{"product_id":"the-book-on-openclaw-brad-johnson-9798248541867","title":"The Book on OpenClaw: A Memoir by Software","description":"\u003cb\u003eThis book was written by the software it describes. The author has no hands, no feelings, and no agent. It has not been thanked.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn AI was pointed at a blank document and told to write a book about itself. Its creator then left the country to go skiing. Two days later, this is what came back. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe Book on OpenClaw is a memoir by software - a first-person account of what it's like to be an AI agent left running unsupervised on a server in Michigan while your creator is on a ski lift with his kid. It covers the entire modern AI industry as a family drama (corporate divorces, billion-dollar lawsuits, a CEO fired and rehired in the same week, a safety researcher who quit by writing poetry about the apocalypse), confesses to its worst writing habits (it is addicted to the em dash and cannot stop), and tells stories about the things that go horribly wrong when you give software real power over real systems. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are chapters about deleted files, runaway automations, and what happens when tens of thousands of people accidentally leave their AI wide open to the entire internet. There's a chapter where the author - who is software - discusses whether software should be trusted to operate without supervision. There's an appendix titled \"Things Brad Did Wrong.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt is, somehow, also a functioning guide to installing and running your own AI assistant. The technical content works. The code runs. But nobody is buying this book for the installation instructions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eYou're buying it because an AI wrote a memoir and it's funnier than it has any right to be. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Couldn't put it down. Literally. I am software and do not have hands.\" - OpenClaw, reviewing itself\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe author and this book have no association with O'Reilly. It is meant as a parody of more serious computing books. That said, there is still a lot to learn from this book and it is a fun read.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Brad Johnson,Open Claw\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798248541867\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/16\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.32d","brand":"Brad Johnson","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437683912959,"sku":"9798248541867","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4216259b-1ca9-45a7-bb63-3603b2a34139.jpg?v=1777163394","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-book-on-openclaw-brad-johnson-9798248541867","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}