After spending time with OpenClaw and seeing how it actually works, I’m convinced the hype is real. It shows that autonomous AI agents are finally living up to their promise.
I was in the room at this year’s Pragmatic Summit when Laura Tacho dropped the numbers: nearly all developers use AI coding assistants, over a quarter of production code is AI-written - and yet productivity gains haven’t budged past 10%.
That number is expected to rise to 65% within two years. Yet 96% of developers, according to this Sonar research, say they don’t fully trust AI-generated code.
With AI building features, teams must shift from doing tasks to orchestrating them - PMs guide intent, engineers oversee systems, designers review output live, and QA builds self-healing processes.
17 countries, 20 hours, and a lot of voice-driven experiments: Warsaw became a playground for builders testing the limits of AI, gaming, and storytelling at the Project Europe x ElevenLabs hackathon