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by jasonshen8 hours ago |
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upvoteby blenderob7 hours ago|
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> There's a reason it has so many stars and most of the people getting something out of it are not posting on X.

That reason is buying stars, agent swarms, and astroturing.

No project gathers 200K stars genuinely in 3 months. There are far more useful and popular projects that need 10 years to get 200K stars. When you see a project like this get 200K stars in just 3 months, you know something is very fishy.

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upvoteby adampunk2 hours ago|
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Yes, you’re right. It’s the children who are wrong.

Why is it so difficult to imagine that something that looks popular and fun is popular and fun?

Also, really who is paying for stars on open claw? Who benefits here?

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upvoteby skeledrew7 hours ago|
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Or you're just missing the generally wide appeal of the project.
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upvoteby Sharlin7 hours ago|
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There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it.

For a comparison, the local image gen interfaces ComfyUI and A1111 WebUI have a huge amount of stars (~100k and 160k respectively, accrued since 2022 or so), but they allow you to create porn customized to whatever kinks you have, not just automate things for the sake of automation. One of those is a rather bigger value prop than the other, dopamine-wise.

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upvoteby tmp104232884423 hours ago|
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Why would they be running local AI models? The creator of OpenClaw explicitly recommends against running OpenClaw using local LLM models at this time, because they're not as powerful as frontier models as well as much more gullible to prompt injection and the like.
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upvoteby LanceJones3 hours ago|
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There's no need to run local models with OpenClaw. I use Anthropic's oAuth Max20 Plan subscription via their SDK...
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upvoteby kaashif3 hours ago|
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I bet if people could star repos anonymously those porn repos would have more stars.
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upvoteby Xirdus7 hours ago|
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Do you have any examples of 20th or 21st century breakthrough technologies that started out as toys? I can only think of 3D printers.
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upvoteby monkpit25 minutes ago|
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3D printing started as aerospace tech, I’m pretty sure.
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upvoteby DomB3 hours ago|
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Drones
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upvoteby Xirdus1 hours ago|
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A cursory glance at Wikipedia tells me the technology to make drones (I assume by drones you mean quadcopters) was well known all the way back in the 50s. You could say the technology ultimately ended as nothing but a toy, rather than started as one.
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