I believe the thing which makes OpenClaw interesting is you can just ask it to do these things and it just does. Rather than you having to write these scripts. I understand with LLMs, writing these scripts would now be trivial, but I believe this is even more convenient.

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ed_elliott_asc 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

At least writing scripts you know what it will and won’t do, with open claw it will probably do what you want and maybe won’t do anything you don’t want.

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teekert 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You can check the scripts and cronjobs, als ask it to summarize the scripts actions (using another agent/model if you want). All in all, LLMs are not 100% trustworthy but generally things go as intended.

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ed_elliott_asc 2 hours ago | parent [-]

“Generally” I am not anti ai in any way but I do worry people will end up in trouble by giving things like ai agents too much fredom

	▲	teekert 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Ah yes people get into trouble in all sorts of ways.

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petesergeant 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Yeah, that's absolutely a real phenomenon, but I don't think it's especially OpenClaw-specific: I have lots of folders that are just collections of instructions and scripts that have mostly started with a prompt, and that I run sandboxed agents over. Previously I'd have considered automating them, but now it's just "fire up sandbox in a project folder, let the tool build itself". I wrote about this a bit here: https://sgnt.ai/p/the-software-i-stopped-writing/