https://williamresearch.com/tags/ai-agents/Recent content in AI Agents on Research LogsHugoen-USFri, 10 Apr 2026 00:05:00 +0700https://williamresearch.com/posts/decoding-ai-skills-without-the-hype/Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:05:00 +0700https://williamresearch.com/posts/decoding-ai-skills-without-the-hype/<h2 id="the-hook-why-skills-sound-smarter-than-they-are">The Hook: Why &ldquo;Skills&rdquo; Sound Smarter Than They Are</h2> <p>The current discourse around AI &ldquo;skills&rdquo; is noisy for a simple reason: the word sounds like capability, progress, even a form of learning. That framing is convenient for demos and marketplaces. It is also misleading.</p> <p>From a systems perspective, a skill is not intelligence. It is not a new reasoning engine. It is not proof that the model has learned a reusable capability in the way engineers usually mean learning. In practice, a skill is a structured way to constrain how a model receives instructions, how it decides the next step, and which tools it is allowed to call.</p>https://williamresearch.com/posts/openclaw-fomo-storm/Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:00:00 +0700https://williamresearch.com/posts/openclaw-fomo-storm/<p>You wake up, and your social feed is a constant stream of people &ldquo;flexing&rdquo; their custom-made bots. One has an AI agent writing all its code, another has one that automatically cleans its entire system, and a third has one sending hundreds of personalized emails while it sleeps. The quiet whispers among techies turn into a booming shout: &ldquo;If you don&rsquo;t use this, you&rsquo;re on the fast track to being outdated.&rdquo; It feels like your colleague across the hall just inherited a diligent, silent, and extremely capable army that works 24/7, while you&rsquo;re still ploddingly typing your commands. The Fear Of Missing Out (FOMO) hits its absolute peak, and people are rushing to install it on their machines without taking a moment to understand what kind of &ldquo;godlike entity&rdquo; they are welcoming home.</p>