Comment by bdcravens
5 days ago
Every time I've sat down to consider how it could be useful, I can't think of anything that I couldn't build as a series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts. (even using Claude Code to do the heavy lifting at first, but then the tokens are spent and I don't have ongoing cost)
I can only guess it's really not for "us", but rather for those who aren't afraid of technology but aren't really engineers.
>series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts
This is approximately the Dropbox reply.
>I can only guess it's really not for "us"
Exactly correct.
> >series of cron jobs and Playwright scripts
> This is approximately the Dropbox reply.
lol that wasn't my intent but I totally see it now.
I actually don't want to be dismissive of OpenClaw; I want to believe the hype. It's just what I've heard and what I see don't add up to me. If anything, it's a calculus where I have to decide if it's worth the time of setting up a machine and the learning curve.
numberOfProgrammersInTheWorld : numberOfPeopleInTheWorld
I’ve built a few recurring tasks with an OpenClaw. It’s fun to sit on the sofa and task it. That said, everything I’ve built with it I’ve realised would work better as a script.