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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by osullivj »

nbaksalyar wrote: post #332
mancerayder wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't you get bored with spending many years learning and becoming advanced or an expert in a system paradigm (like different hosting systems), a programming language (i.e. Perl), or a framework (pick your JS framework), only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later? And then in a job interview, when you try to sell yourself on your wisdom as expert on thing X, new to Y, they dismiss you because the 25 year…

> only to have it completely obsoleted a few years later Not really. There aren’t as many fundamentally new ideas in modern tech as it may seem. Web servers have existed for more than 30 years and haven’t changed that much since then. Or e.g., React + Redux is pretty much the same thing as WinProc from WinAPI - invented some time in ~1990. Before Docker, there were Solaris Zones and FreeBSD jails. TCP/IP is 50 years…

Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by andrethegiant »

topheroo wrote: post #175
gyomu wrote: post #18

> it completely transformed my workflow, whether it’s personal or commercial projects > This has truly freed up my productivity, letting me pursue so many ideas I couldn’t move forward on before If you're writing in a blog post that AI has changed your life and let you build so many amazing projects, you should link to the projects. Somehow 90% of these posts don't actually link to the amazing projects that their aut…

To be fair, AI probably wrote the blog post from a short prompt, which would explain the lack of detail.

This is 100% the case.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by hadlock »

colechristensen wrote: post #400
tunesmith wrote: post #397

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I guess this is another example - I literally have not experienced what you described in... several weeks, at least.

I often ask for big things. For example I'm working on some virtualization things where I want a machine to be provisioned with a few options of linux distros and BSDs. In one prompt I asked for this list to be provisioned so a certain test of ssh would complete, it worked on it for several hours and now we're doing the code review loop. At first it gave up on the BSDs and I had to poke it to actually finish with an…

I usually talk with the agent back and forth for 15 min, explicitly ask, "what corner cases do we need to consider, what blind spots do I have?" And then when I feel like I've brain vomited everything + send some non-sensitive copy and paste and ask it for a CLAUDE/AGENTS.md and that's sufficient to one-shot 98% of cases

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by Dylan16807 »

rafabulsing wrote: post #364
philipwhiuk wrote: post #307

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It's like CGP Grey hosting a productivity podcast despite his productivity almost certainly going down over time. It's the appearance of productivity, not actual productivity.

I always find that characterization of Grey and the Cortex podcast to be weird. He never claims to be a productivity master or the most productive person around. Quite the opposite, he has said multiple times how much he is not naturally productive, and how he actually kinda dislikes working in general. The systems and habits are the ways he found to essentially trick himself into working. Which I think is what peopl…

> Which I think is what people gather from him, but somehow think he's hiding it or pretending is not the case? Which I find strange, given how openly he's talked about it.

Well the person you're responding to didn't say anything like that. They're saying he's unqualified.

> The systems and habits are the ways he found to essentially trick himself into working.

And do they work? If he's failing or fooling himself then a big chunk of his podcasting is wasting everyone's time.

> videos getting bigger scopes and production values

I looked at a video from last year and one from eight years ago and they're pretty similar in production value. Lengths seem similar over time too.

> moving some of his time into some not so publicly visible ventures

I can see he's done three members-only videos in the last two years, in addition to four and a half public videos. Is there anything else?

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by mnky9800n »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

I like it because it lets me shoot off a text about making a plot I think about on the bus connecting some random data together. It’s nice having Claude code essentially anywhere. I do think that this is a nice big increment because of that. But also it suffers the large code base problems everyone else complains about. Tbh I think if its context window was ten times bigger this would be less of an issue. Usually compacting seems to be when it starts losing the thread and I have to redirect it.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by tunesmith »

hadlock wrote: post #434
colechristensen wrote: post #400

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I often ask for big things. For example I'm working on some virtualization things where I want a machine to be provisioned with a few options of linux distros and BSDs. In one prompt I asked for this list to be provisioned so a certain test of ssh would complete, it worked on it for several hours and now we're doing the code review loop. At first it gave up on the BSDs and I had to poke it to actually finish with an…

I usually talk with the agent back and forth for 15 min, explicitly ask, "what corner cases do we need to consider, what blind spots do I have?" And then when I feel like I've brain vomited everything + send some non-sensitive copy and paste and ask it for a CLAUDE/AGENTS.md and that's sufficient to one-shot 98% of cases

Yeah I usually ask what open questions it has, versus when it thinks it is ready to implement.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by sutterd »

aeldidi wrote: post #298

There's an odd trend with these sorts of posts where the author claims to have had some transformative change in their workflow brought upon by LLM coding tools, but also seemingly has nothing to show for it. To me, using the most recent ChatGPT Codex (5.3 on "Extra High" reasoning), it's incredibly obvious that while these tools are surprisingly good at doing repetitive or locally-scoped tasks, they immediately fall…

I’m working on a solo project, a location-based game platform that includes games like Pac-Man you play by walking paths in a park. If I cut my coding time to zero, that might make me go two or three times faster. There is a lot of stuff that is not coding. Designing, experimenting, testing, redesigning, completely changing how I do something, etc. There is a lot more to doing a project than just coding. I am seeing a big speed up, but that doesn’t mean I can complete the project in a week. (These projects are never really a completed anyway, until you give up on it).

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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Post by xXSLAYERXx »

i-blis wrote: post #165

I have always failed to understand the obsessive dream of many engineers to become managers. It seems not to have to do merely with an increase in revenue. Is it really to escape from "getting bogged down in the specifics" and being able to "focus on the higher-level, abstract work", to quote OP's words? I thought naively that engineering always has been about dealing with the specifics and the joy of problem solving…

> My guess is that the drive is toward power

Not really for me. Programming is an effort type job. The more effort you put in the more you get out. True in other professions sure but multiplied with dev work. When became a dad everything changed. Solve hard problem or spend time with kid. I couldn't juggle the two. So i made a choice and fortunately had an opportunity to move into management.

Anyway full circle now I'm back to being a dev and this go around couldn't be easier with our ai agents. Point is I went into management because I was forced, not at all for power.

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