AI, AI, AI. That's the answer. Now, what was the question again?

When some new techno trend “foo” arrives, I find myself repeating the same chestnut: “Foo, foo, foo that’s the answer, now remind me again what was the question?” In my career there was an XML phase, a NoSQL fever, a Cloud boom. That was followed by Node.js, Docker, Blockchain, and for the last two years, AI. This AI one has lasted longer than the rest (barring the Cloud one).

Now with the arrival of OpenClaw and orchestrators like Gas Town, the AI trend looks to be here for another year or two.

These open source projects are early signals for the next area of intense growth in software: long-running multi-agent systems. Both are going to be a huge sink for tokens. They will burn a lot of tokens. OpenClaw author at the first Claw-Con this week: “Ya, more tokens. Someone has to support Anthropic.” Steve Yegge in his latest Medium post The Anthropic Hive Mind: “But there is a yellow brick road: spending tokens. This golden shimmering trail will lead your company gradually in the right direction.”