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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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Post by throawayonthe »

jasonkester wrote: post #255
mjr00 wrote: post #121

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> It also feels like people are automating things that don't really need to be automated at all (do you really need to be reminded to make coffee?) I've posted about this before, I call it the Jarvis effect. > For years we had people trying to make voice agents, like Iron Man's Jarvis, a thing. You had people super bought into the idea that if you could talk to your computer and say "Jarvis, book me a flight from New…

Interestingly, your example is an actual thing we used to have. In 1996, I picked up the phone on my desk, dialed a 3 digit code, said “I need to fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, returning Wednesday evening”. A couple hours later, an envelope appeared in my inbox with plane tickets, rental car reservation and hotel reservation. Then every company in the world fired all the secretaries over the course of the nex…

if you've got that kind of money, that's absolutely still an option...

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

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Post by [deleted] »

adampunk wrote: post #298
blenderob wrote: post #185

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> 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?

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Post by skeledrew »

theshackleford wrote: post #282
skeledrew wrote: post #228

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It's not 1 SaaS product you're signing up for. It's dozens. And that's a job for the Claw.

> It's not 1 SaaS product you're signing up for. It's dozens. How so?

Because not even Amazon or Google offers every service that the typical user wants. One has to maintain accounts at a variety of places for email, office, automation, etc, etc.

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

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Post by samusiam »

BeetleB wrote: post #223
jcgl wrote: post #119

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Sure, that’s an interface that’s better for many users and use-cases. However, it seems better if you could, as much as is possible, move the AI stuff from runtime to “compile time.” Instead of having the AI do everything all the time, have AI configure your Zapier (or whatever) on your behalf. That way you can (ideally) get the best of both worlds: the reliability and predictability of classical software, combined w…

> Instead of having the AI do everything all the time, have AI configure your Zapier (or whatever) on your behalf. That is what many use OpenClaw for! The AI assistant will happily recommend existing services and help you (or itself, if you let it), set it up. (In theory. In practice, it often does a poor job). The appeal of OpenClaw is I don't need to go research all these possible solutions for different problems.…

But literally any decent agent can recommend existing services and help you set them up. And even help you help them set the services up for you. I do this with Claude all the time.

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Post by ithkuil »

skeledrew wrote: post #192
cluckindan wrote: post #127

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Engineering is the process of planning and implementing the simplest thing that works within given constraints. There is no planning, implementing, or constraint here.

Sounds like it's time for the "engineering" definition to get a modern update.

There is "engineering, the discipline", "engineering, the process", "engineering, the vocation, the career path, the learning process" (and many more). Each hat an engineer wears (based on age and context (has its peculiar aspects which might appear to be contradictory with other phases and not all people walked and thrived through all the phases.

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

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Post by jasonkester »

throawayonthe wrote: post #341
jasonkester wrote: post #255

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Interestingly, your example is an actual thing we used to have. In 1996, I picked up the phone on my desk, dialed a 3 digit code, said “I need to fly to Los Angeles on Tuesday morning, returning Wednesday evening”. A couple hours later, an envelope appeared in my inbox with plane tickets, rental car reservation and hotel reservation. Then every company in the world fired all the secretaries over the course of the nex…

if you've got that kind of money, that's absolutely still an option...

What kind of money are you referring to? When I placed that call, I was a junior engineer two years out of school earning $37,000 a year.

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Post by [deleted] »

informal007 wrote: post #85

Is there a place to show what users use OpenClaw in life or work? I’ve tried OpenClaw two weeks but don’t know what it can do for me. I let it to finish some project for me, but the most hard work for project is validating the results over giving instructions

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Post by xeonmc »

hinkley wrote: post #295
pennomi wrote: post #118

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Because the damage it causes is not intentional, but instead due to total incompetence.

Many viruses end up causing more damage than they mean to, via bugs.

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

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

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Post by bionaut »

throwyawayyyy wrote: post #281
butz wrote: post #251

So, how do I use this OpenClaw to automate actually useful things, like sweeping floor, washing dishes and doing laundry?

A lack of imagination on my part perhaps, but I can't think of anything I'd use it for which isn't either: 1) cheating myself and others of leisure (e.g. I suppose I could use it to fake-keep up with friends..? Or plan a holiday and book a load of stuff for me. But I like doing that!), 2) not feasible (loading and unloading the dishwasher, which is already the robot I used to wash dishes), 3) utterly insane (it's tax…

Think about how openclaw can automatically send email to book guests on your podcast that no one watches.

It is a game changer. It can even automatically send email to other people who have podcasts and youtube channels no one watches to come on your podcast no one watches and you can both discuss what a game changer openclaw is.

It can even then watch the podcasts for both of you so now you both have viewers!

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Post by bionaut »

silversmith wrote: post #10
sschueller wrote: post #7

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.

It is not lack of imagination, it is the lack of the social need for the performative aspect of an assistant.

There are all these douchebags that use to have to hire a human assistant in order to tell other douchebags that they have an assistant.

Now every wanna be douchebag can just get a mac mini. Of course, that is going to be super popular.

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