Comment by patcon
10 hours ago
I don't care whether openclaw is built out of ice cream and sprinkles, I will still be amazed as a tech person
If something can automate my professional or personal life, it is wild technology and ppl will talk about it a lot. People are not idiots. A new thing is happening, would you not agree?
What its parts are specifically made of, it does not matter imho
This is an ostrich-head-in-the-sand type of outlook. If I gave you a great tasting cake made of boiled plastic would you still eat it?
It's important to know what goes into building *claws because of how pervasive they are; sooner or later because of all the hype they'll start being used everywhere and if people take your attitude it's a disaster waiting to happen.
Giving them unfettered access to your life and not even wonder if the foundation is solid is concerning imho.
> If I gave you a great tasting cake made of boiled plastic would you still eat it?
How is that analogy in any way relevant?
The OpenClaw I control is extremely useful to me. I've never been more excited about technology than right now. If it's not for you, I really don't care. Go do something you enjoy. Turning it into Chicken Little doomerism is completely uncalled for.
This doomer attitude is something I have towards all software products these days, not just *claws.
People use dependencies willy-nilly, avoid proper auditing of LLM output; all that have disastrous consequences as we've seen the past few years. NPM supply chain attacks, prompt injection causing data exfil, etc.
I am simply saying it's imperative to UNDERSTAND the platform before making it a core part of your life. If wanting proper understanding of vibe coded projects with dependency hell is Chicken Little doomerism, oh well.
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> . I've never been more excited about technology than right now. If it's not for you, I really don't care.
People are excited all the time with junk food, drugs and lots of silly easy dopamine hits.That doesn't mean it is good for them.
Better analogy is the clawcake has no new ingredients, we've been cooking with the same ones for years now, and its a shame people are such terrible bakers that they are so impressed.
Jesus ... did you not read what that OP wrote? Your response sounds like a breathless teenager. Stop and think.