Personal AI agents had their breakout this year. OpenClaw crossed 100,000 GitHub stars within months of launching, and self-hosting your own assistant went from a hobbyist trick to something a lot of developers actually do.

Personal AI agents had their breakout this year. OpenClaw crossed 100,000 GitHub stars within months of launching, and self-hosting your own assistant went from a hobbyist trick to something a lot of developers actually do.