Comment by operatingthetan
9 hours ago
None of those things require openclaw. You could accomplish them with something like Google Drive and Claude Code CLI.
9 hours ago
None of those things require openclaw. You could accomplish them with something like Google Drive and Claude Code CLI.
> None of those things require openclaw.
OpenClaw was never meant to be a tool that could do things you couldn't do without it.
Also, whenever someone points out you could accomplish something without it, he underestimates the effort needed. In the examples I'm thinking of, someone simply asked OpenClaw to do something, had a few back and forths with it, and it was done. I have yet to see someone say "Oh, I can do that without OpenClaw" and go ahead and do it within 10 minutes.
Not once.
OpenClaw is flawed, but the convenience is an order of magnitude higher than anything else.
> the convenience is an order of magnitude higher than anything else.
You offered nothing to support this. My openclaw is realistically just an agent in discord versus the CLI. That's not an "order of magnitude" more convenient. Anthropic already has a tool for it https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control
> You offered nothing to support this.
You've got it inverted. My point is the people saying "You could have done that just as easily with ..." are the ones not supporting it. The commenter has already built that thing with OpenClaw. If someone is saying it could easily have done without it - well, demonstrate it!
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The difference is I would have to do that myself. It has access to gdrive and cc and does it for me when I send it a message in chat. Sometimes when I’m out I even just send it voicys.
Method 1: run Claude Code in YOLO mode and use natural language instructions to get something done
Method 2: send natural language instructions to OpenClaw to use Claude Code to do the same thing
Sorry my tiny brain says to me method 2 is doing the same thing with extra steps
You're contradicting yourself here. Are you controlling it yourself or not? lol
It’s task dependent.
None of those require Claude Code CLI either, you could develop their workflows with a script (bash, python) and any quality LLM.
Just an example of how I would accomplish them. The obsession with openclaw is generally misguided. The 'magic' is the LLM. I'm running an OC instance on a server in my home, I have experience here.