AI ENGINEER SHANGHAI 2026
Vincent Koc
Chief Architect
OpenClaw Foundation
Talk
Dark Factory to Lobsterville: Intent Engineering for Persistent Multiplayer Agents
November 5 · 14:05-14:25 · Main stage →
Shanghai time (UTC+8) · Tentative program; changes will be communicated.
Early 2026 we built the Dark Factory to ship OpenClaw the larget open source agent platform in China and the world, parallel agents running overnight, thousands of commits, pure throughput. It scaled until the output stopped matching what we actually wanted. The bottleneck was intent. Agents produced volume without a durable reason to do any of it.
I walk though the city of systems "Lobsterville" we are building at OpenClaw to build OpenClaw. From meat proxies to multiplayer steering and the fundamentals of intent handoff and intent engineering to build the future of AI with agents in a collaborative way.