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Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Same for OpenClaw, it will be commodity soon if you don't think it is already

Not sure. I mean the tech yes definitely. But the community not.

The community is tiny by any measure (beyond the niche), market penetration is still very very early

Anthropic's community, I assume, is much bigger. How hard it is for them to offer something close enough for their users?

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Did this guy just exit the first one man billion-dollar startup for... less than a billion?

Was the project really ever valued that high? Seems like something that can be easily replicated and even properly thought out (re: pi). This guy just ran the social media hype train the right way.

Reminds me of Facebook, there was nothing particularly interesting about a PHP app that stored photos and text in a flat user environment.

Yet somehow the network effects worked out well and the website was the preeminent social network for almost a decade.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Did this guy just exit the first one man billion-dollar startup for... less than a billion?

Was the project really ever valued that high? Seems like something that can be easily replicated and even properly thought out (re: pi). This guy just ran the social media hype train the right way.

It's kind of crazy that this kind of thing can cause so much hype. It is even useful? I just really don't see any utility in being able to access an LLM via Telegram or whatever.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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With OpenClaw we are seeing how the app layer becomes as important as the model layer. You can switch models multiple times (online/proprietary, open weight, local), but you have one UI : OpenClaw.

Indeed, coding agents took off because of a lot of ongoing trial and error on how to build the harness as much as model quality.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Was the project really ever valued that high? Seems like something that can be easily replicated and even properly thought out (re: pi). This guy just ran the social media hype train the right way.

Wasn't this the same guy that responded with a shrug to thousands of malware packages on their vibe-repo? I'd say an OpenAI signing bonus is more than enough of a reward to give up that leaky ship!

Clawhub was locked down, I couldn’t publish new skills even as a previous contributor. Not what I‘d call a shrug.

Re: I’m joining OpenAI

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Never understood the hype. Good for the guy but what was the product really? And he goes on and on about changing the world. Gimme a break. You cashed out. End of story.

Just connecting social platforms to agents. That's all. Anyone can code it, and the project was obviously vibe coded. For some reason it got viral.

Good for him, but no particular geniusness.

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