Every Ditched Personal Agents: Dan Shipper's OpenClaw 'Died' and No One Restarted It
every · x · 2026-10-11
Every's Dan Shipper named his first AI agent (an OpenClaw on a Mac mini) R2-D2 and grew attached to it — but when someone knocked loose the power cord, he never restarted it, because Codex had already taken over its tasks. He expects his current agent, Boo, to meet the same fate within a year: "The personality thing is cool, but in a work context, I mostly care: does it do the thing?"
On this week's The Every Podcast, Shipper talks with platform head Willie Williams about how Every went from everyone running their own OpenClaw to one shared Slack-based company agent (the Every Agent, launched this week, with token costs passed through at no markup), plus an engineer's four-step workflow for finding token waste in your own software.
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