The nice thing about Agent Vault is the encryption of credentials and other ways they handle making sure those don't leak from storage. I suppose you could potentially wrap the two in layers as well (agent -> Claw Patrol -> Agent Vault -> external network)

EDIT: looking at some of the comments, it sounds like Claw Patrol can work with protocols beyond HTTP/S, so potentially covers more surface area than AV

As I read through your comments, one question popped into my head: what’s your thoughts about the Friedman doctrine? Do you address it in your book?

Specifically, the Friedman doctrine makes the argument that the social responsibility of the firm is to increase its profits. That policy making should be left to governments.

Milton Friedman states in his essay:

Insofar as [a business executive's] actions in accord with his "social responsibility" reduce returns to stockholders, he is spending their money. Insofar as his actions raise the price to customers, he is spending the customers' money. Insofar as his actions lower the wages of some employees, he is spending their money.

His theory was introduced in 1970 and it seems has since become the standard for the corporate world

How does this square with what you present in your book? Do you disagree with his theory?

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Not even a teeny weeny bit of spying on your allies?

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That said, this is the ultimate moat. Once everything about how to operate a business lives in your product, the business must rely heavily on it. I personally would only use something like this if I knew it was open source and that data could live on my own servers. If agents and my own team are consulting Hyper for things and you go out of business or move upmarket or something, it's pretty much back to the stone age for us.

Very useful idea though with a lot of potential, especially for companies like OpenAI and Anthropic looking for a moat!

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I think Columbia’s OutDry Extreme tech is essentially the same thing with the membrane on the outside, which they claim is toughened to withstand abrasion, so maybe holds up better than ShakeDry:

https://www.columbia.com/meet-outdry-extreme.html

I haven’t tried it myself but I found it while researching this topic recently

It’s like if every company hired the same guy named Karl. If everyone is relying on Karl, and Karl is making the same stuff for all these businesses, how is one business going to outcompete another?

At that point you need something else to drive differentiation. Branding, strategic partnerships, patents, IP, influencer endorsements, real estate, government licensing, etc. These are either influenced, controlled, or regulated by humans at the end of the day. At the very least you’ll need humans aligning the models for human needs. Humans are the ones being served, they’re the taste makers

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It's getting tiring hearing this alarmist view unchallenged honestly. What if instead of replacing a market, it's augmenting a market?

When it becomes cheaper to produce things, we tend to consume more. That is, our consumption is endless. If one day everyone can afford a yacht because automation has reduced the production cost to next to nothing, we'll all be buying yachts. Then it will become who owns the nicer yacht, the branded limited edition yacht. The goal posts will simply shift.

Meanwhile, businesses still need to compete. If they're all using the same AI models to replace labor, AI is no longer their competitive advantage. It's simply a baseline necessity of production.

There will be pain in the jobs market, yes, as old ways of doing things are replaced by new ways with AI. But humans will continue to be the ones consuming endlessly and businesses will continue to need humans to differentiate. It's a relationship that has survived all other times automation has changed how we work.

Yeah, if you switch to working as an independent contractor, you can work any amount of time you want. If you run your own business, you can work crazy hours or none at all. The world is truly your oyster

I'm not being facetious either. That's exactly what I did, and I got what I asked for

We can all talk about supply and demand here, whether companies should be forced to do X or Y, and how Keynes got his 15 hour work week prediction so wrong, ad nauseam. But if you truly want something beyond the talk, like a more flexible work schedule, there's real ways to get it right now

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I recommend everyone who's making this decision to do something similar as an additional perspective. So many variables will be dependent on location, personal finances, and goals

Now imagine you grew up using AI to make things. Your earliest memories were using AI to make funny songs, cool videos. All your friends and peers use AI to make things. In fact, most everyone uses AI to create anything. It's a fundamental part of everyday life

I doubt anyone who grows up using AI would really even think twice about it. AI is just... how you do it