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OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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Re: OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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Fully agree with your comment regarding real processes. Being a Six Sigma Black Belt, studying processes and reducing the errors is critical. The Openclaw processes at the moment scare me.

Make a skill.md called six sigma black belt audit refactor and publish it

That's actually a great idea!!

Re: OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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I'm using openclaw as a personal development bot, which is pretty useful. It pings me throughout the day using crons to complete tasks and follows up on them. But aside from that, it is a very unreliable piece of software. I'm constantly having to fix it, or track down correct configurations. It can just decide to randomly edit it's own config, uses incorrect json keys and then the whole thing is dead. Or it blows th…

Amen. I love the concept but I've never hosted such a terrible piece of software. Every update breaks something new or introduces another "anti-feature" that's enabled by default. The documentation is often lagging behind and the changelog has such a low signal to noise ratio that you need a LLM to figure out what upgrading will break this time. For now I've just given up on updates and I've been patching bugs direct…

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Re: OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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As long as there's no solution to the long-term memory problem, we will have a "country of geniuses in a data center" that are all suffering from anterograde amnesia (movie: Memento), which requires human hand-holding. I have experimented with a lot of hacks, like hierarchies of indexed md files, semantic DBs, embeddings, dynamic context retrieval, but none of this is really a comprehensive solution to get something…

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Re: OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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As long as there's no solution to the long-term memory problem, we will have a "country of geniuses in a data center" that are all suffering from anterograde amnesia (movie: Memento), which requires human hand-holding. I have experimented with a lot of hacks, like hierarchies of indexed md files, semantic DBs, embeddings, dynamic context retrieval, but none of this is really a comprehensive solution to get something…

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Re: OpenClaw’s memory is unreliable, and you don’t know when it will break

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This is essentially a 140-IQ analyst you can text "please fix" at 3:00 AM without the shit you have to deal with when hosting your stuff locally. The context awareness across your text messages, emails, and between chats is not half bad; just wish that the "computer use" feature set was fully locked in so I can automate half the apps on my phone.
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