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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by mathisfun123 »

izacus wrote: post #107
dumbmrblah wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree with you in part, but I think the market is going to shift so that you won’t so many need “mega projects”. More and more, projects will be small and bespoke, built around what the team needs or answering a single question rather than forcing teams to work around an established, dominant solution.

How much are you willing to bet on this outcome and what metrics are you going to measure it with when we come to collect in 3 years?

This is the way: make every one of these people with their wild ass claims put their money where their mouths are.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by teratron27 »

bwb wrote: post #16
necklesspen wrote: post #8

The same author had good things to say about the R1, a device you generally won't see many glowing reviews about. ( https://reorx.com/blog/rabbit-r1-the-upgraded-replacement-fo... ) Maybe it's unfair to judge an author's current opinion by their past opinion - but since the piece is ultimately an opinion based on their own experience I'm going to take it along a giant pile of salt that the author's standards for the…

Hah, I read that as well and made a big "hmmmmmmmmm" sound... The last time I talked to someone about OpenClaw and how it is helping them, they told me it tells them what their calendar has for them today or auto-tweets for them (i.e., non-human spam). The first is as simple as checking your calendar, and the second is blatant spam. Anyone found some good use cases beyond a better interface for AI code assistance?

A dev on my team was trying to get us to setup OpenClaw, harping on about how it would make our lives easier etc, etc. (even though most of the team was against the idea due to the security issues and just not thinking it would be worth it).

Their example use case was for it to read and summarize our Slack alerts channel to let us know if we had any issues by tagging people directly... the Slack channel is populated by our monitoring tools that also page the on-call dev for the week.

The kicker... this guy was the on-call dev that week and had just been ignoring the Slack channel, emails and notifications he was getting!

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by podgorniy »

wiz21c wrote: post #98

I want an OpenClaw that can find and call a carpenter, a plumber when I need him; take appointment for all the medical stuff (I do most of that online), pays the bills and make me a nice alarm when there's something wrong, order train tickets and book hotel when I need to. That would be really helpful.

> find and call a carpenter, a plumber when I need him

Good luck hoping that none from the big money would try to stand between you and someone giving you a service (uber, airbnb, etsy, etc) and get rent from that.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by throwup238 »

tartoran wrote: post #110
spaceywilly wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Quite literally, the previous post on this blog is from 2024 talking about what a revolution the Rabbit R1 is. We all know how that turned out. This is why I give every new trendy developer tool a few months to see if it’s really a good thing or just hype.

Maybe that's why these users go crazy over openclaw, they may need or yearn for such a tool. I don't but that doesn't mean there isn't a market for it though.

There isn’t a market. OP wrote that Rabbit R1 post after seeing the release video (according to a comment on this link, their blog post says otherwise) and immediately called it a ”milestone in the evolution of our digital organ”. Their judgement is obviously nonexistent.

Something tells me they never even downloaded OpenClaw before writing this blog post. It’s probably an aspirational vision board type post their life coach told them to write because they kept talking about OepnClaw during their sessions, and the life coach got tired of their BS.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by charles_f »

> My role as the programmer responsible for turning code into reality hasn’t changed

> OpenClaw gave me the chance to become that super manager [...] A manager shouldn’t get bogged down in the specifics—they should focus on the higher-level, abstract work

These two propositions seem to be highly incompatible

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by thewhitetulip »

jruz wrote: post #24

I admire the people that can live happily in the ignorance of what’s under the hood, in this case not even under the layer of claude code because that was too much aparently so people are now putting openclaw+telegram on top of that. And me ruining my day fighting with a million hooks, specs and custom linters micromanaging Claude Code in the pursuit of beautiful code.

It's absolutely terrifying that Ai will control everything in your PC using openclaw. How are people ok with it?!

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by sathish316 »

veganmosfet wrote: post #84
mcintyre1994 wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don’t think there’s any solution to what SimonW calls the lethal trifecta with it, so I’d say that’s still pretty impossible. I saw on The Verve that they partnered with the company that repeatedly disclosed security vulnerabilities to try to make skills more secure though which is interesting: https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership I’m guessing most of that malware was really obvious, people just weren’t…

Regarding prompt injection: it's possible to reduce the risk dramatically by: 1. Using opus4.6 or gpt5.2 (frontier models, better safety). These models are paranoid. 2. Restrict downstream tool usage and permissions for each agentic use case (programmatically, not as LLM instructions). 3. Avoid adding untrusted content in "user" or "system" channels - only use "tool". Adding tags like "Warning: Untrusted content" can…

Anyone who thinks they can avoid LLM Prompt injection attacks should be asked to use their email and bank accounts with AI browsers like Comet.

A Reddit post with white invisible text can hijack your agent to do what an attacker wants. Even a decade or 2 back, SQL injection attacks used to require a lot of proficiency on the attacker and prevention strategies from a backend engineer. Compare that with the weak security of so called AI agents that can be hijacked with random white text on an email or pdf or reddit comment

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by hackermeows »

been writing code for 15 years now , agree with the author about this one , open-claw like agents are going to be the future. Already automated away a bunch of routine stuff like checkin FB marketplace if l’m looking to but something , daily stock position brief , calendar management , grocery planning and buying , workout and calorie tracking . Stopped using a bunch of app directly overnight . The “mid-wits” are the one with their head still stuck under that sand

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by ImPostingOnHN »

DeathArrow wrote: post #43
gyomu wrote: post #18

> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects > This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their aut…

>Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their author is supposedly building with AI. Maybe they don't feel like sharing yet another half working Javascript Sudoku Solver or yet another half working AI tool no one will ever use? Probably they feel amazed about what they accomplished but they feel the public won't feel the same.

The article made it seem that the tool made them into the manager of a successful company, rather than the author of a half finished pet project
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