AI Agent Can Execute. You Still Have to Think.

AI agents can execute faster than we ever could. But speed doesn’t replace judgment. My OpenClaw upgrade turned into an experiment in preparation, supervision, and knowing when to let agents work, and when to step in.

The MCP Noise Tax

MCP itself wasn’t the problem. Treating MCP integrations as nearly free infrastructure was. Two integrations, two unexpected resource costs, and one old EliteDesk made the operational cost of another abstraction very audible.