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OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

OpenClaw is built on top of Pi.

That would support my notion that one is a fundamental block/lib for the other thing, and not really comparable. Am I wrong?

They are different like you say, but the jump from an interactive, agentic shell like pi to a long running agent like OpenClaw is not a hard jump to make with extensions and scripts. Even just running pi in a cron job will get you a large portion of the way there.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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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 was using Cursor in such way. Now I have to migrate to Codex somewhere soon.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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Actually I use Hermes Agent who delegates tasks to OpenClaw. It works perfectly, we run OpenClaw experiments with my partner as an independent drop shipper, it’s much more complicated setup, which cannot disclose publicly, but it works. The brain is Hermes, OpenClaw from VPS is a fearless executor :)

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#136
post #13

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-...

I remember when everyone was ordering Mac Minis. "How many mac minis you got" down at the local pub. Funny times.

I don't believe this happened.

Why would you go to a pub to talk to people if you have all those agents at home. Especially if one spent money on mac minis in bulk I wouldn't have money to spend on beer at the pub, just get cheap 6-pack from grocery store.

Maybe bar fights enjoyers? Well with bots I just unplug it and I win :)

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#137
post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can check the scripts and cronjobs, als ask it to summarize the scripts actions (using another agent/model if you want). All in all, LLMs are not 100% trustworthy but generally things go as intended.

“Generally” I am not anti ai in any way but I do worry people will end up in trouble by giving things like ai agents too much fredom

I have heard some stories about people's clawbot doing things like deleting their entire email inbox or buying random shit with their credit cards. it's difficult to tell how many of those stories are real or if they were just stories that would be funny.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#138

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`

Which features do you require?

I built an agent to work with local Ollama models, and it will keep working and iterate on a goal until finished, but it doesn't do sub-agents or or any of the "just burn a million tokens but finish this" pipelines that seem to be the trend now.

It's a simple D executable that basically consumes no resources in your local machine.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

#139

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`

You may be interested in https://nanoclaw.dev/. It uses Claude by default but can run other harnesses after initial setup. Easier to grok IMHO.

Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally

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post #36
post #14

I like the idea but do not have a good use for these semi-autonomous agents. Or any notion for a decent use, frankly. What do people do with them? It sounds great to have an always-on box which does things. Like a server. I have servers. There are even Signal and other transports so you can communicate with the box conveniently. And then what?

Mine is contributing to media preservation by reverse engineering Android apps/games that were forced into obsolescence by Google's policies: https://xcjs.com/blog/2026/08/29/resurrecting-2013-with-qwen...

And publishing them in F-Droid?
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