There is a battle playing out at the center of the agent world right now. On one side: Anthropic and OpenAI, two companies that spent most of 2025 learning a bitter lesson. Shipping fast does not mean organizations actually adopt. On the other side: Nvidia, which just launched NemoClaw. Embedded inside that launch is a philosophy that is quietly more interesting than the product itself. NemoClaw is built on engineering principles that are fifty years old. And that is not a cr