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🛸 So What's Actually Going On Out There?

Look, we've all been watching the autonomous AI agent discourse accelerate at a pace that would make even the most seasoned sysadmin do a double-take at their monitoring dashboard. One minute you're triaging alerts with a coffee in hand, the next — there's a digital entity doing it for you, modifying configs, spinning up workflows, and frankly, acting like it owns the place.

Enter the era of agentic AI. Not your average chatbot that politely suggests a KB article. We're talking systems that can act — executing tasks, accessing tools, and operating across your infrastructure with increasing independence. Tools like OpenClaw are making this very real, very fast.

And here on THWACK? We've got questions. Lots of them.

We want the unfiltered, no-PR-spin, straight-from-the-trenches truth about how you're experiencing autonomous AI agents right now. Whether you're already relying on them daily, quietly experimenting after hours, or firmly in the "I'll believe it when I see it" camp — your perspective matters here.

https://survey.alchemer.com/s3/8764906/THWACK-Poll-Autonomous-AI-Agents

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cnorborg

I'll believe it when I see it. (But hopefully will be retired before then!)

tobyw_loop1

OpenClaw enters the chat 😎

John.Summers

Make sure to fill out the questions and add your THWACK id to claim your THWACK points.

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