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OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

There is none. It's just a way for coders to feel or be able to say they "work with AI" imo. Same with doing light wrapper coding to do agents stuff. The real AI work is on actual math and ML with the internet scale data, but only four big companies does that and this is the closest regular coders can get.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

#24

What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

There is a thread from February with more credible use cases from real users. As someone said, it does what everyone expected Siri to do by now.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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post #9

My React website can't star React on GitHub.

Not with that attitude it can't!

Now I have this terrible idea:

const openClawInstance = useOpenClaw(config);

Did anyone already vibe-code such silliness? If not, I want to give it a try.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

#26

What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

Separating fools from their money and data

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

#27

What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

I don't doubt that there are people using it for legitimate stuff, but I'd wager the vast majority just set it up for the hype and to feel in the "in crowd".

I set it up, and had it do a few things, then decided its too risky after seeing some of the drastic failures it had caused some people.

Sure I understand you can sandbox it and all, but even then I couldn't think of much stuff I wouldn't want to do myself just nor justify the cost to run it.

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

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The ruling party in East Germany always had 99% of the popular vote. Steinberger and his VC club on Twitter were so salty about HN not understanding his grand creation that something needed to be done.

Didn't they employ astro-turfing, too

Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

#30

What is an effective use case? I have set it up but I don't know what to do with it. Just a personal assistant (if you were to give it access to your stuff)? Mine is caged in a VLAN with only internet access.

I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.

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