alt Hacker NewsAsk HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
I don't use it personally, and neither does anyone in my circle...even though I feel like I'm super plugged into the ai world
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No it's slop and most of the hype was manufactured marketing. It has 0 utility, and any perceived utility you can build yourself easily
Yes. They are all lobsters.
Looking at the comments here, it appears people are trying to do too much, too soon, which inevitably backfires. The key is to put OC in a sandbox (don't give access to your real accounts, it must have ints own separate non-admin accounts for everything only "invite" with limited access as you would a contractor) and generally treat it as a new employee during a trial period. You'll be surprised by how effective it can be if you pace yourself.
As for "you can easily do X,Y,Z with a cron job" we tech people often underestimate what hiding the complexity could do for UX.
"For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem." -- top comment on "Show HN, Dropbox (2007)
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