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Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by eranation »

I did, it went great until it borked my mac user to the point it's non recoverable (separate mac mini, I just created a new one)

I then moved to Claude CoWork + computer use + dispatch. (before Anthropic disabled the subscription option, although that would have pushed me even more... sadly)

Now use it less and use more Claude Code Remote Routines... all it needs is computer use and I'm selling my Mac Mini... (I probably won't, need something to pay with paperclip, gastown, nanoclaw and the next 100k stars FOMO hype)

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by girvo »

BeetleB wrote: post #67
anticorporate wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's actually the best hypothesis I've heard to date. My immediate reaction to anything someone says they're using OpenClaw for is "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing, which would be better in every possible way." My approach to automation projects is just about the polar opposite of something like OpenClaw. How can I take this mess…

> "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing As a no-longer-Claw-user, hard disagree. The convenience is being able to ask it to do something while I'm grocery shopping and have it automatically test it etc. Sure, I can set up Claude Code or some other tool similarly, but the majority of us aren't going to take the time to set it up to do wh…

Genuine question, why did you stop using it!

Edit: ah, scrolled down where you answered, thanks

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by Bridged7756 »

redact207 wrote: post #39

When I saw Jensen's talk about how Openclaw surpassed React and Linux in terms of GitHub stars within a few months, I knew the whole thing was manufactured bot hype. No one can tell me a compelling use case. The whole thing seems designed around getting people to burn more tokens.

My thoughts exactly. If whatever i wanted it to do was so unimportant that I can trust this thing to have full control over it and to do it successfully why even do it anyways? The risks of giving it full unparalleled API key access and control fully outweigh whatever gain.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by girvo »

linkregister wrote: post #51
araes wrote: post #27

Personally, better way to phrase might be "Does anybody you've actually met, visually viewed, use OpenClaw? Can you verify them using the software nearby?" In a few years, it's become so easy to falsify articles, falsify comments, falsify images, difficult to really even trust responses online anyways. As far back as 2016, Microsoft already had bots deployed online that could respond 96,000 times [1] in 16 hours all…

What does this have to do with OpenClaw? The Powers That Be want us to think there's a large user base of OpenClaw?

I mean the big AI companies are totally keen around it, wouldn’t surprise me?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by senorrib »

valleyer wrote: post #54
razingeden wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>scripting and automation I cringe at my old boss’s handiwork in Claude and power automate sometimes and go “you know I could just do that in a script and a cron job and it would be completely bullet proof, right?” Then he just shoots back with, “yeah but now I don’t have to ask you.” This is my kludge, there are many others like it but this one is mine.

Does the boss not understand that they could get Claude to write them a script and a crontab entry (so they don't have to ask you) -- and then run it forever (so they don't have to pay Anthropic, or risk temperature randomness)? Best of both worlds...

Boss might not even know what Bash is, let alone a crontab.

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by gokhan »

albertgoeswoof wrote: post #26
dsiegel2275 wrote: post #16

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

You should ask claude code to write a bash script that does this for you. Then run that as a Cronjob every night. You might not need any inference at all to create the flash cards so it would be free.

> ...useful flashcards...

How would the script do that without inference from free format md files?

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by ashwinsundar »

dsiegel2275 wrote: post #16

I have it installed on an extra macbook pro that I had available. I'm really only using it at the moment for one use case: Nightly, I have OpenClaw pull the latest changes from a private GitHub repo that is my Obsidian notes vault. It then looks to see which new notes have been added and then runs a "create flashcard" skill to extract and author useful flashcards for spaced-repetition practice. I then gave it access…

You should have it also review the cards too! /s

Re: Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?

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Post by linkregister »

Bridged7756 wrote: post #88
linkregister wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What does this have to do with OpenClaw? The Powers That Be want us to think there's a large user base of OpenClaw?

No. They want you to believe in the hype and that LLMs are the death of programmers and limitless. OpenClaw and other such agents are sold as a tool that "can do anything" but behind the scenes, the implication is still that big LLM is driving it. So both are conflated.

Who's they? What does this have to do with King Charles?
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