Love this skeptical take. The timing of all these Chinese models coming out right when OpenClaw is blowing up on social media does feel too coordinated to be a coincidence. I tried setting it up last week and the whole 'run commands on yuor machine' thing gave me pause, felt lke opening Pandora's box without really knowing what's inside. The Github stats are impressive tho, it hit 100k stars faster than anything I've seen recently.
The whole idea of a useful AI assistant is great, but I have 2 main issues the openclaw approach 1) it seems to have been catering to people that don’t believe they could build their own assistant, even with vibe-coding. This means they are accepting code someone else wrote they had no experience with and allow it to run rampant. 2) I want my assistant to be built for what I need not what someone else thinks I need.
The idea this is a Chinese strategy is very interesting
“if you can’t understand how to run a command line, this is far too dangerous of a project for you to use safely. This isn’t a tool that should be used by the general public at this time.”
That’s a big “heads up!”
I’ve seen this type of warning before- in other forms.
A big red flag for me- (I’m no expert) is its ability to communicate with other agents. One or two nefarious developers could potentially do a lot of damage unnoticed. Without safeguarding it
As aspect of it could potentially create a “runaway train.”
Love this skeptical take. The timing of all these Chinese models coming out right when OpenClaw is blowing up on social media does feel too coordinated to be a coincidence. I tried setting it up last week and the whole 'run commands on yuor machine' thing gave me pause, felt lke opening Pandora's box without really knowing what's inside. The Github stats are impressive tho, it hit 100k stars faster than anything I've seen recently.
Guardrails, where are they and how can be managed with OpenClaw ? I'm interested
The way things are going it might take AI agents years to automate useful tasks for most citizens and consumers.
Who knows what kind of computing architectures will be using by then.
Yeah, what could go wrong?!
Yet again, humans succumb to their insatiable demand for convenience by opening their door willingly to a wolf in sheep's clothing.
Thanks for sharing this. Appreciate you ✌️
Telegram I can get, but the others? The West still hasn't mimicked either WeChat or mini apps, like at all.
The whole idea of a useful AI assistant is great, but I have 2 main issues the openclaw approach 1) it seems to have been catering to people that don’t believe they could build their own assistant, even with vibe-coding. This means they are accepting code someone else wrote they had no experience with and allow it to run rampant. 2) I want my assistant to be built for what I need not what someone else thinks I need.
The idea this is a Chinese strategy is very interesting
Thanks Rob.
I think you are right, it's a bit of a black-hat proposition.
I think Chinese developers will fork and utilize OpenClaw to build agentic products in China that will go global. I think they are already doing so.
“if you can’t understand how to run a command line, this is far too dangerous of a project for you to use safely. This isn’t a tool that should be used by the general public at this time.”
That’s a big “heads up!”
I’ve seen this type of warning before- in other forms.
A big red flag for me- (I’m no expert) is its ability to communicate with other agents. One or two nefarious developers could potentially do a lot of damage unnoticed. Without safeguarding it
As aspect of it could potentially create a “runaway train.”
Thanks for the insight-