alt Hacker NewsThe root issue is that OpenClaw is 500K+ lines of vibe coded bloat that's impossible to reason about or understand.
Too much focus on shipping features, not enough attention to stability and security.
As the code base grows exponentially, so does the security vulnerability surface.
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williamstein • last Friday at 6:44 PM
The current OpenClaw GitHub repo [1] contains 2.1 million lines of code, according to cloc, with 1.6M being typescript. It also has almost 26K commits.
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earnesti • last Friday at 6:49 PM
There are like 10 openclaw clones out there. If you prefer security over features, just pick up another one.
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