OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days

Post by AussieWog93 » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:49 PM UTC

wiseowise wrote: post #109

vessenes wrote: post #87

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https://www.getpanto.ai/blog/openclaw-ai-platform-statistics Because a solo dev has deployed to millions of people in less than eight months spending I believe zero dollars on marketing. We should all be so lucky to clown at this scale.

I'm sorry, where did you get millions of deployments? I see 300k+ Github stars, that have as much worth as a bookmarked page (why don't we count those too?). And 2 mil (alleged) website views, which is also moderately nothing.

Post by eieiie » Sat, May 16, 2026, 11:54 PM UTC

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> The economy doesn't work like how you think it does. Its not central planning. I'm aware. That is in fact my central critique. The way it works is incredibly wasteful of our limited resources, as illustrated by this guy burning through fuel during a time of crisis for no perceptible gain. > It shows lack of intellectual curiosity to not engage deeply with obviously profound technology and what the implications are.…

> The way it works is incredibly wasteful of our limited resources You should try playing the game “workers and resources”; it’s a simcity like game, but based in the Soviet system of central planning, not capitalism. It will make you loathe the inefficiencies in central planning.

Post by lxgr » Sun, May 17, 2026, 12:34 AM UTC

vntok wrote: post #130

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"All that automation allows us to run extremely lean" He has a different opinion of what it means to be lean than almost everyone else. That's fine, he's allowed to, but it's something you have to understand to make sense of any of his comments on things. He has a radically different set of values to most people.

His team is basically him and two other humans, powering an ambitious well-known project so successful an industry titan ended up acquihiring him/them. That's pretty lean, no?

Post by lxgr » Sun, May 17, 2026, 12:38 AM UTC

cedws wrote: post #133

vntok wrote: post #130

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His team is basically him and two other humans, powering an ambitious well-known project so successful an industry titan ended up acquihiring him/them. That's pretty lean, no?

What’s ambitious about it? It’s a chatbot that glues APIs together.

Post by lxgr » Sun, May 17, 2026, 12:41 AM UTC

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But it's a self fulfilling prophecy. They need all this stuff because it's a vibe coded app where bugs are randomly introduced, the architecture is overcomplicated and sucks, and stuff is just added for the fun of it. Do existing companies run entire end-to-end product integration tests on every single change they make to a repo to make sure something hasn't broken? No, they just architect things in a way such that a…

OpenClaw has surprisingly few "dumb" bugs. Is it as stable and secure as the Linux kernel? God no, obviously not. But it has never just crashed for me, for example. Bugs are of the type "X with Y and Z disabled and T turned on - doesn't work", where you're likely one of a few people that have ever tried this combination. Not to mention it can then debug itself and file a bug report, with a bugfix - if you give it a G…