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> 41,964 commits is a lot more than "a month of greenfield work". I meant a month for the initial release, not current state. Regardless, much like lines of c
by mjr00 5mo ago
> 41,964 commits is a lot more than "a month of greenfield work".
I meant a month for the initial release, not current state.
Regardless, much like lines of code, number of commits is not a good metric, not even as a proxy, for how much "work" was actually done. Quickly browsing there are plenty[0] of[1] really[2] small[3] commits[4]. Agentic coding naturally optimizes for small commits because that's what the process is meant to do, but it doesn't mean that more work is being done, or that the work is effective. If anything, looking at the changelog[5] OpenClaw feels like a directionless dumpster fire right now. I would expect a lot more from a project if it had multiple people working on it for 5 years, pre-AI.
[0] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/e43ae8e8cd1ffc07d60cfd311f33995b0c01eb8c https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/e43ae8e8cd1ffc07...
[1] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/377c69773f0a1b8e6926fa5a2135199f794184e5 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/377c69773f0a1b8e...
[2] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/ffafa9008da249a07b2950d5747503d551a6e3da https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/ffafa9008da249a0...
[3] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/506b0bbaad3124545e161c9eaa3eca9cf0284c43 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/506b0bbaad312454...
[4] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/512f777099eb19dfd1d7e07666ddda64e6bc0d28 https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/512f777099eb19df...
[5] https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/blob/main/CHANGELOG.md
- simonw 5mo agoThat's why my original comment said: > (Whether or not you trust the quality of the software you can't deny the impact it had in such a short time. It defined a new category of software.) I brought up OpenClaw here because the challenge was: > we still have no companies compressing 10 years into 1 year thus exploding past all the incumbents who don't "get it".