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Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

You give it your etrade login and retire early.

Retire under a bridge...

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to pla…

I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

It's useful for clearing out Mac inventory before the launch this week.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to pla…

I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.

And in reality most of what does need a heartbeat loop can also easily be automated by just asking Claude to set up a cronjob. I think genuinely the most "novel" thing about something like OpenClaw is just that it "feels" more like a "real entity", like a partner rather than a chatbot, and for some reason that resonates with people. Whether that's by itself kind of a huge red flag or kind of a nothingburger, everyone has to decide for themselves.
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