Why is everything in lowercase?
sam altman types like this, so this is what is cool to the agi believers.
A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
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Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#22There is only so much damage a human assistant can do.
But an AI assistant can do so much more damage in a short space of time.
It probably won't go wrong, but when it does go wrong you will feel immense pain.
I will keep low productivity in exchange for never having to deal with the fallout.
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#23> in theory, clawdbot could drain my bank account. this makes a lot of people uncomfortable (me included, even now).
Yeah this sounds totally sane!
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#24I just can't get over how none of this is new. 6 months ago I was running "summarize my work" tasks using linear and github mcps
just using a cron task and claude code. The hype around openclaw is wild
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#25Just weeks ago, the sentiment was such that developers would be managing AI workers. Now, it seems that AI will be managing the developers.
Or more : https://rentahuman.ai/
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#26Tangent: what is the appeal of the “no capitalization” writing style? I never know what message the author is intending to convey when I see all lower case.
Normally I can ignore it, but the font on this blog makes it hard to distinguish where sentences start and end (the period is very small and faint).
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#27> amongst smart people i know there's a surprisingly high correlation between those who continue to be unimpressed by AI and those who use a hobbled version of it. I've noticed this too, and I think it's a good thing: much better to start using the simplest forms and understand AI from first principles rather than purchase the most complete package possible without understanding what is going on. The cranky ones on H…
(Disclaimer: systems software developer with 30+ years experience)
I was initially overly optimistic about AI and embraced it fully. I tried using it on multiple projects - and while the initial results were impressive, I quickly burned my fingers as I got it more and more integrated with my workflow. I tried all the things, last year. This year, I'm being a lot more conservative about it.
Now .. I don't pay for it - I only use the bare bones versions that are available, and if I have to install something, I decline. Web-only ... for now.
I simply don't trust it well enough, and I already have a disdain for remotely-operated software - so until it gets really, really reliable, predictable and .. just downright good .. I will continue to use it merely as an advanced search engine.
This might be myopic, but I've been burned too many times and my projects suffered as a result of over-zealous use of AI.
It sure is fun watching what other folks are daring to accomplish with it, though ..
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#28Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#29Do you mean “bullish”?
"a bull case" gets lots of google results, so it seems to be a commonly used construction amongst analysts. Basically it means "The case that OpenClaw will develop as a bull".
"bullish" seems more common in tech circles ("I'm bullish on this") but it's also used elsewhere.
Re: A sane but bull case on Clawdbot / OpenClaw
#30I'm still trying to understand what makes this project worthy of like 100K Github stars overnight. What's the secret sauce? Is it just that it has a lot of integrations? Like what makes this so much more successful than the ten thousand other AI agent projects?
It's set up to wake up periodically and work autonomously for you based on the broad instructions it's been given. Compared to the usual coding agent workloads, this makes it a lot more "assistant"-like.