openclaw ai agent vs just using chatgpt

I've been using AI tools pretty heavily for the past couple of years. ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity, a few others. I thought I had a good mental model of what these things could and couldn't do. Then I set up an openclaw agent and realized I had been thinking about it completely wrong. The difference isn't capability. Claude is more capable than my openclaw agent in a lot of way, the difference is orientation. Every AI tool I've used before openclaw was som