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lucrbvi 7 hours ago

Why does OpenClaw have 800,000+ lines of code?? Isn't it just a connector for LLM APIs and other tools?

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marginalia_nu 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

For comparison, the C++ and rust code in the ladybird browser is about 573,000 lines of code.

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paxys an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I assume it is mostly or entirely written by AI, so that tracks.

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zarzavat 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They are probably counting dependencies. Also, it's vibe coded, what do you expect!

I used to think that LLMs would replace humans but now I'm confident that I'll have a job in the future cleaning up slop. Lucky us.

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scandinavian 7 hours ago | parent [-]

I did a cloc check on it and it does seem to have 800k lines of typescript. So unless they are vendoring dependencies it's actually as insane as it sounds.

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jsheard 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Christ their repo is an absolute nightmare. There's new issues and PRs being posted practically every minute, and I assume 99% of them are from agents given the target demographic. Just full-auto vibeslop from all barrels 24/7.

Even if we count the repos whole lifetime, including when it wasn't so active, the averages are still absurd.

96 days / (4,239+9,170) issues = one issue every 10 minutes

96 days / (5,082+10,221) pull requests = one PR every 9 minutes

	▲	mihaelm 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		5000+ open PRs is pretty insane, that's the highest I've seen. How do you even keep track of this? We'll really need trust management systems like vouch (https://github.com/mitchellh/vouch/tree/main) for open source projects in the future to help with reducing noise.
	▲	CrazyStat 6 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		At least nobody can accuse them of not dogfooding enough.

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cap11235 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

See also yeggae's beads. Last I checked, it is a 275k line todo tracker.

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re-thc 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

> Why does OpenClaw have 800,000+ lines of code??

Because

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