Persistent AI agents are contractors, not SaaS: OpenAI shares fleet management practices
AccBalanced · x · 2026-11-13
kevins8 argues that deploying persistent agents like OpenClaw or OpenAI's Dots is nothing like installing SaaS: agents keep running after the chat closes, hold their own browser sessions, and touch your repos and credentials on schedules nobody watches — "agents are more like contractors than software, and enterprise IT has no concept of a contractor that never clocks out."
OpenAI is sharing best practices for managing fleets of claws. Existing infra like OpenClaw Enterprise (backed by OpenAI, Red Hat, Nvidia) covers multi-tenancy and lifecycle governance, but running Claude Code next to Codex next to Goose on the same task raises coordination questions beyond authorization. The open-source Campfire platform for collaborative AI coding agents accompanies the discussion.
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