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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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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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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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