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I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly en

I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is and how much of a moron every person is for not using it. Oddly enough, rarely, if ever do they say what specific things they're using it for and how it's saving them time. I remain interested in it, however, I've still awaiting an actual use case that can't be handled by some other tool/service that does it better/faster.

lyfeninja 6mo ago
I see a lot of the same. I do know a couple people who do use it and I asked their take and it was kind of "meh". I'm letting it mature a little before dipping my toe in. I've seem some horror stories, like it deleting repos, system files, and whatnot.
- SunshineTheCat 6mo ago
  That's pretty much where I'm at with it. I think once I see someone post a use case that I could actually see saving me some serious time, I'll take the plunge. Until then, I'll just let people continue to say how great (or terrible) it is.
chrisjj 6mo ago
> I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is People? Or bots.
gessha 6mo ago
Are these people crypto enthusiasts by any chance?
- esseph 6mo ago
  They were, and then blockchain, and then NFT.
pxc 6mo ago
Could this be a bit of a Dropbox moment? What it adds is making this kind of thing easy for normies, even if it's neither the best way to do things nor very difficult for hobbyists to do using existing tech. Maybe it's the wrong approach, maybe what people really want is more deterministic software that they use agents to help write. But this kind of thing can maybe serve as a prototyping phase for that. Perhaps in the future, people's assistants will offer to "solidify" frequently used workflows into software that minimizes or eliminates the LLM's role. For existing Claude Code users, its like "please just skip to that step! its cheaper and more secure and more reliable". But to many people who are interested in automation, perhaps that seems out of reach as a first step.
- anticorporate 6mo ago
  That's actually the best hypothesis I've heard to date. My immediate reaction to anything someone says they're using OpenClaw for is "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing, which would be better in every possible way." My approach to automation projects is just about the polar opposite of something like OpenClaw. How can I take this messy real-world thing and turn it into structured data? How can I build an API for the thing that doesn't have one? How can I define rules and configuration in a way that I can understand more about how something is working instead of less? How can I build a dashboard or other interface so I can see exactly the information I want to see instead of having to read a bunch of text? It wasn't really until people started building things with coding assistants that I even saw the value in LLMs, because I realized they could speed up the rate at which I can build tools for my team to get things OUT of chat and INTO structured data with clean interfaces and deterministic behavior.
  - BeetleB 6mo ago
    > "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing As a no-longer-Claw-user, hard disagree. The convenience is being able to ask it to do something while I'm grocery shopping and have it automatically test it etc. Sure, I can set up Claude Code or some other tool similarly, but the majority of us aren't going to take the time to set it up to do what OpenClaw does out of the box. I had OpenClaw do a lot of stuff for me in the 2-3 weeks I used it than I have with pi/Claude since I stopped using it.
drob518 6mo ago
Folks just pretending to be “influencers” and trying to cash in on the next big thing.
geoffmunn 6mo ago
We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP. It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows. So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.
- osakasaul 6mo ago
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azmz 6mo ago
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lyfeninja 6mo ago

I see a lot of the same. I do know a couple people who do use it and I asked their take and it was kind of "meh". I'm letting it mature a little before dipping my toe in. I've seem some horror stories, like it deleting repos, system files, and whatnot.

SunshineTheCat 6mo ago
That's pretty much where I'm at with it. I think once I see someone post a use case that I could actually see saving me some serious time, I'll take the plunge. Until then, I'll just let people continue to say how great (or terrible) it is.

chrisjj 6mo ago

> I see a decent number of people on social media who won't stop posting about how great it is People? Or bots.

gessha 6mo ago

Are these people crypto enthusiasts by any chance?

esseph 6mo ago
They were, and then blockchain, and then NFT.

pxc 6mo ago

Could this be a bit of a Dropbox moment? What it adds is making this kind of thing easy for normies, even if it's neither the best way to do things nor very difficult for hobbyists to do using existing tech. Maybe it's the wrong approach, maybe what people really want is more deterministic software that they use agents to help write. But this kind of thing can maybe serve as a prototyping phase for that. Perhaps in the future, people's assistants will offer to "solidify" frequently used workflows into software that minimizes or eliminates the LLM's role. For existing Claude Code users, its like "please just skip to that step! its cheaper and more secure and more reliable". But to many people who are interested in automation, perhaps that seems out of reach as a first step.

anticorporate 6mo ago
That's actually the best hypothesis I've heard to date. My immediate reaction to anything someone says they're using OpenClaw for is "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing, which would be better in every possible way." My approach to automation projects is just about the polar opposite of something like OpenClaw. How can I take this messy real-world thing and turn it into structured data? How can I build an API for the thing that doesn't have one? How can I define rules and configuration in a way that I can understand more about how something is working instead of less? How can I build a dashboard or other interface so I can see exactly the information I want to see instead of having to read a bunch of text? It wasn't really until people started building things with coding assistants that I even saw the value in LLMs, because I realized they could speed up the rate at which I can build tools for my team to get things OUT of chat and INTO structured data with clean interfaces and deterministic behavior.
- BeetleB 6mo ago
  > "That's great, but it would have taken the same amount of effort to ask your LLM to write a script to do the same thing As a no-longer-Claw-user, hard disagree. The convenience is being able to ask it to do something while I'm grocery shopping and have it automatically test it etc. Sure, I can set up Claude Code or some other tool similarly, but the majority of us aren't going to take the time to set it up to do what OpenClaw does out of the box. I had OpenClaw do a lot of stuff for me in the 2-3 weeks I used it than I have with pi/Claude since I stopped using it.

drob518 6mo ago

Folks just pretending to be “influencers” and trying to cash in on the next big thing.

geoffmunn 6mo ago

We're using OpenClaw to do a massive number of fixes and improvements to our ERP. It takes Jira tickets, resolves them, and creates a GitHub PR, which is then reviewed by another AI agent. It can even analyse screenshots with MS Paint-style arrows. So far it's been an amazing tool - I am very impressed.

osakasaul 6mo ago
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azmz 6mo ago

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