Founder of the 360th Group, Zhou Hongjian, read the OpenClaw phenomenon in depth: AI Agent is moving from a dialogue tool to a digital employee.
Over the past two months, the Open-source AI Agent project OpenClaw has generated widespread interest in Chinese science and technology circles, known by the industry as the "Little Lobster." This wave of technology has not only ignited industrial enthusiasm, but has given rise to collective anxiety at the societal level: large-scale technology firms fear that the flow entrance will be rebuilt; workplace workers are concerned that jobs may be replaced; and security experts are worried that core system data may be out of control in the wake of a sarcastic alarm. In the last year, why did the technology giants go back to the various platforms that they had invested heavily in? And an open-source "crawfish" could break through the circle and move into the mainstream? In his recent internal speech, the founder of the 360th Group, Zhou Hongjung, gave his industry prejudicing: AI Agent is moving from a "talking tool" to a "digital worker" who can actually do its job, a shift that would directly undermine the existing traditional software ecology. OpenClaw released the "digital workforce" capability. Zhou Hong-hwan argued that, despite China’s industrial boom over the past year, large models are still more like handless chat robots. Many of the different types of Agent promoted by large companies stayed in the question-and-answer phase and remained essentially software tools built around preset, fixed processes. However, OpenClaw’s breakout confirms the “extended law of skills.” When Agent is given a very high degree of authority and freedom, it is no longer a process that responds only when it is triggered, but rather a completely new productivity – capable of self-exploring, self-assembled thousands of tools to solve the problem. It gives the public a real understanding of what Agent is: silicon-based workers with the ability to execute and self-correct. The end of the software industry, with Agent's growing capacity, is fundamentally reshaping the benefits of the system. Zhou Hongjing believes that traditional software will move towards "sinking" and become more plugged, modular -- into the raw material bank that Agent can use at any time. In the past, users were able to accept only the pre-written features and settings of developers -- like microwave food with heating pre-packaged. But the little lobster model broke this pattern. Zhou Hongjing predicts that future programming will be the foundation for all Agents. When Agent encounters problems without ready-made tools, it "write side by side": writing a small section of the code in the field solves the problem and abandons it. One-key deployment challenges, despite the enormous productivity potential of OpenClaw, are faced with a very high technological threshold. Building virtual machines, configuration development environments, and connecting a variety of APIs takes about six hours, even for senior engineers. To address these two pains, the 360 Group officially released the 360 Safe Lobster Agent application client and the 360 Secure Lobox hardware terminal. This solution compressed the complex configuration process to less than 10 minutes, resulting in a real key opening. At the security level, 360 follows the principle of "minimum authority" and introduces the primary safety component "360 lobster guards". Through virtual sandboxing (WSL) and physical isolation techniques, secure borders are defined for government business clients and individual users – without disrupting the Agent mission. The lobster is just the starting point. If you think of it as a smart intern -- to accommodate its mistakes, to grow it -- you'll find that a new business era has begun.