It’s still early to put a number on the actual productivity gains from this movement, but the push to agents is undeniable. It’s also very exclusive. For all the talk of, “the only coding language you need to know is English,” there are technical barriers to joining this wave. You don’t necessarily need to know how to code in order to use OpenClaw, but it helps considerably.
To get non-coders get over those barriers, AI companies are shipping “training wheels” for agents, products that abstract away the challenging bits. Anthropic released Claude Cowork—Claude Code for the rest of us (which was notably built with Claude Code). More recently, Perplexity launched Computer, its “general-purpose digital worker” that users can prompt in natural language and watch it go to work.
It sounds magical in the way every good demo does: frictionless, conversational, inevitable. If you squint, you can picture a near future where knowledge work—and especially editorial work—shifts from dashboards to dialogue. Instead of pulling levers on various software menus and dashboards, you’ll just talk to agents. They’ll handle the hard stuff, and if they run into barriers, you’ll just ask another agent to build the solution.