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by H8crilA 31 days ago
OpenClaw has surprisingly few "dumb" bugs. Is it as stable and secure as the Linux kernel? God no, obviously not. But it has never just crashed for me, for example. Bugs are of the type "X with Y and Z disabled and T turned on - doesn't work", where you're likely one of a few people that have ever tried this combination. Not to mention it can then debug itself and file a bug report, with a bugfix - if you give it a GitHub token.

I run it in a firewalled VM and am very conscious about any tokens I give it access to - so far for all I know this was unnecessary.

PS. for me the core feature of OpenClaw isn't the cron, though that is nice. It's the memory and instant extensibility. Like it takes 5-15 minutes to add an SSH tool where all agent requests go through a manual review, together with a good auto loaded description that just works in all future sessions.

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For the few weeks in which I’ve been using it, it has brought down the Raspberry Pi it’s running on several times with extreme resource hogging, local history/memory search is broken due to a trivial bug for which all issues are auto-closed by bits, and it has changed its configuration standards a handful of times in a way that broke my instant messaging access to it, just to name a few gripes.

This is clearly an implementation and not a conceptual issue, as I had none of these issues using the same model with Hermes, for example.