Why We’ll Still Be Employed When AI Can Do Everything

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Launch

Spiral 4.0

Today we’re launching Spiral 4.0, which writes drafts in your voice from idea to line edit. Spiral has a new MCP alongside the existing CLI and API, so any agent or workflow can write in your voice too. For teams, we’ve expanded workspaces, which let you share styles, prompts, knowledge—and now chats and drafts. Finally, Spiral has a new pricing model: We’ve switched from session limits to token limits, so costs match your actual usage rather than how many times you opened a new chat. A vast majority of users will end up paying less: Personal plans now start at $15 a month—down from $25—and team plans are $25 per user, down from $35.

Signal

Enterprise AI product roadmaps are hard

Microsoft is moving fast. Three months after OpenClaw came out in November 2025, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella described it as a “virus”-like security risk. By May, the company’s “Project Lobster” was internally testing “ClawPilot,” an OpenClaw-based desktop environment. This week at the Microsoft Build conference, the company released Scout, a personal agent for work built on OpenClaw. For a company employing 100,000 engineers, this is blindingly fast. Unfortunately, it may already be too late.

OpenClaw search traffic spiked in early January, after everyone had a chance to experiment with Opus 4.5 over the holidays. The sharp rise in interest died down almost as quickly as it took off, helped along in early April by Anthropic ending support for subsidized Max plan usage—thereby forcing everyone to scramble to get OpenClaw working on cheaper models.

This doesn’t mean OpenClaw is dead; the open-source project saw a recent uptick in download and is still under active development, with millions of dollars of patronage from OpenAI, which hired its creator Peter Steinberger. AI agents as a category aren’t dead, either, as traffic has moved to other agents like Hermes, Google has just rolled out Gemini Spark (first announced last month at its I/O developer conference), and Claude and Codex have both adopted more agentic features inspired by OpenClaw.

That said, it must be tough to manage enterprise AI product roadmaps these days. You do everything right, watch the latest trends, pivot your focus to supporting new tools and making them secure in enterprise environments. You move mountains to explain to stakeholders why this is a good idea. You plan the keynote of your big conference, which has to be scheduled months in advance. Then a month after the internal beta (just three months since the tool went viral), you’re already behind the news cycle. Everyone has moved onto the next shiny thing. You go back to the drawing board and think “maybe next time, we’ll just announce it on X.”—Mike Taylor

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