I spent yesterday evening playing with OpenClaw and wanted to understand how to actually use it well.
Update, February 6: I've published an in-depth guide with advanced tips for secure credentials, memory management, automations, and proactive work with OpenClaw for our Club members here. For the past week or so, I’ve been working with a digital assistant that knows my name, my preferences for my morning routine, how I like to use
I spent yesterday evening playing with OpenClaw and wanted to understand how to actually use it well.
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We explore whether OpenClaw can be safely installed and configured, and the risks involved in running this experiment.
What could go wrong, or right?
We explore whether OpenClaw can be safely installed and configured, and the risks involved in running this experiment.
Clawdbot sparked a movement of developers running dedicated Mac Minis as 24/7 AI agents. Here's why the trend is growing and what hardware you actually need.
OpenClaw agents have been touted as the most important software product ever. I have some questions.
This week actually ended up busier than the last, though unlike last week it was primarily during office hours. 🤔
Clawdbot impresses not because it has some miraculous model or architecture, but because it is running right next to the data: on your desktop OS, often your primary machine. There, it can read local files and data directly, invoke command-line tools and system APIs freely, and even drive graphical interfaces that have no public API by operating the mouse and keyboard. None of that is novel. Desktop systems have supported this for decades, and traditional automation tools have long been able to do many of these jobs more cheaply and more reliably.
We explore whether OpenClaw can be safely installed and configured, and the risks involved in running this experiment.