Saying that becoming an EM is "moving away from tech" is crazy. As an EM you will be steeped in tech, just as you would be as an IC. It just may not be the tech you want to be steeped in. Again, same as an IC. In either case, unless you are working in AI, you will need to "play" with things like OpenClaw in your spare time.

The real reason not to become an EM in 2026 is because AI makes our jobs 10x harder.

I haven't needed that yet! But it seems like the agent could easily be notified of completed activities.

Nope! The summary is presented to the user via a link and once the user follows the link and approves, the action is implemented entirely outside of the agent, on a separate server.

I've created my own "claw" running in fly.io with a pattern that seems to work well. I have MCP tools for actions that I want to ensure human-in-the loop - email sending, slack message sending, etc. I call these "activities". The only way for my claw to execute these commands is to create an activity which generates a link with the summary of the acitvity for me to approve.

Here are benchmark results vs AJV: https://github.com/sberan/tjs/blob/main/benchmarks/results/B...

There are raw stats in the main graph image of the readme (op/s)

I don't compare it to that validator because these are JS only - I'll update to specify the language preference. Thanks for the feedback.