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Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by CuriouslyC »

jryio wrote: post #11

There have been a few of these kanban[1] user interfaces over claude code or some other agent (open claw). These are all proto orchestrators. No one has discovered/converged on what agent orchestration actually looks like. Other projects include conductor.build, gas town (infamously), and others. Another layer of abstraction in the infinite castle of computer science. 1: https://www.vibekanban.com/

Much like people have different takes on the right way to do the SDLC, we're gonna see a lot of takes on orchestration. None of are really that meaningful until we unblock on validation, but to the extent that they also come with observability tools, they're at least useful there. I'm dubious of agent specific silo'd task management though, that should be surfaced to entire teams.

Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by CuriouslyC »

nickvec wrote: post #22

Haven't dug as much as I would like to into OpenClaw, but why is there so much hype around it? I don't understand the appeal of using it as a replacement for Claude Code.

It's not a replacement for claude code, the people using it are typically somewhat less technical and might use it to code but are primarily interested in automations (particularly ones they can post about on social media).

Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by CuriouslyC »

acedTrex wrote: post #20

I love this trend of posting vibe coded in a day slop apps to every place on the internet. Really makes me want to be here.

We're all hustling to stay relevant because we're caught in a cutthroat game of musical chairs as our industry gets automated, and there's little incentive to polish anything before releasing since 90% of the time you'll just get ignored regardless, so you might as well see if your project/landing page hooks before burning a bunch of time.

I polish stuff before promoting because I'm averse to reputation damage, but every day that I see people not doing that and getting upvotes anyhow makes the practice harder to justify.

Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by Fiahil »

lelandbatey wrote: post #6
Jonathanfishner wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i have 34 more minutes to edit this post, give me something good and i'll change it

Here's just a couple, mostly bad, feel free to use: Kanclaw Clawban Clawboard Clawlo Clask (Claw-task)

Clasp, from Foundation, was nice

Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by panza »

nickvec wrote: post #22

Haven't dug as much as I would like to into OpenClaw, but why is there so much hype around it? I don't understand the appeal of using it as a replacement for Claude Code.

OpenClaw is more of a resident AI. It's always running, has access to loads of systems beyond coding (eg email, calendar, browser), and you have many ways to talk to it (like WhatsApp, Signal etc).

It's also an atomic bomb of a security hole waiting to explode.

Re: Show HN: Clawe – open-source Trello for agent teams

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Post by itissid »

nickvec wrote: post #22

Haven't dug as much as I would like to into OpenClaw, but why is there so much hype around it? I don't understand the appeal of using it as a replacement for Claude Code.

Venturing a guess. Its the hype of the non-technical automation crowd. APIs are hard for these people to grok and work with. The others are the engineering/dev/product crowd, the best among them have a high BS detector threshold. The former are a lot more numerically and its why the hype is so high.

Whereas the former see things talking to each other across boundaries with a minimal set up, the latter might look at it and see/say: "hard leaky abstractions"/"Poor security model"/"High $/task", you can't you build/sell it.

Where the latter crowd might exclaim: "Look my slack bot can confirm with my doctor when calendar appointment is near. SaaS tools are dead!". The engineering/dev/product are more sceptical and they are right to be so.

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