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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by oytis » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:24 PM UTC

i-blis wrote: post #165

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving…

I don't think it's about power. I feel more empowered as an engineer than I would as an engineering manager. As an engineer I have the power over all the intricate details of how systems work. As an engineering manager if I am lucky I would get to decide whom to fire if my team's budget gets a cut.

I think it's that there is only that much demand for solving really complex problems, and doing the same thing over and over is boring, so management is the only way forward for many people

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by forty » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:25 PM UTC

politelemon wrote: post #51

> Thank you, AGI—for me, it’s already here. Poe's law strikes... I can't tell if this is satire.

Wow, I re read after reading your comment and now I'm fairly sure the whole post is humourous ^^

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by coldtea » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:26 PM UTC

spoaceman7777 wrote: post #164

This was incredibly vague and a waste of time. What type of code? What types of tools? What sort of configuration? What messaging app? What projects? It answers none of these questions.

It's AI slop itself. It seems inevitable that any AI enthusiast ends up having AI write their advocacy too.

I just give the link to those posts to my AI to read it, if it's not worth a human writing it, it's not worth a human reading it.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by yusuf288 » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

i-blis wrote: post #165

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving…

It's human nature.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Stonecutter

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by topheroo » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:27 PM UTC

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…

To be fair, AI probably wrote the blog post from a short prompt, which would explain the lack of detail.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by frank_nitti » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:28 PM UTC

WillPostForFood wrote: post #160

Maxion wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A lot of more senior coders when they actively try vibe coding a greenfield project find that it does actually work. But only for the first ~10kloc. After that the AI, no matter how well you try to prompt it, will start to destroy existing features accidentally, will add unnecessary convoluted logic to the code, will leave benhind dead code, add random traces "for backwards compatibility", will avoid doing the correc…

Don't you think it has gotten an order of magnitude better in the last 1-2 years? If it only requires another an order of magnitude improvement to full-on replace coders, how long do you think that will take?

Who is liable for the runtime behavior of the system, when handling users’ sensitive information?

If the person who is liable for the system behavior cannot read/write code (as “all coders have been replaced”), does Anthropic et al become responsible for damages to end users for systems its tools/models build? I assume not.

How do you reconcile this? We have tools that help engineers design and build bridges, but I still wouldn’t want to drive on an “autonomously-generated bridge may contain errors. Use at own risk” because all human structural engineering experts have been replaced.

After asking this question many times in similar threads, I’ve received no substantial response except that “something” will probably resolve this, maybe AI will figure it out

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by darepublic » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:29 PM UTC

These days it feels like there is a ton of pro anthropic astroturfing on this site. Probably it is mostly genuine enthusiasm from sincere people. But nevertheless there are a ton of articles from or about anthropic and within the comments of these you are sure to find, often at the top, someone staunchly defending the superiority of engineering everything via agentic use of the in fashion Claude model. If they are truly right than I don't see the need for proselytizing like they do. The proof is in the pudding. That is, if your choices are truly the best and fastest way to produce software inevitably the market and industry will reflect this. But it feels like they don't want to let results speak for themselves they need to hype up their claims continually and forcibly shove this down people's throats

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by Onavo » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:31 PM UTC

i-blis wrote: post #165

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving…

For many people, code is just a means to an end to solve problems and build. The joy from solving problems doesn't disappear. Would you use traditional (not WebAssembly) assembly to build a web application? Probably not. LLMs make a lot more sense if you think of it as a tool to translate requirements into solutions.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by bakugo » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:32 PM UTC

spoaceman7777 wrote: post #164

This was incredibly vague and a waste of time. What type of code? What types of tools? What sort of configuration? What messaging app? What projects? It answers none of these questions.

There is no code, there are no tools, there is no configuration, and there are no projects.

This is an AI generated post likely created by going to chatgpt.com and typing in "write a blogpost hyping up [thing] as the next technological revolution", like most tech blog content seems to be now. None of those things ever existed, the AI made them up to fulfill the request.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by Onavo » Sun, Feb 08, 2026, 5:34 PM UTC

sph wrote: post #151

Inityx wrote: post #4

> My answer is: become a “super manager.” Honestly I'd rather die

"and then the engineers turned themselves into managers, funniest thing I've ever seen"

> Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike. No question, now, what had happened to the faces of the pigs. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.