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Why does OpenClaw have 800,000+ lines of code?? Isn't it just a connector for LLM APIs and other tools?
by lucrbvi 8mo ago
Why does OpenClaw have 800,000+ lines of code?? Isn't it just a connector for LLM APIs and other tools?
- zarzavat 8mo agoThey are probably counting dependencies. Also, it's vibe coded, what do you expect! I used to think that LLMs would replace humans but now I'm confident that I'll have a job in the future cleaning up slop. Lucky us.
- scandinavian 8mo agoI 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.
- jsheard 8mo agoChrist 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+10,221) pull requests = one PR every 9 minutes
- CrazyStat 8mo agoAt least nobody can accuse them of not dogfooding enough.
- mihaelm 8mo ago5000+ open PRs is pretty insane, that's the highest I've seen. How do you even keep track of this? We'll really need trust management systems like vouch (https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/tree/main https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/tree/main) for open source projects in the future to help with reducing noise.
- cap11235 8mo agoSee also yeggae's beads. Last I checked, it is a 275k line todo tracker.
- marginalia_nu 8mo agoFor comparison, the C++ and rust code in the ladybird browser is about 573,000 lines of code.
- re-thc 8mo ago> Why does OpenClaw have 800,000+ lines of code?? Because I write like this -- signed AI
- paxys 8mo agoI assume it is mostly or entirely written by AI, so that tracks.