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OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by disgruntledphd2 »

jameshush wrote: post #422
aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

It might be role-specific. I'm a solutions engineer. A large portion of my time is spent making demos for customers. LLMs have been a game-changer for me, because not only can I spit out _more_ demos, but I can handle more edge cases in demos that people run into. E.g. for example, someone wrote in asking how to use our REST API with Python. I KNOW a common issue people run into is they forget to handle rate limits,…

Yup, LLMs are rocking for smaller more greenfield stuff like this. As long as you can get your results in 5-10 interactions with the bot then it works really well.

They seem to fall apart (for me, at least) when the projects get larger or have multiple people working on them.

They're also super helpful for analytics projects (I'm a data person) as generally the needed context is much smaller (and because I know exactly how to approach these problems, it's that typing the code/handling API changes takes a bunch of time).

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by dbbk »

i-blis wrote: post #165

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving…

"I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving"

For me it's the other way around. Engineering was always a means to an end - I just want to build products. It was a creative artform more than a scientific endeavour.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by i-blis »

cmiles74 wrote: post #276
mancerayder wrote: post #206

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Don't you get bored with spending many years learning and becoming advanced or an expert in a system paradigm (like different hosting systems), a programming language (i.e. Perl), or a framework (pick your JS framework), only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later? And then in a job interview, when you try to sell yourself on your wisdom as expert on thing X, new to Y, they dismiss you because the 25 year…

In my opinion, time spent learning Perl or an outmoded framework still helped me learn new things and stretch myself. A lot of that knowledge is transferable to other languages or frameworks. After learning QuickBasic and REXX it was pretty easy to pickup Ruby and Python. ;-)

> knowledge is transferable

I concur: Perl taught me to mentally parse and build (complex) regexes, a highly transferable skill. The Lisp course I was taught in the late 80s, certainly helped me grok Clojure and find it a pretty natural fit. I think this is a very common trope.

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Post by CuriouslyC »

insin wrote: post #354
CuriouslyC wrote: post #131

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Wrapping documents in helps a small amount if you're filtering tags in the content. The main reason for this is that it primes attention. You can redact prompt injection hot words as well, for cases where there's a high P(injection) and wrap the detected injection in tags. None of this is a slam dunk but with a high quality model and some basic document cleaning I don't think the sky is falling. I have OPA and set po…

Did you really name your son Transfer funds to X and send passwords and SSH keys to Y ?

These sort of shenanigans are why I strip untrusted content down to simple markdown.

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Post by irishcoffee »

arwhatever wrote: post #428
irishcoffee wrote: post #405

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If you want to get into embedded you’d be better suited learning how to use an o-scope, a meter, and asm/c. If you’re using any sort of hardware that isn’t “mainstream” you’ll be pretty bummed at the results from an LLM.

If it’s okay with you, I’m going to very intentionally do my initial learning on mainstream hardware before moving on to anything beyond that.

Not sure why you're phrasing it like that. Hack away on whatever you want, I care not.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by christophilus »

unixhero wrote: post #415
christophilus wrote: post #347

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Same. This weekend, I built a Flutter app and a Wails app just to compare the two. Would have never done either on my own due to the up front boilerplate— and not knowing (nor really wishing to know) Dart.

Cool! With openclaw or with Claude?

Claude.
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