> There's a reason it has so many stars and most of the people getting something out of it are not posting on X.

That reason is buying stars, agent swarms, and astroturing.

No project gathers 200K stars genuinely in 3 months. There are far more useful and popular projects that need 10 years to get 200K stars. When you see a project like this get 200K stars in just 3 months, you know something is very fishy.

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skeledrew 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Or you're just missing the generally wide appeal of the project.

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Sharlin 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it.

For a comparison, the local image gen interfaces ComfyUI and A1111 WebUI have a huge amount of stars (~100k and 160k respectively, accrued since 2022 or so), but they allow you to create porn customized to whatever kinks you have, not just automate things for the sake of automation. One of those is a rather bigger value prop than the other, dopamine-wise.

	▲	tmp10423288442 an hour ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Why would they be running local AI models? The creator of OpenClaw explicitly recommends against running OpenClaw using local LLM models at this time, because they're not as powerful as frontier models as well as much more gullible to prompt injection and the like.
	▲	LanceJones an hour ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		There's no need to run local models with OpenClaw. I use Anthropic's oAuth Max20 Plan subscription via their SDK...
	▲	kaashif an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		I bet if people could star repos anonymously those porn repos would have more stars.