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OpenClaw is changing my life

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Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#92

The post mentions discussing projects with Claude via voice, but it isn't clear exactly how. Do they just mean sending voice memos via Whatsapp, the basic integration that you can get with OpenClaw? (That isn't really "discussing".) Or is this a full blown Eleven Labs conversational setup (or Parakeet, Voxtral, or whatever people are using?) I'm not running OpenClaw, but I've given Claude its own email address and bu…

Openclaw is just that, it wakes on send and as cronjobs and get to work.

What made it so popular I think is that it made it easy to attach it to whatever "channel" you're comfortable with. The mac app comes with dictation, but unsure the amount of setup to get tts back.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#93

These are the same people who a few years ago made blogposts about their elaborate Notion (or Roam "Research") setups, and how it catalyzed them to... *checks notes* create blogposts about their elaborate Notion setups!

Quite literally, the previous post on this blog is from 2024 talking about what a revolution the Rabbit R1 is. We all know how that turned out. This is why I give every new trendy developer tool a few months to see if it’s really a good thing or just hype.

> Generally, I believe R1 has the potential to change the world.

oh man this is fantastic

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#94
post #9

This is quite a low quality post. There is nothing of substance here. Just hot air. The only software I've seen designed and implemented by OpenClaw is moltbook. And I think it is hard to come up with a bigger pile of crap than Moltbook. If somebody can build something decent with OpenClaw, that would help add some credibility to the OpenClaw story.

I was reading the post and had the same feeling of superficiality. I don’t think a human wrote it tbh

Very likely part of their bots output. The ultimate goal isn’t to make useful things, but to “teach” others how to do it and convince them how successful they can become.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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post #78

These are the same people who a few years ago made blogposts about their elaborate Notion (or Roam "Research") setups, and how it catalyzed them to... *checks notes* create blogposts about their elaborate Notion setups!

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Don't use quotes to make it seem like someone said something they didn't.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#96

These are the same people who a few years ago made blogposts about their elaborate Notion (or Roam "Research") setups, and how it catalyzed them to... *checks notes* create blogposts about their elaborate Notion setups!

Don't forget about Obsidian

Obsidian is local first with basically zero lock-in, and it's heavily community driven. Don't lump it in with Notion.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#97
post #16

The same author had good things to say about the R1, a device you generally won't see many glowing reviews about. ( https://reorx.com/blog/rabbit-r1-the-upgraded-replacement-fo... ) Maybe it's unfair to judge an author's current opinion by their past opinion - but since the piece is ultimately an opinion based on their own experience I'm going to take it along a giant pile of salt that the author's standards for the…

Hah, I read that as well and made a big "hmmmmmmmmm" sound... The last time I talked to someone about OpenClaw and how it is helping them, they told me it tells them what their calendar has for them today or auto-tweets for them (i.e., non-human spam). The first is as simple as checking your calendar, and the second is blatant spam. Anyone found some good use cases beyond a better interface for AI code assistance?

Not via OpenClaw, but I automate breakdowns of my analytics and I recently started getting digests of social media conversations relevant to my interests. It's also good for monitoring services and doing first line triage on issues.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#98
I want an OpenClaw that can find and call a carpenter, a plumber when I need him; take appointment for all the medical stuff (I do most of that online), pays the bills and make me a nice alarm when there's something wrong, order train tickets and book hotel when I need to.

That would be really helpful.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

#99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Don't forget about Obsidian

Obsidian is local first with basically zero lock-in, and it's heavily community driven. Don't lump it in with Notion.

True, but it does have the cottage industry of influencers selling their vault skeleton and template/plugin packs for unlocking maximum productivity… same as notion. And Evernote, to an extent, before that.

Re: OpenClaw is changing my life

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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…

A lot of more senior coders when they actively try vibe coding a greenfield project find that it does actually work. But only for the first ~10kloc. After that the AI, no matter how well you try to prompt it, will start to destroy existing features accidentally, will add unnecessary convoluted logic to the code, will leave benhind dead code, add random traces "for backwards compatibility", will avoid doing the correc…

I agree with you in part, but I think the market is going to shift so that you won’t so many need “mega projects”. More and more, projects will be small and bespoke, built around what the team needs or answering a single question rather than forcing teams to work around an established, dominant solution.
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