[brcmthrowaway]

Can someone explain the special sauce of the claws compared to just use claude.ai etc

[lm28469]

There is no special sauce, it's mass hysteria driven by fake adoption metrics and people who don't know anything about computers who let "agents" run free on theirs. It's the equivalent of showing a magician cut a women in a box in half to a 5 years old kid... Put them in the same category as the neckbeards getting a hard on every 3 weeks for the past 2 years when they get to see the new version of ThE PeLiCaN On A BiCyCle... I wonder how long the circus will keep on going, at least it's funny to witness from the outside

[Zetaphor]

I've found real utility in it, but the hype definitely exceeds the current capabilities

[dmix]

This is a classic early internet style snarky comment you used to find all over forums

[enraged_camel]

Damn son, you sure sound salty!

[fooster]

It is a huge unlock. Ignore this snark and try it yourself. Any agentic use case you can imagine you can start to tackle.

Openclaw itself is buggy but the idea is amazing.

[juleiie]

You really should open your mind to what this tech can achieve. Sooner or later it will click in a way that permanently alters the reality

[stavros]

They're "always" running, so they can notify you out of the blue, without you having to initiate a conversation. It's really nice UX to get a message from my assistant saying "hey, it's time to leave for the gym, and don't forget the supermarket bag because you're picking up milk on the way back, as you've run out".

[mpweiher]

Dunno, my calendar reminds me "out of the blue", without me having to initiate a conversation, that it's time to leave for the gym, no "claw" or "ai" involved.

I always have my backpack with me, so if I need milk I can pick it up on the way back. And I am pretty sure that I have to notice if I need milk myself.

The tech sounds cool, but whenever I hear about actual applications, I don't see the point.

[netsharc]

Hmm, Google Gemini has access to my Google Tasks and can set reminders. It's also asked me if I want it to check something at "tomorrow 9am", and when I said yes, it managed to do that.

[dimitri-vs]

How would it know you've ran out of milk?

[brcmthrowaway]

How do people afford this?

[qudat]

I just tell CC to create a cron job systemd unit

[jesse_dot_id]

Haven't you ever wanted to create a gigantic attack surface for your digital life that is always running and just aching to be pwned?

[samrus]

Whatsapp api integration + cronjob

Thats it. Its just pets.com

Edit: although as a counterpoint to my cynicism, just the intgreations and deamon-ness can be a game changer if the user experience is good. Thats the critical thing. If you can actually delegate tasks to it and not worry about them then it'd be great. But if your gonna have to worry if its done properly, or that it would delete your emails, then it doesnt work yet. But the dream of a robot assistant is inviting. I just dont think the underlying AI is there yet

[gas9S9zw3P9c]

It can schedule stuff and run in a loop, so it's like claude combined with cron. Truly amazing technology.

[saberience]

There is no special sauce. They are claude or codex in a loop. The loop is facilitated by basic cron jobs. That's it.

Ai Agent as it has been for months, plus skills, plus a cron job to prompt it to do things every 20 minutes or 2 hours or however often you want.

[sailfast]

Crons. A local daemon. System access as a user with the ability to listen to changes. Some idea of shared “memory” between sessions. Provider agnostic about AI. Multi-model.

[ed_mercer]

Can you elaborate on “listen for changes”? AFAIK it can’t do that and needs cron jobs to check.

[dimitri-vs]

It's for people that don't know how or don't want to be bothered with setting up a messenger integration and a scheduler.

[boywitharupee]

they have a watchdog loop, it runs periodically