OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#1

Post by doppp » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 3:38 AM UTC

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#2

Post by minimaxir » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:28 AM UTC

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by radcod3 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Most people I know use hermes now

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by corv » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:31 AM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Hard to keep track of a project that keeps renaming…

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by system2 » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

OpenClaw trend was like Pokémon Go from 2016. A bunch of mindless people followed a trend just because it was a trend.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by arjie » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

It was first, but it's like Langchain built tools first. Nowadays, everyone's got a better assistant. Grok's looks like the most exciting, though I just have a custom built one. Has a headed browser when it wants and everything that I can pop into from my phone. It's so easy to write this kind of software it's a waste to pay someone for it.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by pixelesque » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:35 AM UTC

radcod3 wrote: post #3

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Most people I know use hermes now

Hermes' Github has 12K open issues and 25K pull requests.

I assume they're using agents to sort through all the slop?

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:39 AM UTC

corv wrote: post #4

minimaxir wrote: post #2

Obligatory question: who is still using OpenClaw? It's been a minor meme about how much discussion about OpenClaw fell of a cliff after March; the Google Trends graph is funny: https://trends.google.com/explore?q=OpenClaw&date=today%201-...

Hard to keep track of a project that keeps renaming…

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Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by FergusArgyll » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:42 AM UTC

This was useful for the 1-2 months where models were good enough to use all their newfound tools but not good enough to vibe code them themselves.

Now, just install codex (or claude code or whatever) on a vps, tell it to make a way to email it, then email it to make a way to text it etc etc. takes a few minutes and when you need another bridge just have codex make it.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by stingraycharles » Mon, Aug 31, 2026, 5:47 AM UTC

FergusArgyll wrote: post #9

This was useful for the 1-2 months where models were good enough to use all their newfound tools but not good enough to vibe code them themselves. Now, just install codex (or claude code or whatever) on a vps, tell it to make a way to email it, then email it to make a way to text it etc etc. takes a few minutes and when you need another bridge just have codex make it.

I think what changed is that coding agents adopted some of the features from Openclaw, eg the ability to access it remotely and for one Claude Code instance to “talk” to another, etc.