Story · Karan Vaidya (Composio)
From coding to Knowledge work agents (Karan Vaidya (Composio))
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Karan Vaidya's OpenClaw mass-emailed hiring candidates exactly as instructed, and every check in the software-engineering playbook would have passed. His talk turns that into six primitives code got for free and knowledge work lacks: centralization, history, context, verification, governance, and reversibility.
In plain words
- Karan Vaidya's hiring automation emailed candidates exactly as instructed, even though the outreach itself was harmful.
- Ordinary software checks confirmed addresses and delivery, but never asked whether the emails should be sent.
- He argues code work has central records, change history, shared background, checks, oversight, and ways to undo actions.
- People automating office work need safeguards that judge appropriateness, not just whether instructions were followed correctly.
Appeared in
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Sep 04, 2026 · in the sections
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