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?
I think this is a good question, as with any of these new things you don't really feel any need indeed. My claw scrapes some APIs, receives some emails with job listings, and matches it all to my profile. It can also fill two folders at 2 domains with anything (ie a demo for a website). It can also receive emails, make PFDs out of them and forward them to my bookkeeping software (which can only deal with attachments,…
OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
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#182how many people fall into the openclaw trap because they just need a way to command agents from mobile, and cron tasks? Only thing I am missing with codex is the ability to recall anything from any session (I see it in this openclaw "2" release note so I guess it wasn't in openclaw "1" anyway). I guess claude and codex can look up transcripts globally too, just not as a first class feature.
That is exactly what I'm building pond for myself: one store for all my sessions, Codex and Claude Code both and a bunch of others including OpenClaw, and my agents can access it over MCP. It also happens really often that when my agents cannot find something, they just call pond search themselves. Faster that way. Whenever I need a session from a while ago now, I just know it's in pond. Repo, if you'd be willing to…
Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
In my case it has its own Docker container it can do as it pleases in, is more usable from a smartphone on the go, and has tooling geared toward long-lived loops, including automatic session resumption after power loss.
My OpenCode setup has most of this. Automatic resumption is kind of cool. Could you go into the the tooling for long-lived loops?
Herems is better suited as an independent agent in my opinion, and I still see OpenCode as primarily an interactive one. Sure, you can hammer OpenCode into an independent agent I'm sure, but I'd rather use a system someone else has put more hours of thought and design into.
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#185Earlier quoted context omitted.
who is going to target _your_ specific holes and infrastructure though? :)
Automated scripts that target everything they can. Isn’t that one of the core lessons to take away from the last year? As hacking becomes commoditized and the cost per attack shrinks, it becomes more profitable to cast a wide net, and everyone will become a target.
Re: OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
#186It 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.
How do you deal with auth/bot detection/captchas in that browser? That's where my agent consistently gets stuck