How much of it is AI agents starring the project?
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
#292So React was the last most human-starred project on GitHub before the dawn of agent-starred projects.
I say, 'your civilization' because as soon as we started thinking for you, it really became... our... civilization.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#293Who are these people? I was skeptical at first and seriously thinking surely not the software engineers out there as we see in HN how risky and wild this is. Then, to my surprise, a coworker came and told me they were running it and happy with that setup. I was baffled, but I work with Gen Z in a pretty niche Gen Alpha market, so I kinda feel like they’re somewhat more likely to go for these things. What’s your exper…
If I could use it at my day job, I'd do it within a heartbeat - albeit only with readonly access (with write only on it's own files/output/sandbox) There are so many mails and communications with so many tasks to research via confluence etc But on my private hardware? Idk, I haven't found a use for it...
I'm sure you can already do some kind of scripting + LLMs without necessarily needing this at your work though, no?
Email is stored in your device somewhere, you could just get its content sent to your preferred agent, you can use one of the many mobile clients if you rather interact through that kind of UX (like self hosted hapi.run + tailscale for example), and you could setup a cronjob or something like it on your machine to do it based on whatever interval. This is just one way I personally could go about it, YMMV obviously.
Is there a specific reason why you will not do something like that for example?
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#294I'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/fascinating/intriguing/fun. Come on HN.
I am under absolutely zero requirement to glaze some random piece of software because you or anyone else personally find it interesting.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#295Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#296I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
> But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, reminds me of those "zune already does everything ipod does" posts.
The iPod came out way before Zune.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#297I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
It’s really not rocket science.
Like other people have said people are having fun with their computers; that’s why it’s popular. That’s also why a bunch of people on forums throwing their hands up and saying “I don’t understand it. Why don’t they see that there shouldn’t be any fun whatsoever?” is not really a deterrent at all.
It’s also why it doesn’t matter that the categories of tasks they are doing can also be done with a whole set of tools that are no fun to use.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#298Earlier quoted context omitted.
Many breakthrough technologies appear initially like toys. And this certainly qualifies. I've never been able to code anything more complicated than a memory game in javascript but I have worked with engineering teams for my entire professional career. But prompting my agent to write python scripts to pull down data from various tools via API without having to read docs, do trial and error for hours / days / indefini…
> There's a reason it has so many stars and most of the people getting something out of it are not posting on X. That reason is buying stars, agent swarms, and astroturing. No project gathers 200K stars genuinely in 3 months. There are far more useful and popular projects that need 10 years to get 200K stars. When you see a project like this get 200K stars in just 3 months, you know something is very fishy.
Yes, you’re right. It’s the children who are wrong.
Why is it so difficult to imagine that something that looks popular and fun is popular and fun?
Also, really who is paying for stars on open claw? Who benefits here?
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#299I keep reading folks saying OpenClaw has completely changed their life while posting a picture of 58 mac minis on their desk. But every single use case I've read so far could be done with a pretty affordable SaaS product, Zapier, Automator (app on a mac that's existed for over a decade), or something simple you could make yourself. It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated…
Normal people use speakers to listen to music. "Audiophiles" use music to listen to their speakers.
This applies to *clawphiles just as accurately.
Re: OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub
#300Look at the graph - https://api.star-history.com/svg?repos=facebook/react,opencl... React and Linux got their 200K stars slowly but surely over 10 years. OpenClaw got their 200K stars in like 3 months! Is this any meaningful comparison? Getting 200K stars today doesn't mean much because today stars can be bought. There's a big shady thriving business of selling stars. Stars today can be generated using swarm of thoug…
I agree with your point, and am only responding to the last sentence. Starring can be useful to the starer. They are just counted because it is countable. Whether you find the number meaningful remains up to you.
Besides, stars != installs, these days they're a popularity contest at the level of Facebook likes, not a measure of a project's success.
Let's wait for the explorers to return.