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Brook's law anno 2026: "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later -- unless that manpower is AI, then you're golden!"
That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.
> OpenClaw has nearly half a million lines of code, 53 config files, and over 70 dependencies. This breaks the basic premise of open source security. Chromium has 35+ million lines, but you trust Google’s review processes. Most open source projects work the other way: they stay small enough that many eyes can actually review them. Nobody has reviewed OpenClaw’s 400,000 lines. This reminds me of a very common thing po…
> OpenClaw has nearly half a million lines of code, 53 config files, and over 70 dependencies. This breaks the basic premise of open source security. Chromium has 35+ million lines, but you trust Google’s review processes. Most open source projects work the other way: they stay small enough that many eyes can actually review them. Nobody has reviewed OpenClaw’s 400,000 lines. This reminds me of a very common thing po…
Yeah, it’s pretty wild. Even pg is tweeting stuff like “An experienced programmer told me he's now using AI to generate a thousand lines of code an hour.“ https://x.com/paulg/status/2026739899936944495 Like if you had told pg to his face in (pre AI) office hours “I’m producing a thousand lines of code an hour”, I’m pretty sure he’d have laughed and pointed out how pointless that metric was?
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I did a cloc check on it and it does seem to have 800k lines of typescript. So unless they are vendoring dependencies it's actually as insane as it sounds.
Christ their repo is an absolute nightmare. There's new issues and PRs being posted practically every minute, and I assume 99% of them are from agents given the target demographic. Just full-auto vibeslop from all barrels 24/7. Even if we count the repos whole lifetime, including when it wasn't so active, the averages are still absurd. 96 days / (4,239+9,170) issues = one issue every 10 minutes 96 days / (5,082+10,22…
This doesn’t really feel like enough guardrails to prevent the type of problems we’ve seen so far. For example an agent in a single container which has access to an email inbox, can still do a lot of damage if that agent goes off the rails. We agree this agent should not be trusted, yet the ideas proposed as a solution are insufficient. We need a fundamentally different approach. Also and this is just my ignorance ab…
Exactly! I installed nanoclaw to try to out. What is kinda crazy is that any extension like discord connection is done using a skill. A skill is a markdown file written in English to provide a step by step guide to an ai agent on how to do something. Basically, the extensions are written by claude code on the fly. Every install of nanoclaw is custom written code. There is nothing preventing the AI Agent from modifyin…
As someone who only coding agents at work, can someone describe their use case for claw type agent? What do you do with it?
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That law (formulated in the 70s, I’ll remind the reader) wasn’t true for at least couple decades now.
Why not? What changed? It seems like a human factors thing. New people have to get up to speed. Doers become trainers.
One pathological example: if you’re running a server-based product, quite often what stands between you and a new feature launch is literally couple of thousands of lines of Kubernetes YAML. Would adding someone who’s proficient in Kubernetes slow you down? Of course not.
One may say, hey, this is just the server-side Kubernetes-based development being insane, and I’ll say, the whole modern business of software development is like this.
> OpenClaw has nearly half a million lines of code, 53 config files, and over 70 dependencies. This breaks the basic premise of open source security. Chromium has 35+ million lines, but you trust Google’s review processes. Most open source projects work the other way: they stay small enough that many eyes can actually review them. Nobody has reviewed OpenClaw’s 400,000 lines. This reminds me of a very common thing po…