Agentic AI: rise of the tireless 24/7 employee
Source: Free Malaysia Today
Published on: 2026-04-12 00:13
From Gutenberg to Google to OpenClaw, humanity's most transformative leaps have always been about democratising what was once hoarded by the few. I've toured many manufacturing plants during my years of working in Silicon Valley and Shenzhen. What I saw in one of the Shenzhen plants remains imprinted on my mind. It was frantic with activity, yet almost entirely void of life. Welding robots, assembly robots, CNC machines -- all working around the clock with barely a human in sight. The manager told me this wasn't just the future of manufacturing but the future of most industries. I dismissed it at the time. Factories are one thing. Knowledge work is another. Surely the lawyers, accountants, designers and strategists of the world were safe. That certainty has now evaporated. In November 2025, an Austrian coder named Peter Steinberger quietly uploaded a side project to GitHub, a cloud-b...
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