Ethers Club #59 - Shawmakeslogic - ElizaOS, and the future of work.
Feb 2, 2026
Shaw (Shaw Makes Magic), former touring musician turned programmer and creator of the open-source Eliza agent framework. He talks about Eliza’s origin and core abstractions, multi-language agent tooling, always-on and serverless agent tradeoffs, agents controlling real devices, and how personalized agents could reshape attention, creativity, and the future of work.
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Use AI As Performance Arbitrage
- Lean into AI to amplify your productivity instead of resisting it.
- Use AI as arbitrage to get far ahead while others dismiss it.
Craft Remains Valuable After Automation
- Craft and artisanal work retain value even when mass generation becomes trivial.
- Automation can free skilled people to pursue craft, not erase meaningful creative demand.
Be An Orchestrator, Not Just A Coder
- Rebrand yourself as an orchestrator if you primarily coordinate AI workflows.
- Focus on managing, supervising, and cleaning up agent outputs rather than hand-coding everything.
