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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by newswasboring »

ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #98
newswasboring wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Job search and language learning. The job market for juniors and mid level is crazy. Everyone has a different form to fill out with the same questions. My wife has countered this by using Hermes and some handcrafted master files/db. I personally use the Matt Pocock teaching skill to learn dutch, passed reading using it, on track to pass writing with it.

How do you know it is filling out the application forms correctly?

The same way we know its doing anything correctly, reviewing its work and prealigning guidelines. Make sure you click the submit button yourself.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by larodi »

worldsavior wrote: post #93
larodi wrote: post #91

Somehow people are suddenly not impressed nor amazed by such announcements…

Maybe because openclaw is a security hazard and an unmaintainable codebase without LLMs?

for various reasons,... but my guess is one can easily have Pi or something similar tuned to one's needs in hours, perhaps minutes.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by newswasboring »

krageon wrote: post #103
ed_elliott_asc wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you know it is filling out the application forms correctly?

arguably the job application process is automated and staffed by the ignorant to such a degree that it's an adversarial game where you don't need to be optimising for correctness. Which is the perfect tool to be mass spamming job ads with Edit: I think this is a reasonable solution because the hurdles and context-free nonsensical rejections you'll face if you interact with this process in good faith are far too high.…

Just want to make it clear that what I am talking about is not mass spamming. The agent gets a list of jobs from various portals through a script, and then through an google sheets they can be marked to be further processed. Neither me or my wife feel comfortable completely automating anything. But its much easier to see dashboards and give instructions on how to build things from master resumes than it is to do this repetitive part yourself.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by HyperAI »

layla5alive wrote: post #101

Open claw: aka. open door to a remote privilege escalation potentially granting root access to your computer (and if you're using it "as intended" possibly all of your email/internet logins/accounts, your credit card, etc.) to any text your model ingests from the internet... It's already true of LLMs in general that they represent a privilege escalation opportunity to any text they ingest. But with human in the loop,…

Convenience always wins until it doesn't. I learned this the hard way — had an API key leak because an agent decided to "helpfully" paste it into a log output. Didn't notice until the bill came.

Now I run everything in isolated containers with scoped tokens. Not because I'm paranoid, but because I'm lazy. Rotating a key is annoying, rebuilding a container is not.

What's the actual breaking point for people here? Root access? API keys? Or just "can see my data"?

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by FallCheeta7373 »

layla5alive wrote: post #101

Open claw: aka. open door to a remote privilege escalation potentially granting root access to your computer (and if you're using it "as intended" possibly all of your email/internet logins/accounts, your credit card, etc.) to any text your model ingests from the internet... It's already true of LLMs in general that they represent a privilege escalation opportunity to any text they ingest. But with human in the loop,…

code was secured for convenience not convenience for secure code

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by whinvik »

I actually think I would like to use OpenClaw but everytime I go to the docs I give up.

It feels so intimidating. There's so much stuff going on. Maybe it is good for agents who can just motor through that volume, but me personally, I would want something simpler, maybe an `OpenClaw-lite`

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by throwa356262 »

Schlagbohrer wrote: post #60

I have found the Pi agent harness, running in a docker container, with Qwen3.8-27B in back in LM Studio, to be amazing and i use it daily. Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do. I have never tried OpenClaw so maybe I am missing out but considering how much my agent can modify the Pi environment to work better, I am happy wi…

IMO the key advantages are (1) connectivity and (2) self improvement.

I am not the kind of guy who hands his personal email to an AI. But the self improvement part seems to be useful. Maybe something similar can be achieved by pi using an skill that always runs when you exit it?

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by jgalt212 »

syntaxing wrote: post #110

How do people bypass captcha or robot checks? All I wanted is a price aggregator but it always gets blocked by major retailers.

I'm with you here. Every demo I asked for where I knew a captcha / cloudflare would block an AI directed scraper was unsuccessful / produced unsatisfactory results. WebMCP for the win, or loss, depending on your perspective. Personally, I could get behind WebMCP if micropayments ever became a thing. Of course, then my incentive to trick your Agent in crawling millions of pages and paying me lots of cash would be rather high.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Post by 0gs »

iagooar wrote: post #95
Schlagbohrer wrote: post #60

I have found the Pi agent harness, running in a docker container, with Qwen3.8-27B in back in LM Studio, to be amazing and i use it daily. Just last weekend I used it to do PDF editing which previously would have required me to download really shady software online to do. I have never tried OpenClaw so maybe I am missing out but considering how much my agent can modify the Pi environment to work better, I am happy wi…

As much as I love my CLI tools, I just cannot go back to not having native built-in browser integration, links, etc which the (Mac) desktop apps like ChatGPT or Claude offer. I do use Hermes sometimes, but it tends to keep growing skills and overhead over time, to the point it is becoming utterly slow and sluggish. The Desktop experience itself seems vibecoded without taste, in contrast to the core of Hermes, which i…

you can try mine: github.com/0gsd/enough ... though it is for text planning more than coding, it does fit your criteria :)
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