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why the future wouldn't just look like this
That's what it looks like now on the bleeding edge. The problem with it is that because you didn't spec what you want, but just put some generic slop, the test will be generic. And since no one specs what they want, everything will be generic. And generic is boring; it will cost you customers.
I was clicking around on the link I shared in my other comment a bit to make sure I was sharing the right tool, and I found this gem:
Rememberpip install numpydoes not mean you will get the latest version;
it means you are OK with getting whatever version you get 😉
So if you wanna just let the AI decide, then it means you don't care what you get. Over time (and at 1000x dev speed that means in about 3... 2... 1... now) the only thing remaining will be slop. There will be nothing because you didn't spec anything. You're okay with whatever.
By the way, I got my clawbot set up on a VPS.
It's... cool, I guess. At least now I understand what the thing is , and what it's doing under the hood. Can't think of a major use case for it right now though, that claude code and claude chat couldn't solve.
Kinda cool that I can message it on Discord and it'll operate on files in a machine though.
You know what it's doing under the hood? That makes you the only person in the known universe to have that knowledge, lol.
Kinda cool that I can message it on Discord and it'll operate on files in a machine though.
We may differ in opinion whether discord is cool, but yes. Since Wednesday I was facing a dilemma of being on a Claude budget overrun so I was tempted to instead just give instructions to the claw bot. But then I was like naw - too much work - and just took the bitter pill of paying some extra cash into Anthropic. I heard they can use it, lmao.
Haha "under the hood" from my previous perspective of zero knowledge.
I now understand that it is a process that runs a gateway service exposed on a port. That port can receive messages, which it routs to a LLM using an API key you set up. It doesn't route the message directly to the LLM though. It probably does a couple of things first, like get the LLM to read the prompt to figure out what files it needs to read for more context and what commands it might need to run on the machine. So openclaw is the software that orchestrates between these calls to the LLM and what's happening on the machine.
It does other stuff in the background too. It runs a regular heartbeat check which is a call to a LLM using whatever is in your HEARTBEAT.md. It's got other markdown files (IDENTITY.md, SOUL.md, etc.) that sets up its personality. It keeps some working memory of your sessions so that past interactions persist. It's got a bunch of config files that let you set permissions, access tokens, and other access/restrictions.
It's equipped with instructions for how to operate certain APIs, like a Discord API. You have to set it up with your Discord bot token and manage some of the connections.
I'm not sure if there are other projects out there like this, but probably one reason it got popular is that it has a pretty comprehensive setup and onboarding wizard. So getting started is easy. I did encounter a few bugs along the way, but nothing that a little googling/LLMing couldn't figure out.
It probably does a couple of things first
It merges your first message into a massive superprompt with system, tooling, memory, personality, user preferences and then appends to it. They say it's somewhere in here haha.
it has a pretty comprehensive setup and onboarding wizard.
This is what I think they did pretty well. User-first attitude is a winner.
And the superprompt does seem to work pretty well to get the bot to be self-actualizing.
For example, if I ask regular Claude to tell me how to edit the openclaw config files to do X, it won't do as good of a job as if I ask the clawbot to edit its own files to do X.
That self-sufficiency aspect of knowing how to operate itself is pretty interesting. It's like the brain is actually connected to the hands and feet, so to speak.
Heh. One of the things I was worried most about was this regular heartbeat thing. Don't want any surprise bills
I don't know why the future wouldn't just look like this: