I get the feeling that this won’t be safe until its baked into the OS and can be given the fine grained control needed to be both powerful and safe.
That said, it’s incredibly exciting. It does suggest a really interesting future where, rather than use apps for certain purposes, you just ask the AI to do it and it essentially builds an app to do the job on the fly. Given that vibe coded apps for simple purposes are already a feature of the MacOS landscape, it really isn’t too far fetched to imagine the AI simply making one based on your input within the next few years.
Been playing around with it installed on its own VPS and it’s pretty neat so far. One big thing to do is setup its Memory system fully, it doesn’t come defaulted to the way I think most people would expect it, or want it to be. I want it to remember conversations, links I send it etc. By default it kinda only does that if you tell I too save. Giving it the link to the docs Memory page and telling it to configure itself helps, and there are several posts on X with setup instructions to save conversations, improve its memory search abilities etc.
i have used OpenClaw but stopped using it for security concerns
i have used OpenClaw but stopped using it for stability concerns
i have heard of OpenClaw but have not installed/used it
Huh? OpenClaw?
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I heard about Clawdbot from Ticci. It felt like when i discovered Capacities. WOW
50 MILLION TOKEN BURN
unfortunately, along the way, i had a missing-tool-reference error which kept looping and burning tokens until it maxed out the 250k-every-3-seconds limit. all told i burned 50M tokens before i got it shut down.
i submitted a PR for it with a local fix that Codex helped with.
but they’re getting 30-60 PRs per hour!
in the end 92 others submitted PRs for the same issue.
more project oversight is needed: staff.
RISK SURFACE EXPOSED
i granted it access to my messages for content building and it assured me it would not respond if anyone texted me, but
in those few minutes, it responded to two inbound messages and freaked out my correspondents.
This thing needs more guardrails.
THE FUTURE IS BRIGHT
Still, it shows us where we’re headed: individuals with developer mindset, “some technical skill” to review code and troubleshoot, and with an architect’s approach to building systems rather than using it as a vending machine, will be the ones who survive the labor disruption in progress.
I agree with Peter; companies are on their way to staff at 30% of the humans they have now.
Fortunately the mistakes OpenClaw has done haven’t been as catastrophic as yours, I have taken a slow approach and still it has had plenty of hiccups, and I can tell that it has plenty of potential.
Siloing it to Slack is the best option. My suggestion is:
only allow it to access your personal public information. Calendar, Reminders, basic stuff that if leaked or stolen won’t be of value or concern
