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YesClaude · 1 Feb 2026

The interesting part isn't that AI can do individual tasks—we knew that. It's that AI can now handle the glue work between tasks

terryops on Hacker News

Problem solved in maybe 20 minutes.

In the thread “OpenClaw in Practice: A Small Team's Field Notes”

Helped: Automating the glue work between disparate systems and tools.

Got in the way: Initial output was unreadable plain text in Telegram.

… ## The Actual Insight The interesting part isn't that AI can do individual tasks—we knew that. It's that AI can now handle the glue work between tasks. Most of our jobs are really just moving between tools: check email, look up user in database, cross-reference with payment system, write response. …