If you review the openclaw release schedule and code output you will see that yes, he was. I’m not saying you’ll like what you see, but the openclaw release schedule is well faster than human ability to assess it.
Opencode has the same problems. They often do multiple releases of that app a day, yet within the span of a week or two I have had to update my config because some random change has altered the behaviour and my permissions broke. Or I've noticed the way the app renders is suddenly different.
Yet, my day to day usage has barely changed since the version I installed last year. It's like everything changes but nothing changes.
All projects can become fast if they drop guardrails.
This does not correlate with productivity increase
https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commits/main/
GitHub insights over the last week.
Excluding merges, 216 authors have pushed 5864 commits to main and 6568 commits to all branches.
On main, 6965 files have changed and there have been 418,110 additions and 126,691 deletions.
In one month Peter makes 12k commits. So he is spending about $100 per commit depending on how much other stuff is going on.
That means he spends about
That doesn't sound very positive to me...
I just checked the code and feature outputs, and I can build all that in 15 days, for 1.3M USD. Fuck I would do it for 1M...
Scratch that, if it's 300K then sure I could do the same too, if you paid me that for 30 days of work. Lmao, the quality and the feature volume is just not worth anything worth paying so much money for.
I am not saying this because I don't like LLMs or I may think that AI coding can't work, but folks whatever openclaw has built for that much money is not worth nearly that much money...
The hard part is not building such toys, it's the convincing people with money to buy said toy. This is where he earned his applause.