[LaurensBER]

Amen.

I love the concept but I've never hosted such a terrible piece of software. Every update breaks something new or introduces another "anti-feature" that's enabled by default.

The documentation is often lagging behind and the changelog has such a low signal to noise ratio that you need a LLM to figure out what upgrading will break this time. For now I've just given up on updates and I've been patching bugs directly in the JS when they bother me enough.

If OpenClaw is the future of software I'm honestly a bit scared for the industry.

I'm open to suggestions, I tried Zeroclaw and Nullclaw but they're bad in their own way. I would like something that's easy to run on Kubernetes with WhatsApp integration and most important, stable releases.

[ValentineC]

> If OpenClaw is the future of software I'm honestly a bit scared for the industry.

I think it's mainly the industry wannabes gathering around a "sexy" brand name again, when they're really more interested in "AI as personal assistants".

OpenClaw just has the most traction despite being a hot mess, because the people hyping it up don't know how bad the codebase is, or because they want to launch something first and switch it over to a more credible alternative after.

[wyre]

I know Twitter has been talking up Hermes Agent by Nous Research a lot or id recommend building your own agent off of Pi.

[stingraycharles]

Thanks for this suggestion, I installed it yesterday after seeing this comment and this surely is a breath of fresh air! It appears that everything is designed reasonably well from the ground up. It’s more limited, but what’s there works well.

[fragmede]

> easy to run on Kubernetes

that sounds like an oxymoron.

[ikidd]

Hermes Agent