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Posted by kevincortes 1 day ago

OpenClaw had a rough week(openclaw.ai)
42 points | 68 commentspage 2
applfanboysbgon 1 day ago|
> we are building a real team around the project.

A real team? With humans? Meatbags? What do you need those for?

Imagine paying any amount of money for this unmaintainable slop, and then worse, paying a team to try to salvage the hundreds of thousands (or is it millions now?) of lines of never-read-before code. Guess it doesn't matter when it's monopoly money you're burning, though. Sam says AGI is achieved internally in 2025, Boris says software engineering is dead and that no human is writing code at Anthropic, Jarred says humans will be banned from contributing to open source projects, and while all these people are pissing on your face and telling you it's raining, when you open your eyes all you are left with is, in fact, a bunch of piss in your face.

grebc 1 day ago|
Not to be super cynical, but it’s mostly always been this way.

Super rich people are so divorced from reality the 99%(or pick whatever % you like really) experience.

applfanboysbgon 1 day ago||
The particularly annoying thing about the current hysteria is that people believe them. A huge portion of the economy is getting swept in large-scale fraud, hardware prices are 3x~5x higher, and there are no shortage of adherents who won't shut the fuck up about their imaginary revolution.
grebc 1 day ago||
This is definitely true, and I share that same frustration. I don’t understand why they don’t have their own watering holes tbh.
whalesalad 1 day ago||
Interesting. I hadn't touched my Openclaw install but just recently revived it, updated the software, and switched API keys to a different provider. Suddenly everything was completely broken. I kept messing with it, abandoned discord for IRC in an attempt to just get basic comms online, but it's still cooked. Now it makes sense.
bayarearefugee 1 day ago|
> everything was completely broken.

How could this happen in 2026? I've been told "Coding is solved"...?

falcor84 1 day ago|||
It seems pretty clear to me that "coding" as such is pretty much solved. It's just that software engineering isn't, and these advancements have put a spotlight on the difference between the two.
suttontom 1 day ago||
I know the bricklaying metaphor gets overused, but saying coding is solved and then seeing what kind of code ends up in CC or OpenClaw seems to me like building a retaining wall out of oddly shaped broken brick parts and wood and stones and saying building walls is solved. Technically it's a wall and can do what a wall does, so maybe who cares what went into it, but I wouldn't ever use it to keep earth from falling in and crushing my house. I'd hire experienced engineers and craftspeople.
falcor84 1 day ago||
I know it's a very controversial stance, but I'm of the full opinion that in a world where a codebase can be entirely automatically regenerated from a test suite, code style and "maintainability" become concepts with negative utility in anything beyond an artisinal project. And I think that what we'll need to define and stand behind is going to be just the test suite and other "boundary conditions".
whalesalad 1 day ago|||
to be fair I hadn't touched it in a month and didn't even look at changelogs or anything - just went bill o'reilly style.
hmokiguess 1 day ago||
For a moment I forgot openclaw was a thing, I thought we were done with it already.
esafak 1 day ago|
One can hope. At least I got a chuckle out of reading LTS and 'claw in the same sentence.
stavros 1 day ago||
That's why I designed my bot to have a very small core, with most other things being plugins, from the start. I also containerized everything and made it so the bot never sees API keys as well.

https://stavrobot.stavros.io if you're interested in the design decisions.

walrus01 1 day ago||
Can we vibe code a Firefox plugin that detects stereotypically LLM written verbiage and inserts a red warning banner across the top of any page load?
gnabgib 1 day ago|
You could just null-route this domain?

  0.0.0.0 openclaw.ai
LtdJorge 1 day ago||
This LLM writing style is getting obnoxious.
loloquwowndueo 1 day ago|
Yep but it’s entirely expected from the Openclaw project, the entire thing is a vibe coded mess waiting to explode.
asadm 1 day ago||
in the future the "html" will just be prompt used here and everyone's llm can render the blogpost how they usually like it.
echoangle 1 day ago||
That would also let us skip the

Keywords -> LLM prose -> LLM summary

Pipeline.

aselimov3 1 day ago||
Good luck with that. Imagine waiting 5 minutes for each website to be slopped out and barely work. Also having to pay 50 cents each time you load a site…
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DonHopkins 1 day ago|
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himata4113 1 day ago||
That "Post to HN" button feels pretty wild.
infraredshift 1 day ago|
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