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Comment by bwb | Hacker News Reader

I'm blown away by the comments. This is a cool project someone created with clear warnings about its current state (beta), and the community is being utterly disrespectful. They are building something that many people find useful/fascinating/intriguing/fun.

Come on HN.

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A comment on OpenClaw about how useful it is with absolutely no concrete examples?

That's a surprise.

I am under absolutely zero requirement to glaze some random piece of software because you or anyone else personally find it interesting.

negativity rarely gets you far in life, however. Think about it. I don't use openclaw, don't see the need in my personal life, but i am also not shitting on it.

Yes the cynical tropes are getting tired by now, even though I personally agree with most of them.

But suspicions on the legitimacy of the stars seems reasonable, wouldn't you agree? Look at the rate of stars, look at the comments/issues/prs on the repo. It feels safe to assume that most of them are from bots and not organic humans who went out to star a cool project.

Why should people find an automated, buggy, risky slopworm for script kiddies that relies on an external slop provider who also gets all your data interesting?

This is the lowest, most boring form of programming.

I think if you dig into it and play with it, you will find that it is doing some really cool stuff. I started playing with it a few weeks ago, and I am having a blast messing around with it. Hoping to hook it up to a robot kit next month to try some fun stuff.

Are some people using it in absolutely shitty ways? Yes, but that isn't the majority of the people playing with it.

The negativity I am seeing here is off the charts and undserved.

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