. So, you don't have to give it  your card. It can still buy things for you. Now,   what it costs, this is the part of the terms  I should have read first. I read it last. I   do things in the wrong order, so you don't have  to. It says, I appoint it as my agent to make   agreements, commitments, or transactions for  me. And any such agreements are quote binding   on you as if entered into directly by you.  Translation, if it clicked buy, I clicked buy.   It's like sending a friend to the store with your  card basically, right? And remember who's paying   cuz open clock cost money to run on API credits  and heavy use was like something $25 to $50 a day.   I've definitely spent that before. This cost  me nothing. Like this is totally free. Yeah,   they haven't disclosed any revenue. The plan  to monetize this, according to the founder,   is to take a cut of what it buys for you. So, this  is actually the end goal is that this is going to   be a a shopping agent. Yeah, I looked for an audit  or like a security page. Couldn't find one. So,   this is just information that I did from like  deep research. Yeah, some scary incidents that   happened. A VC, Ooh, let's read this one. A  VC posted that it changed her password without   asking, which is kind of scary. So in her own  screenshot, the assistant tells that she said yes   to getting access to her health portal. There was  no saved password, so it clicked forgot password   and the recent link went to her Gmail and it can  read her Gmail. So it sent a new password and   8 minutes later it told her that it changed her  password. But the reset link thing is is fixable.   So Meta says its assistant email connection  filters out login codes and reset links.   So the AI isn't supposed to see them. Instinct  hasn't published anything like that. But   yeah, so let's talk about my rules and the way  I think about this and things I'd want to know   before giving it more information. I explicitly  told it my language for making payments. So for   making payments, I specifically said if I say can  you do this, that doesn't count as you should buy   the thing. Only if I say buy this or like confirm  with me first. So, you really want to explicitly   talk to your AI agents in in general about  language and like when I explicitly say this,   it means buy. When I ask about can you do this,  it doesn't mean buy. So, number one reason I   quit OpenClot is it was just not fast enough to  build the things I wanted to build. Secondly,   I would hit my limits. So, I couldn't even use  my Claude plan anymore. As you all know, that got   banned. But then I used my codeex plan and I would  hit the limits on that which is annoying. I I am a   I'm a heavy user super user over here as you  may know but that's no good and thirdly the   maintenance there everything like keeps breaking  and you have to repair it and you have to log into   your VM and repair it every time when things  break on this I just text my WhatsApp okay so   this is why I quit openclaw now would I go back  to openclaw absolutely not with openclaw I was my   maintenance guy I was the security team I mean  now that I don't have my automations guy I have   to do everything and so no if this works for me  I'm going to keep using this when This is paid.   I'm going to pay for it because it's just so worth  it to have a more carefree life. I personally love   it. Some of you that don't use AI agents, you're  going to be like, "Oh, that's too much. You can't   even make your own decisions." No, I can't make my  own decisions. Okay, Amanda, I like my AI making   my decisions because I know like my higher self  knows the things I want to accomplish. Okay. So,   I always was thinking, why is there such a lag,  such a barrier between what I want in my head   and what I can materialize in life? Not only when  I'm like booking appointments, creating apps,   or anything that I want to materialize in the  world, but there's just so much unnecessary   in the middle like bureaucracy, interfaces,  communications, different apps, different   everything. AI agents are the future because they  remove all of that. I can literally go almost   nurling brain ideiation to creation instantly  and that's what I want. Like I am on the planet   to create and if AI agents are allowing me to  create more and just like have my ideas become   into reality faster, that's great. That's what I  want to use it for. Let me know next if you want   to see more unhinged use cases cuz I have some  crazy unhinged I've done. Let me know below what   other videos you want to see. I appreciate you for  watching. I'm going to get way more into YouTube   now that I have AI helping me. I'm going to get to  100K in 6 months. Okay, that's my goal. I think I   will reach that goal because AI is on my side. So,  uh, come back in six months and see if I did it or   stay tuned for the next video. Yeah, I love  you guys. I will see you in the next one. Bye.

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About OpenClaw and Instinct

OpenClaw is an open-source AI assistant written in TypeScript and released under the MIT license. Wikidata lists Peter Steinberger as its developer and records the earlier names Clawdbot and Moltbot. According to the official README on GitHub, OpenClaw runs on the user's own computer and talks to them in channels such as Discord, iMessage, Slack, Teams, Telegram and WhatsApp, with native apps for macOS, iOS, Android, Windows and Linux. State, memory and credentials stay on the user's hardware, models and agent harnesses (Claude, Codex or local models) are swappable plugins, and the project is stewarded by the OpenClaw Foundation, an independent 501(c)(3) with no paid tier, hosted service or token.

Instinct, the assistant the video switches to, is described on its official site as an AI personal assistant without an app interface of its own: the user texts or calls it, and it can use a phone and a computer the same way a person does. The site gives examples such as ordering ingredients for a recipe, booking a train trip, ordering groceries, sending flowers and finding a sports court.

Fact sheet

  • OpenClaw – type: Open-source autonomous AI assistant
  • OpenClaw – developer: Peter Steinberger
  • OpenClaw – earlier names: Clawdbot, Moltbot
  • OpenClaw – language and license: TypeScript, MIT
  • OpenClaw – steward: OpenClaw Foundation (501(c)(3))
  • Instinct – type: AI personal assistant used by text message and phone call
  • Instinct – official site: instinct.com

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Sources and references: GitHub – openclaw/openclaw (README) · Wikidata – OpenClaw (Q137916205) · Instinct – official site · video by the Tech Unicorn channel on YouTube.

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