Sze Wong predicts the rapid industry-wide replication of autonomous AI agent frameworks by tech giants while debating host Sean Weisbrot.
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Wong: Future startups will sell AI agent teams instead of SaaS
“We're not building, I mean, the analogy I'm using is you're not going to build an accounting software that people sign up for. You're going to build an accounting team that people hire. The AI team is the, is what people will hire in the future.”
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Wong: The window of opportunity for AI agent startups is 18 months
“Today, It's very easy to get Vico into version 0.1, but from 0.1 to one takes a long time. Yes. And yeah, so that's today's, that's where we are today, but that's not going to last long. So this window of opportunity I think lasts about a year, year and a half…”
Disclosure
Wong runs five to six isolated cloud instances of OpenClaw
“Now I have not, I have now, Five, maybe six instances of open cloud installed, but they're all in the cloud, isolated. I give them limited access.”
Insight
Wong: Operators should grant AI agents incremental access like new interns
“You will hire an intern and say, look, I don't know you, your resume set, you're great at whatever, bookkeeping. So here's the book. I won't even give you the entire book, right? This is the invoice of this month. Go put it in, and we'll see how you do work. A…”
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Wong: Software generation with Opus 4.6 is easy, but infrastructure is hard
“With Entropic right now with Opus 4.6, building anything becomes so easy. The difficulty is putting it online and putting safety around it. Putting, making it secure, making it scalable, I mean, those are classic infrastructure thing, which I have to do for no…”
Disclosure
Wong will invest $10,000 in startups building systems using OpenClaw
“I'm going to start a program for anybody who use OpenClaw to, we want people to build startups from using OpenClaw, and we'll put a little bit of money, we'll put 10 K into, I mean, I don't want to say winning team because there is a potential we do more than …”