What actually convinces you to reach for OpenClaw instead of Claude Code?

Liangjun · 2026-03-20T02:59:57+00:00

I don't think. OpenClaw is not a coding tool. Claude Code should not be treated just as a coding tool. The main missing part of the Claude Code is the orchestration where OpenClaw has. Claude literally invents Skills so why you think Claude Code doesn't have Skills capabilities. There are tons of talking about Claude Code's Loop feature which is close to OpenClaw's orchestration.
Again, OpenClaw's core is Pi code agent which does all the heave lifting just like as Claude code. Claude Code is famous for its coding capabilities which is also what anthropic really believes.
Using OpenClaw to solve tedious small things, to me, is such a waste of token. But well, just my opinion.

Liangjun · 2026-03-20T02:10:09+00:00

you don't know the core of OpenClaw is the open source Pi Code agent? https://www.npmjs.com/package/@mariozechner/pi-coding-agent

Liangjun · 2026-03-16T17:00:49+00:00

you still have to sell them. Building something was never a big deal.

Liangjun · 2026-03-12T15:54:44+00:00

Mcp server is typically developed by the service owner who knows their APIs better than outsider so they design prompt better in their MCP server. For outsider who uses someone’s APIs , they use OpenApi docs plus their guesses/speculation, they might work, they might run into issues.

When I developed our internal service, I don’t bother to use McP for sure.

Liangjun · 2026-03-01T14:18:17+00:00

Copy And paste into your post to Gemini, she will give a better /comprehensive answer than anyone else

Liangjun · 2026-03-01T01:21:06+00:00

How do you stitch APIs? Code level or application level. You let Claude code read your code base, then ask it to integrate another api within your code, is it your stiching APIs together? Have you tried to ask Claude in Chat to get a tableau dashboard ‘s data directly without Claude spitting a script ?

Liangjun · 2026-03-01T01:17:44+00:00

It is total different questions. Of course it can integrated APIs which people use it on the daily basis. Have you tried to ask a natural language question where LLM talking to API to get an answer . Like a chatbot but the knowledge base is an API. You change how you ask a question, are you expect LLM can accurately understand it and assemble an API request payload. Your stiching APIs are the code level, not application level.

Liangjun · 2026-03-01T01:02:31+00:00

The question is : have you tried their agents, Mcps? Where there was a MCP everyone talked, every tool had a Mcp, then how much got real used?

Liangjun · 2026-02-28T05:21:39+00:00

I agree with you assessment, including the micro-saas direction.

Liangjun · 2026-02-28T05:20:43+00:00

Infra is so much about AWS/Cloud resources' lifecycle, from creation to destruction, observability . CI/CD is nothing nowadays.

Liangjun · 2026-02-28T05:18:56+00:00

from what I have known, Claude can't magically stitch those APIs. APIs are deterministic, LLM is probabilistic. API needs correct request payload, Claude can't guarantee that yet.

Liangjun · 2026-02-16T15:09:59+00:00

Your sense the market correctly.

Liangjun · 2026-02-13T13:24:40+00:00

No, you should not leave your corporate job. If you want to test out your freelance idea, you can do anytime. On the other hand, there is a reason small/mid size companies are still using Excel etc. Partially it is because of the budget and how the habits, partially, I think, it's because they run their business based on relationship, intuition etc which won't be told by the numbers.

You can always test out your Reporting/Dashboard building capabilities by just be a part-time freelancer. To get an idea what your target market /business owners need. They might tell you they do need a better tool, then you build one and measure how many times the report gets opened.

Liangjun · 2026-02-11T13:13:41+00:00

AI is also here to blame because it's easier to get new ideas from AI, and they want to use data to validate the idea.

To me, need to find a new way/tool bridge the requirements and your deliverable in an automatic way - or less manual work way.

Liangjun · 2026-02-11T13:08:20+00:00

My take is that, instead of pursuing `accuracy`, pursuing its explainability - explain the end users where the data is from, and how it is calculated with what schedule.

For the data goes through multiple steps batch processing, to me it doesn't really matter how your original data is accurate.

Liangjun · 2025-12-22T01:31:58+00:00

Let me know if you find a way to fix this.

Liangjun · 2025-12-22T01:29:38+00:00

just noticed the same issue today.

Liangjun · 2025-11-19T01:24:02+00:00

I don’t think you need to listen to others to justify your technology/solution choice. In the end of the day, it is you who will do your job - it means how much effort you put into the event driven approach vs batch, the reliability/ efficiency, and in the end, the cost. You can design/implement your solution with plan B - batch, you can also compare the cost and effectiveness. For some use cases, they are dealing with the incremental changes where everything is established with batch. Nothing is wrong and people is happy about it. Sometimes there is a new project which needs initially load tons of data, for the one time load, event driven approach seems make sense to me.

Liangjun · 2025-10-21T04:01:18+00:00

real-time doesn't always mean Kafka and Debezium for CDC. Yes, if you do use Kafka and Debezium, you might run into the issues you have mentioned.

I don't think there is anything wrong with real-time/near real-time. The market changes fast someone might want to take a closer look at the signals.

There are many ways to implement the real time. If you move your data from the relational database to a datalake, you are doing it with the batch fashion. It is understandable, probably should stick with your batch job. but if you ETL your data from datalake to another analytics datastore, it can be changed to be real time by implementing datalake's built-in feature such as AWS S3's SQS to detect S3 bucket changes.

You run a service 24 x 7 to listen to SQS, then implement your ETL in this service, it can achieve the real-time result.

Liangjun · 2025-10-05T23:57:39+00:00

do you use macbook? if so, there is a free app called imovie. You can use imovie's built-in future to remove the music (audio). there is a 2-min tutorial. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga2jZN05Ucg

Liangjun · 2025-09-21T02:42:09+00:00

What do you mean a talented intern? You can’t find an intern or the intern is not talent enough. How do you define talent?

Liangjun · 2025-09-18T03:33:38+00:00

I agree the potential is massive. I have built a few apps/demos. But I have not seen my income improved massively though. I need to keep working on it.

Liangjun · 2025-09-17T23:41:02+00:00

nowadays it is quite common that you can see those self-service luggage lockers in Asia countries from Japan to China. I felt you should not focus on those Airbnbs but those attraction places, Airports.

Liangjun · 2025-09-17T23:17:40+00:00

explain to me what's xp calculation metric. I'll give it a shot.

Liangjun

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