You know, I hate to be that guy, but

Paperclip and other agent frameworks

where you're controlling an autonomous

swarm of 500 CMOs just don't do

anything. It sounds really futuristic

and it sounds incredible, but at the end

of the day it's set up a porn. Have you

seen these threads on X and and LinkedIn

and now YouTube videos where people are

like, "I just set up my Paperclip Hermes

agent maximizer to run my Telegram

topics on Vercel." It's like, first of

all, what the heck are any of these

platforms? And second of all, what have

you actually shipped this week? What

have you actually built? How much money

have you made in the last 30 days by

jerking yourself off with a with an open

claw? That's a good one. The point that

I'm trying to make is it's basically

like organizing markdown files in a

folder and YouTubers like myself, people

on X and LinkedIn and stuff like that,

are all incentivized to make every one

of these new agent frameworks and

developments much bigger than they

actually are. I've tried removing names

and stuff cuz obviously I don't want to

put anybody on the spot, but check out

this fellow. This is the peak

19-year-old experience, he says. You

know, it's 2:10 a.m. I got three clawed

code terminals on the MacBook, setting

up Hermes and Paperclip on the monitor

and whisper flowing Hermes inside of my

Telegram topics. What more could you ask

for? This reads like freaking ancient

Egyptian hieroglyphs to anybody that's

actually making money. What more could I

ask for? How about some MRR, little bro?

Like, come on. What are you doing here

that's actually economically valuable?

Or maybe uh this one here. You know, I

really didn't want to manage the AI

team, so XYZ name redacted found a

solution. Paperclip, the open source

project, which she showed me. Paperclip

leads her agents using its project

management setup. Humans on her team use

it to assign tasks to agents. Agents

delegate tasks to humans or other

agents. Paperclip turns your goals into

agent tasks. It turns an SEO audit into

agent tasks. And finally, it organizes

open claw agents or even creates its own

agents. Can I just get to the real meat

and potatoes of whatever this person's

business is? What are you actually

doing? What is actually like external

facing deliverable here that adds value?

The only thing here out of these six

tasks that is not completely

masturbatory, even though it is still

quite masturbatory, is it turns an SEO

audit doc, for example, into agent

tasks. Like this is just doing project

management for agents. This is just

doing project management for agents.

This is just doing project management

for agents. This is just doing project

management for agents. This is just

organizing some BS tool to do more

project management for some other BS

tools. Like the only thing a client or a

customer would ever actually see is some

sort of SEO audit doc here, and it's not

even doing that. It's just turning that

into a bunch of tasks for agents. I

don't think people realize, but like

clients and customers and and people

that are on the other receiving end of a

business, they don't care how you do

stuff. They only care that the stuff

gets done. Likewise, when I see people

make a mountain out of a molehill like

this, it's like what are you actually

getting done? And then they're like,

"Well, I actually orchestrated a team of

whatever the hell."

Uh I'm like, "Okay, great. So, um why

didn't you just do that yourself? It

probably would have taken a hundred

times less actual man-hours than you

trying to build this incredible wrapper

around like an SEO audit doc." And by

the way, what the hell are you doing

with an SEO audit doc anyway, man?

That's 2026.

Okay, check this one out. Zero human

company install using paper clip and

Claude. You know, this looks really

cool, like, you know, went relatively

viral on X and whatnot. You have like a

little terminal with I think Ghost TTY

on the left-hand side, then you have

like the actual paper clip dashboard.

And I mean, like, I was like, "Wow, this

is so cool. What are they actually

doing?" Have you Can you read this?

Hopefully you can. It says "Community

lead agent is defining the community

content and launch strategy."

You know, this one's researching and

evaluating community platforms. This one

here is improving the admin dashboard

UX. And this one here is hardening the

assessment pipeline reliability. Like

three out of the four of these are just

[ __ ] You're just shipping and

building stuff that like helps you ship

and build stuff. You're not actually

shipping and building anything. For

instance, research and evaluate

community platforms. I mean, like,

that's just a Google search, man.

Shouldn't you, as somebody that's about

to like start a whole business or

community on this thing, build with AI,

return my time, whatever the heck,

shouldn't you just make that decision on

your end? Improving the admin dashboard

UX. Oh, I'm sorry, is paperclip not good

enough for you? So, you're going to make

your paperclip dashboard better so that

you can make your paperclip dashboard

better? How about hardening your

assessment pipeline reliability?

Guarantee you, this is some assessment

that, you know, other agents are going

to use to assess the quality of the

deliverables or something. Like, one out

of the four things here are actually

probably moving a needle in some way.

And it's something that realistically,

like, this fellow should not actually be

having a agent do. He'd just like sit

down and think about it for 5 minutes,

he'd do way more.

Okay, I got like another standout one

here. Day two out of 30, trying to make

viral videos on TikTok with paperclip.

Paperclip started and it's already

conducted research with Verlo to

identify trends in the fitness industry.

Then it researches some websites on

Reddit and Hacker News. The main

bottleneck, though, is Agent Dash Media.

I'm not sure if it can create good

enough videos yet. Sometimes the simple

videos work better than complicated

ones. Then, everything is scheduled and

posted Sometimes I'll add the the Larry

skill. Let me know if there's any other

service that I need to connect to

paperclip cuz that's obviously your

bottleneck, bro.

It's like, what is this thing doing?

It's just doing research with Verlo,

Reddit, Hacker News, and scheduling and

posted?

The only thing that matters when you

make videos is are your videos good? Why

are you like spending 99% of your time

around stuff that is not about the main

thing? Just like, make the main thing

the main thing. Just figure out if you

can make good quality videos first. Let

me tell you, I could have a quadrillion

AI agents churning in the background,

but I wouldn't be able to create the

sorts of videos that I create today

because at the end of the day, like, I

am the bottleneck and just like this

fellow is the bottleneck. He's currently

not really realizing that, so instead

he's trying to do everything possible

not to do the work that actually needs

doing. You know what all this reminds me

of? This just generational meme where

you have a simpleton on the left-hand

side and what tool does he use to get

his stuff done? Apple Notes. You have

this sort of like median average fellow

over here and what tool does does he

think he needs? He thinks he needs

Readwise and Anki and Quizlet and Adobe

Acrobat and Notion and a bajillion other

tools. But then what does like really

brilliant like person that actually

moves the needle need? Just, you know,

Apple Notes.

The point that I'm trying to make is

it's never the tool. It's just how you

use the tool. And so, in the case of

Paperclip, which is just so

fundamentally misaligned in terms of AI

and capability and then like what human

beings can do that it's not even really

worth talking about, although I will

talk about it in a second.

The only thing that you actually need in

order to get something done is is really

just the space between your two ears.

And this is a somebody This is from

somebody that like I I I work with AI on

a daily basis. I sell AI on a daily

basis. I I I make money teaching people

AI. It is not in my best interest to

talk about models and frameworks like

this. But the reality is you do not need

models and frameworks in order to do

things.

You just need like a healthy dose of

gumption and high agency to go and

actually do the thing yourself, not

delegate it off to a quadrillion agents.

The last point I'll make on this is I

don't know if anybody remembers this

hilarious exchange between Parag

Agrawal. He was I think the former CEO

of Twitter or something like that. And

then Elon Musk right before he purchased

it. Parag clearly is you know, rage mode

over here. He sends like a 10-line

message and you know, if you go back

further, there's a lot of these sorts of

exchanges between the two. And Elon just

cuts straight to the meat and potatoes

of it, which is just what did you get

done this week? So, anytime I have

anybody be like, "Nick, why aren't you

using Paperclip or Opus Maximizer? Why

aren't you using Ventro to manage your

Telegram topics?" It's like, "What did

you actually get done this week? How

much money have you actually made?" If

you look around at the people that are

actually out there building the largest

amounts

people that are actually like moving the

needle in whatever substantial way,

shape, or form. Of course, they use

these tools, but the tools aren't the

main thing. They're tools, right?

You use the tool. You don't let the tool

use you. And unfortunately, I think some

of our tools, like social media for

instance, are now at the point where

they're very clearly

using and abusing probably some of the

less capable among us for nothing more

than just like internet hype points and

clicks. There's so many problems with

stuff like this is It's even funny. I

mean, why would you organize an AI

company the same way that you would

organize a human company?

You're borrowing an organizational

hierarchy chart or framework from 100

years ago. We've been organizing

companies in this way because, like it

or not, that just tends to be the way

that human beings do. Good. We have some

sort of centralized power, right? CEO

that delegates to a few other

centralized powers, CMOs, CTOs, COOs.

Those in turn delegate and so on and so

forth.

But whether it's like a consequence of

you know, our internal Dunbar numbers or

just like how much management load every

individual person can take on,

you know, human companies tend to look

very, very similar as you get bigger.

There's no fundamental reason why an AI

company has to look like that. There's

no reason why you have to have an AI CEO

delegating to an AI COO and an AI CTO

who delegates to their own sub-agents.

You're just attempting to fit this

concept of an AI company in a shape that

we are all very familiar with, which is

obviously that of a human company. An

actual extremely efficiently organized

AI company would look nothing like this.

AI intelligence is a really spiky. They

are vastly more parallelizable, and they

can also do specific tightly scoped

tasks thousands of times faster than

human beings can. Because of these very,

very big differences, uh there's no

reason why you'd want like one, you

know, senior developer agent doing a

task. Realistically, you'd want to spin

up 50 of them, have all 50 of them

produce the same deliverable with minor

differences, calculate the mode, the

median, figure out the average things,

the outliers, collapse those into some,

you know, formal description of what the

thing is that they just made, and then

like, you know, create it with all of

this information in mind. Human beings

on the other hand are fantastic at like

zero-shot tasks. Uh have you guys seen

Arc AGI-3? That's the the new like AGI

benchmark essentially. AI freaking blows

at the ability to do things long-term in

a reliable manner. Human beings are kind

of like sniper rifles right now. It's

almost like self-adjusting uh sniper

rifles where the bullets can change

trajectory. We're capable of like

learning on the fly and and feeding back

much more effectively at these AI

agents, which instead tend to just sort

of be like in a bee-line trajectory.

Just because of the nature of our

intelligences and our various task

domains and specializations, like the

best, most efficient company in the

future is not going to look like the way

that human companies are run today. And

anybody trying to pretend like that is

the best way to do things or it's some

revolutionary thing, they're just trying

to garner engagement and clicks and a

bunch of other silly stuff that I don't

really want to talk about right now. So,

hopefully what I'm saying here makes

sense. And I'm open to, you know,

feedback and some sort of like debate or

argument in the comments. So, if you

guys have some interesting points that I

might not have considered, just let me

know down below. My take on all of this

stuff is agent frameworks like this may

eventually get to a point where they're

good, but this paperclip thing and this

theme of organizing, you know, agent

teams the exact same way you'd organize

human teams, this is just like people

looking for some form of engagement. We

saw the same thing with like N8N agents,

I don't know, 2 and 1/2 years ago or so.

And it's like, "My N8N agent controls my

whole life and pleases my wife." It's

like, "No, man, it probably doesn't.

It's just a lot of motion, but not a lot

of movement, if you catch my drift."

All right. Have a lovely rest of the

day. PSA out.