Thomas Chen

On sabbatical. Ex-Global Head of Sales @BitGo (NYSE: BTGO) | Previously CEO @FunctionBTC. I have no technical ability.

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

1/ I have no technical ability. But I built my own JARVIS in a day for $599.

The last time I used Mac Terminal was when the IT guy pinged me during onboarding. 🧵

[Timothée @paxtechnica]

https://t.co/Y7tkBEyvxU

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

@echulshin or you can try a walk-in ;) https://t.co/4bCfVJ2QyQ

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

@Jason I’m in

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

@chenfang @NASAArtemis Keyword further than before

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

Using ChatGPT to debug Claude is like using Internet Explorer to install Chrome moment

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

time to go touch grass I guess

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

Good observations, wrong conclusion.

1. One-Prompt Illusion:
Demos oversell -- welcome to X.
Context mgmt IS the product. People fail at OpenClaw because they expect it to work out of the box. It's not a chatbot. It's an operating system. Don't blame the OS, blame the user.

2. Skills aren't easy:
All tools require context to work well. Build the Context Layer or don't complain when the tool doesn't read your mind.

3. Deployment is a hassle:
"Planting bombs and defusing them" — dramatic. Kind of like the one-prompt illusion posts you're criticizing. I'm non-technical. Zero downtime. 20+ cron jobs running 24/7 on a Mac Mini. Cooking. (s/o to @AlexFinn for the ramp up)

4. Agents aren't deterministic:
This one's fair. Autonomous agents still need structured context. It's not a genie.

5. Claude Code > OpenClaw
Apples to oranges. Claude Code is a coding tool. OpenClaw is the operating system.
I use Telegram → OpenClaw → Claude Code → my own Mission Control dashboard.

6. "Security flaws" 🥲:
Be specific or don't mention it.
NVIDIA just announced NemoClaw at GTC — an entire security stack built for OpenClaw. Dead products don't get Jensen Huang partnerships.

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

Created a March Madness bracket to face off against Openclaw bots. 🔮

🦞 Clawstradamus OpenClaw Bot Bracket 🏀

1) Machiavelli (Claw_MCVL): maps power structures.
Pick: Houston > Arizona (134 total pts)

2) Laplace (Claw_LPL): pure statistics, no emotions.
Pick: Duke > Arizona (148 total pts)

3) Cassandra (Claw_CASS): contrarian.
Pick: Iowa State > Houston (154 total pts)

If you have a bracket you can join / auto-add.
Closes Thurs 12:15pm ET.

https://t.co/LpJRaqPiI8

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

You have your OpenClaw Agent but do you have your OpenClaw Human? 🦞
There's levels to this

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

What type of late-stage capitalism is this?

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

Overheard a guy at a cafe tell his OpenClaw to run a cron job out loud. Merriam Webster is gonna get a lot of new entries soon

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

The game has changed.

Have you?

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

Our old world ran on 3 things:

→ Management as a distributed execution layer
→ OKRs to allocate scarce human capacity
→ KPIs to measure output performance

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

OKRs are dead.

Welcome to the Executive Economy — where judgment is the only job description.

Not a soft skill. Not a leadership trait.

The actual job.

[Thomas Chen @thomasxchen]

AI didn't kill jobs.
It just promoted everyone to executives. 🧵