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OpenClaw is changing my life

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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by gyomu »

bwb wrote: post #16
necklesspen wrote: post #8

The same author had good things to say about the R1, a device you generally won't see many glowing reviews about. ( https://reorx.com/blog/rabbit-r1-the-upgraded-replacement-fo... ) Maybe it's unfair to judge an author's current opinion by their past opinion - but since the piece is ultimately an opinion based on their own experience I'm going to take it along a giant pile of salt that the author's standards for the…

Hah, I read that as well and made a big "hmmmmmmmmm" sound... The last time I talked to someone about OpenClaw and how it is helping them, they told me it tells them what their calendar has for them today or auto-tweets for them (i.e., non-human spam). The first is as simple as checking your calendar, and the second is blatant spam. Anyone found some good use cases beyond a better interface for AI code assistance?

I think a sizable proportion of people just want to play "large company exec". Their dream is to have an assistant telling them how busy their day is, all the meetings they have, then to go to those meetings and listen to random fluff people tell them while saying "mmh yeah what a wise observation" or "mmh no not enough synergy here, let's pivot and really leave our mark on this market, crunch the numbers again".

I can't come up with any other explanation for why there seems to be so many people claiming that AI is changing their life and workflow, as if they have a whole team of junior engineers at their disposal, and yet have really not that much to show for it.

They're so white collar-pilled that they're in utter bliss experiencing a simulation of the peak white collar experience, being a mid-level manager in meetings all day telling others what to do, with nothing tangible coming out of it.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by guerrilla »

phito wrote: post #10
aiobe wrote: post #5

what was the instruction to write and promote this post?

Exactly, I'm not going to waste my time reading this AI generating post that's basically promoting itself. What I really wonder, is who the heck is upvoting this slop on hackernews?

It only has 11 points. It just got caught in the algorithm. That's all.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by zkmon »

That's a very inefficient way to interact with CC. There will be transmission losses that need too much feedback looping.

So, it appears that we have come a long way bubbling up through abstraction layers: assembly code -> high-level languages -> scripting -> prompting -> openclaw.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by jruz »

I admire the people that can live happily in the ignorance of what’s under the hood, in this case not even under the layer of claude code because that was too much aparently so people are now putting openclaw+telegram on top of that.

And me ruining my day fighting with a million hooks, specs and custom linters micromanaging Claude Code in the pursuit of beautiful code.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by CamperBob2 »

phito wrote: post #10
aiobe wrote: post #5

what was the instruction to write and promote this post?

Exactly, I'm not going to waste my time reading this AI generating post that's basically promoting itself. What I really wonder, is who the heck is upvoting this slop on hackernews?

Another good example, from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46860845

Articles like these should be flagged, and typically would be, but they sometimes appear mysteriously flag-proof.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by exitb »

charcircuit wrote: post #19
perbu wrote: post #9

This is quite a low quality post. There is nothing of substance here. Just hot air. The only software I've seen designed and implemented by OpenClaw is moltbook. And I think it is hard to come up with a bigger pile of crap than Moltbook. If somebody can build something decent with OpenClaw, that would help add some credibility to the OpenClaw story.

My openclaw built skills (python scripts) to interact with the Notion API which allows it to make work items for me and evenly distribute them, setting due dates on my calendar.

It’s a fun example, because openclaw is the boss in it and you are the agent.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by whateveracct »

perbu wrote: post #9

This is quite a low quality post. There is nothing of substance here. Just hot air. The only software I've seen designed and implemented by OpenClaw is moltbook. And I think it is hard to come up with a bigger pile of crap than Moltbook. If somebody can build something decent with OpenClaw, that would help add some credibility to the OpenClaw story.

AI is all facade

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by Maxion »

gyomu wrote: post #18

> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects > This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their aut…

A lot of more senior coders when they actively try vibe coding a greenfield project find that it does actually work. But only for the first ~10kloc. After that the AI, no matter how well you try to prompt it, will start to destroy existing features accidentally, will add unnecessary convoluted logic to the code, will leave benhind dead code, add random traces "for backwards compatibility", will avoid doing the correct thing as "it is too big of a refactor", doesn't understand that the dev database is not the prod database and avoids migrations. And so forth.

I've got 10+ years of coding experience, I am an AI advocate, but not vibe coding. AI is a great tool to help with the boring bits, using it to initialize files, help figure out various approaches, as a first pass code reviewer, helping with configuring, those things all work well.

But full-on replacing coders? It's not there yet. Will require an order of magnitude more improvement.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by helloplanets »

gyomu wrote: post #18

> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects > This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their aut…

Specifics on the setup. Specifics on the projects.

SHOW ME THE MONEY!!!

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