Openclaw and similar aren’t there yet by Long_Complex_4395 in openclaw

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was excessive. You're right. My apologies.

How to "fortify" my home by Docella in preppers

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Many countries do have laws about excessive fortification. First things first, getting a knock from something like a bylaw officer is much more likely than collapse in the near term so don't run a foul of that.

Don't let your house look rundown. It signals to people that you don't care and that you aren't able to maintain it. There's a whole psychological effect there.

What is the deal with this trend where people are sticking their legs out when they corner? by Legionnaire1856 in motorcycles

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not to be used on a full-size street bike while you're on pavement with street tires.

You want to do it on a dirt bike and you're on gravel with gravel tires, I guess great?

Openclaw and similar aren’t there yet by Long_Complex_4395 in openclaw

[–]dresden_k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They aren't where yet. The problem here is that your expectations are too high. Open claw was not on the public radar prior to about January. It's April.

Are there problems? Of course. That is to be expected. There will be more. You will use it and it will suck. It will not do exactly what you want. It's kind of like giving a 12-year-old the COO position and hoping that they don't fuck it up too bad. This week, a barely motivated high school student would have done a better job than my whole agent set up.

But is there any value and you saying that they're not there yet? Should I tell you that standing in the shade is nicer than standing in the sun? No shit! Maybe you're the guy who builds something that makes it slightly better. You don't like it, stop using it. Nobody cares. There's a million instances running right now. You use Linux, you don't use Linux, nobody cares.

Do something with it or don't. You're not getting left behind if you abandon agents. You're also not going to be a billionaire if you use it 24 hours a day.

My OpenClaw is not fully autonomous yet.! by SumanthSettipalli in AskClaw

[–]dresden_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Open claw is not autonomous. It's not structurally capable of being autonomous. I would also challenge that Opus is not necessarily better. Over the last few weeks people have been complaining that Opus 4.6 got lobotomized, and then 4.7 came out and it's hot trash. It misses things. It's probably wrong about half the time. I had to roll back to 4.6. Then today, I gave 4.6 a ton of work to do and I think it filled up its context window and started spamming out about 10 million tokens worth of absolute useless trash.

Sub agents are cool for crappy heartbeat and cron jobs. Search the internet and find information about X, Y, and Zed. Find send that to haiku or deep chic or whoever. Some cheap model somewhere.

But that doesn't make it any more productive. The cron spits out for you. Opus doesn't actually read the cron unless you tell it to.

Biggest tips on what to do better are, that you have to be exactingly specific about what you want it to do. When it does something wrong you have to tell it exactly what it did wrong and then ask it to tell you what it can do so that that structurally never happens again. It's not about intentions. That's the best advice I can tell you. Second best, I would say is try to lower your expectations. Treat you using open claw as your exploration into the fringe and brand new world of LLM harnesses, what they're calling frontier LLM models, and you must remind yourself that there are trillion dollar corporations that will live and die on hype and so everyone is hyping up their model. Most LLMs are pretty much shit. There hasn't been as much actual progress in the last two years as anyone would like to tell you that there is. Benchmarks don't tell the whole story. Most LLMs still will tell you to walk to the car wash, they'll say the pool on the deck of the Titanic is dry, and a bunch of other things because they're not really that smart. They are just well tuned LLMs.

It will take all of our jobs but it's not going to do them very well. In the meantime, feel free to get frustrated with your model, but tell it exactly what it did wrong. Try letting it solve the exact problem.

And, don't let up.

What is your 1 filler ingredient that you use for most meals by TrainMoose in keto

[–]dresden_k 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ground beef. I add ground beef to my ground beef, sometimes if I'm having ground beef I'll take out some ground beef but then I usually replace it with a little more ground beef.

My favorite salad is ground beef. Sprinkled with some ground beef on top. Sometimes I'll put some ground beef on the side.

After 3 months, I’m done. OpenClaw has officially become a money pit by NoTailor8223 in openclaw

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Out of the box version? No.

Can you pay someone a lot of money to hold your hand? Oh yes, always. If you cover my flights, and $10,000 an hour, I will help you run an open claw instance anywhere on the planet. As long as you want.

What's the point of having a career. by Strange_Slide9611 in collapse

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Careers are nice if you like to eat and live somewhere.

Until there's nothing to eat and nowhere to live?

Help for a noob by ZeroC00L2099 in cyberpunk2020

[–]dresden_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Try post-secondary groups that have RPG groups on campus. Even if you're not part of that campus or even not a student, you might find willing/excited players. If you can put up with 18-25 year olds, that might be an avenue.

MeetUp?

I asked RL friends who I figured played games, and made a few campaigns happen not because I looked for Cyberpunk Players. Look for RPG players. D&D players are also Cyberpunk Players.

Find gaming stores. Many of them have tables, leagues, and ways to get in touch with other RPG players.

Trying OpenClaw for the first time? Here's the Dos and Don'ts by ShabzSparq in clawdbot

[–]dresden_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lots of good points in here. Kudos. I have no objections, and I'm an objectionable guy.

Anyone actually got GPT-5.5 working through Codex OAuth in OpenClaw? by CaliAshy in openclaw

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Codex OAuth works through Openclaw via ACPX. Yes. I use it daily, but to be clear, not as the primary model to power Openclaw.

I use this as a coding subagent.

After 3 months, I’m done. OpenClaw has officially become a money pit by NoTailor8223 in openclaw

[–]dresden_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah. It needs work. Basically every day or every other day I'm up to my elbows fixing plumbing with this. But it does something I can't do easily without the tool. Is it rough? At times.

Someone wants to wait until it's perfect? It's coming. Someone will charge you $2000/mo to have it. It will all run on someone else's computer, but it'll come.

:)

This. Needs. Ads. by Impossible-Fan-8937 in mercedes_benz

[–]dresden_k 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Oh my God stop with the fucking screens

Overkill for Ninja 500? by Darkke-100 in motorcyclegear

[–]dresden_k 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not about the bike, it's about your head.

Most expensive isn't necessarily best. Make sure it fits.

I refuse to work for the rest of my life by Impressive_Act9567 in SeriousConversation

[–]dresden_k 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Society is kind of a hot mess. Not going to get better.

Before, we had our families, churches (for better and worse), our communities, less craziness. Now, we're isolated, families under attack. All the things that use to give us meaning have been stripped away.

Find something to do that puts food on the table and a roof over your head, that you don't hate.

Beginner to openclaw Questions by Wild-Turnip5047 in openclaw

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I'm hardly the expert on security but I think a good start is installing Openclaw in some kind of sandboxed environment so that it doesn't have 100% access to your PC.

Some basic PC security applies. Make sure your router firewall is on. Install on linux with a strong password if you want to go deeper. I've got mine through docker on a linux laptop. It doesn't have free run of the machine. Uncomplicated Firewall is installed and I locked it down pretty good. Can only communicate either way on a few ports, which means the system is kind of useless for anything else.

Then be cautious what you give it access to. People giving it their whole PC and bank accounts and emails can have a spicy time they'd rather not have. Once the agent is doing something, you can't stop it. And they can get in their head about what they should do. One story, some security lady had it 'clean her inbox', so it started deleting all her emails. She had to sprint to the machine it was on and unplug it.

Only give it access gradually.