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by sschueller10 hours ago |
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upvoteby qoez10 hours ago|
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There is none. It's just a way for coders to feel or be able to say they "work with AI" imo. Same with doing light wrapper coding to do agents stuff. The real AI work is on actual math and ML with the internet scale data, but only four big companies does that and this is the closest regular coders can get.
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upvoteby moffkalast8 hours ago|
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Could be a psyops by Anthropic to make people waste Claude tokens and rack up a massive bill.
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upvoteby dg2fgfg7 hours ago|
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Tokens generated is a nice metric that they really care about.
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upvoteby silversmith10 hours ago|
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I guess we are just boring and/or unimaginative. I don't get that many communications per day to require an abstraction level between me and the messages. The daily automations I need are more efficiently carried out by home assistant / n8n. I'm not in a position where I need automated briefs on every new company started in my area. I genuinely don't see how it could benefit me.
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upvoteby dg2fgfg7 hours ago|
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Most humans are unimaginative because to be imaginative is actually really, really hard. People are also incredibly overly optimistic about their own ideas etc... until they go through the craftsmanship of producing something great.

Most peoples thought process is "oh great idea, just gotta do this and that and out pops something that'll improve peoples lives". Erm no... its nothing like that in reality.

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upvoteby swader99910 hours ago|
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It's useful for clearing out Mac inventory before the launch this week.
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upvoteby Jcampuzano210 hours ago|
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I don't doubt that there are people using it for legitimate stuff, but I'd wager the vast majority just set it up for the hype and to feel in the "in crowd".

I set it up, and had it do a few things, then decided its too risky after seeing some of the drastic failures it had caused some people.

Sure I understand you can sandbox it and all, but even then I couldn't think of much stuff I wouldn't want to do myself just nor justify the cost to run it.

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upvoteby lm284699 hours ago|
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Wannabe Tony Stark love these gadgets, and there are a lot of them out there. Just look at what tech content is trending on youtube &co these days, we got gangrened by influencers like most other hobbies/lucrative industries
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upvoteby sodapopcan9 hours ago|
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It's useful for producing content about how you're using it.
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upvoteby mercwear10 hours ago|
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Here are some of the things I did with it while running locally: - Ask it to perform a scan of your local network and give you advice on output - Tell it to login to various computers and re-boot them (I have a few servers I host and setup openclaw to have a user on them) - Replace web search by asking openclaw

It's neat but the token use is pretty inefficient and security of course is a mess but it's been fun to play with.

I am messing with NanoClaw now and it's pretty much the same but only support Claude (uses code to do everything)

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upvoteby dmd10 hours ago|
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I don't see how any of those require a constant-heartbeat loop. Those all work just fine in claude code / cowork.
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upvoteby vanillameow10 hours ago|
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And in reality most of what does need a heartbeat loop can also easily be automated by just asking Claude to set up a cronjob. I think genuinely the most "novel" thing about something like OpenClaw is just that it "feels" more like a "real entity", like a partner rather than a chatbot, and for some reason that resonates with people. Whether that's by itself kind of a huge red flag or kind of a nothingburger, everyone has to decide for themselves.
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upvoteby rune-dev9 hours ago|
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Do you really need an AI agent to reboot a computer?

This takes maybe 10 minutes to write a script for…

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upvoteby nicbou10 hours ago|
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There is a thread from February with more credible use cases from real users. As someone said, it does what everyone expected Siri to do by now.
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upvoteby hobofan9 hours ago|
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Which one? None of those that came up when I searched were really containing a lot of real uses. Both top threads[0][1] don't really contain much of substance.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46838946 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47147183

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upvoteby sumeno10 hours ago|
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Separating fools from their money and data
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upvoteby arewethereyeta9 hours ago|
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you're talking about a free tool you know that right?
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upvoteby LorenDB9 hours ago|
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Not many people are using local LLMs for their OpenClaw backend, so most are paying money to OpenAI/Anthropic/etc. and getting their data siphoned as a bonus.
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upvoteby jcgrillo10 hours ago|
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You give it your etrade login and retire early.
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upvoteby cm218710 hours ago|
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Retire under a bridge...
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upvoteby kruffalon8 hours ago|
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Did they stutter?!
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