Are AI Agents Worth It?

I have been watching a lot of videos this week around AI agents and what people are doing with them. I never jump on anything when it is in the middle of a hype cycle and prefer to let the dust settle before looking into things. Otherwise, you can end up wasting a lot of time on things that aren't worth it. OpenClaw rose to fame when it was released a few months ago becoming the most starred repository on GitHub. It currently has 363k stars, even React only has 245k stars. It made headlines but not always for the best reasons, from their skills containing malware to agents going rouge and writing disparaging blog posts or achieving "inbox zero" in the fastest way possible. Apparently things have got better since the creator of OpenClaw, Peter Steinberger got acqui-hired by OpenAI. ClawHub the skills database now has security scans on all the skills and there have been several security vulnerabilities that have now been patched. There are however still a lot of complaints from users on…