🚨 The guy who built Clawbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw just got hired by OpenAI.
Let that sink in for a moment.
This project is one of the biggest security nightmares of recent memory. Every day there are more stories of problems, exploits, vulnerabilities. Yet the project has gone viral in ways that few open source projects do, and people are eating it up.
Meanwhile, I know developers who started similar projects and abandoned them specifically because of the security risks. They made the responsible choice. They understood the implications. They walked away.
But this guy? He’s getting praised. He’s getting hired by one of the most influential AI companies in the world.
đź’” And this isn’t an isolated incident. This is the pattern now.
Popular people, not capable people, are in charge of things they shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near. You become a “top voice” on LinkedIn through engagement metrics, not through useful content. Publish a book (which is damn easy these days with AI) and suddenly you’re an “expert.”
Virality has replaced competence as the currency of credibility.
The person who ships the dangerous thing fast gets rewarded. The person who thinks through the consequences and decides “maybe we shouldn’t” gets passed over. We’ve built a system that incentivizes recklessness and punishes responsibility.
🤔 When did we decide that popularity equals expertise? When did we stop caring about the difference between “can we” and “should we”?
I don’t have answers. But I’m tired of watching this play out over and over — in tech, in government, in every industry. We’re rewarding the wrong people for the wrong reasons, and we’re all going to pay for it eventually.
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I don’t know who the original image belongs to, so I can’t credit it. It looks like it was created by an AI, possibly for a YT thumbnail, but I’m not sure which one. I just took a Google image search result…