The Agent Era: Token Dumping and Reverse Buying

This is what the world's top developers have been doing every day for the past few months. It can be said that Claude Code has led a revolution in coding paradigms, amazingly lowering the barrier to software creation. Later, OpenClaw was officially released and received a huge response, becoming the third AI "spectacle" after AlphaGo's victory over Ke Jie and the release of Chatgpt. The remarkable thing about OpenClaw is that it is compatible with almost all mainstream models, allowing users to freely combine OpenAI's GPT model, Anthropic's Claude model, Google's Gemini model, and even various Chinese open-source models as the "brain" to perform autonomous tasks. While major tech companies are still vying for control of closed ecosystems, this grassroots product takes a different approach, adopting a completely open strategy and making "your AI, your choice" a reality. After its explosive popularity in February, OpenClaw quickly gained the favor of millions of users worldwide, hailed as a "phenomenal breakthrough" in the field of AI agents. The successive releases of Claude Code and OpenClaw signify that this "AI wonder" has moved from the laboratory to the masses. A new concept has emerged—the era of "AI wonders." AI is no longer just a competition of model parameters and benchmarks, but has begun to demonstrate miraculous efficiency and productivity at the application level. Anthropic's Claude Code proves that AI can significantly simplify complex tasks like programming; while OpenClaw demonstrates that agent-based AI can automatically perform complex tasks in the real world. These two achievements complement each other, laying the groundwork for the Agent era. 1M Reviews doesn't want to paint a grand narrative, but we are currently standing at the turning point of the third miracle of AI development, a world created by autonomous agents is slowly unfolding. The first chapter of the Agent history textbook: Replacing the software industry. Again, it's Anthropic. Last week, its AI Agent tool, Claude Cowork, added plugin functionality and released 11 plugins covering finance, sales, legal, and other fields. Upon its release, global software stocks collectively plummeted, wiping out $300 billion in market value. Wall Street even coined a new term for this phenomenon: "SaaSpocalypse," meaning the end of SaaS. All of Claude Cowork's code was automatically generated by Claude Code, a process that took only 10 days. Boris Cherny, head of Anthropic, stated that all his code over the past two months was generated using AI, and Cowork is precisely "a product written with AI tools." The product manager in charge of the project revealed on social media platform X: "@claudeai wrote Cowork. We humans only discussed architecture and product decisions in meetings, while developers each managed 3 to 8 Claude instances to implement features, fix bugs, or research solutions." Because of this, the first version was completed in just a week and a half. In other words, from deciding to develop to officially launching, a complex software plugin completed the entire process in only about 10 days. The rapid birth of the Cowork plugin declares to the world: The software development model has been fundamentally revolutionized. On X, it was observed that the industry interprets the birth of Claude Cowork as a real-world prototype of a "one-person company": with minimal human resources (even just one person), and with the help of powerful AI agents, projects that previously required an engineering team of months to complete can be finished. A programmer plus an agent can essentially become a company.