By November, there was a large cohort of technically-minded people who had figured out how to use coding agents, and they were prime candidates for something bigger. Originally released as a weekend project named ClawdBot, OpenClaw is a desktop agent with powerful abilities to work with websites, data, software, and communications, with added integrations on Apple Mac computers. Because of that and other benefits, the humble Mac mini has become the weapon of choice for techies to run their coding and desktop agents, using the LLMs as the foundation.
