GitHub has a bot problem: https://github.com/trending
Anthropic giving away Claude if you get 5000 stars doesn't help either
OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
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Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#102I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
this reads like “I don’t know why people are using instant messengers when you can just do SMS”
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#103Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#104I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
> Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade) Two decades! It will be 20 this April. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automator_(macOS) Though technically it’s deprecated in favour of the clusterfuck of bugs and limitations that is Shortcuts. But you’re right, OpenClaw seems to be another fad being used mostly by “influencers” and “thought leaders” to show how awesome and productive they are at… Writing bl…
Man, I can't believe it's been that long. I remember buying Photoshop plugins for Automator that did a bunch of resizing/refinements/watermarking.
I'm guessing a lot of that is built in to photoshop now, but I have always been surprised how few people seemed to use it with how much it could do.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#105Earlier quoted context omitted.
__ but everyone knows about facebook though __ React popularity is also a phenomenon closely tied to popularity of the fb
Maybe for the first 2-3 years. The association to Meta is barely mentioned (even on the official page) nowadays.
My impression is react is almost thought of more as a Vercel project these days
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#106What 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…
Do you really need an AI agent to reboot a computer?
This takes maybe 10 minutes to write a script for…
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#107I'm tempted not to use it to control everything, but install it on my mac and give it access to keyboard maestro macros and that's it
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#108Wonder how much of that is contributed by bot/farm accounts. The creator certainly has the means. EDIT: I should mention, I'm talking about the initial growth / traction.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#109I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
You're right that you probably don't need a notification to make coffee, but people are using it to create automations in Home Assistant so that it actually makes coffee for them.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#110I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
Patterns i keep seeing: Once you get the dopamine hit of having an ai assistant do something in the real world it becomes an hammer you want to use on everything Instead of being a problem solver you start to become a problem hunter, and you invent them in order to solve them
Isn’t that a general engineering problem?