Is OpenClaw Dead?

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The video taps into the current hype around AI agents and addresses a potential concern within the tech community about the viability of a specific product, OpenClaw. By contrasting it with emerging alternatives and highlighting practical issues, it provides valuable insights for those interested in the AI space.

Summary

The video discusses the potential decline of OpenClaw, an AI agent, by highlighting three key factors. It contrasts OpenClaw's setup-intensive proactive features with more practical and cheaper alternatives like Claude Code and Codex, and suggests Hermes as a potential future leader in local AI.

Structure

1OpenClaw's past popularity and current questions about its status
2Issue 1: OpenClaw's proactive features are difficult to set up and not very useful
3Issue 2: More practical and cheaper alternatives like Claude Code and Codex exist

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OpenClaw: an AI agent that automates tasks. It acts by performing actions like sorting inboxes, booking meetings, or fixing bugs. It is mentioned as potentially being 'dead' and its proactive features require setup. Mac Mini: a computer. It appears as a product that many people were buying. Reddit: a social media platform. It appears as a screenshot of a post. Claude Code: an AI coding agent. It acts by working with code, building, debugging, and shipping. Codex: an AI coding agent. It acts by gathering context, across files and plugins, taking action, and delivering results. Hermes: an AI agent. It acts by providing memory, skills, and loops for local AI.

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Is OpenClaw Dead? OpenClaw Employee: "Is OpenClaw Dead?" 1. OpenClaw's proactive-ness needs setup 2. Other agents are more practical 3. Hermes could be next for local AI

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What happened to OpenClaw? Just a few months ago, everyone was buying Mac Minis and saying "I need 6 Mac Minis!" to run their whole lives. An OpenClaw employee even made a Reddit post asking, "Is OpenClaw Dead?" There's three big things that are going on. 1. OpenClaw's proactive-ness needs setup That even though it's supposed to be proactive, the proactive stuff isn't actually that useful. It takes a lot of work to get the agent to do stuff without you asking, and without it going off the rails. 2. Other agents are more practical That Claude Code and Codex are just as powerful, if not more, and cheaper. There's also way less setup, can work for the proactive stuff if you want to. 3. Hermes could be next for local AI That Hermes is here and it could be the next for local AI. If you want you can be model agnostic, but does require more setup.