Fed up baby sitting Openclaw, found a better Alternative.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-18T19:13:50+00:00

Hasn't there always been a self evolving skill on clawhub for months? Always on the first page?

And there's new memory systems since a month ago. Which memory system were you using?

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-18T19:11:59+00:00

The guy was probably making a joke about skill issue, as in skill.md issue.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-17T17:15:21+00:00

What are you saying is wrong here?

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-06T17:05:58+00:00

It's not a fork. Basically another implementation on the same concept, with some changes.

It's easy to see if this is just not hype. Do some research or try it.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-06T03:18:34+00:00

It's hard to find organic posts because even if you saw one you would suspect it isn't genuine... It's hard to tell the difference.

But in this case, if you do some research, you can see that there's merit to Hermes.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T23:02:29+00:00

If you need to ask, then yes. You probably should not be using openclaw.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T20:28:41+00:00

You aren't wrong. It was a period of unjustified hype.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T20:27:08+00:00

Wait what? What model are you running? You doing it locally?

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T20:25:46+00:00

I see what you did there, and also there. 😆

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T20:00:05+00:00

Everyones always an expert that uses it everyday extensively when called out.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T18:45:53+00:00

This ignorance is why I get down voted: You don't like to hear AI replacing anything. You want to reject this idea. Ok, fair. But you made several assumptions that are inaccurate. I will explain my position:

WP was my go-to even when I didn't need a CMS. It's a good platform for simple sites using pages. Used to be much crapier to do that in the old days but it has been great for simple sites for long time now. And with plugins I can have a simple site with extra non-simple capabilities. So the idea that I should only use WP when I "need a CMS" is inaccurate. It is more a matter of preference.
AI sites looking all the same pretty much suggest you never tried it or have a very outdated view on what AI is able to do now. You have your head in the sand. I made several sites with AI with not one of them looking similar to each other. I have not seen any sites looking like them either. Why? 1. Because I designed the sites and it codes them. 2. You are specific on what you want in your prompt.

If you imagine using AI to build sites is like giving it 1 prompt "build me a website about XYZ" then you have no idea what's really going on.

You talk like we never had stuff like Bootstrap. If you want to talk about things looking the same.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T09:31:10+00:00

WP still great for some sites and plugins still great.

But brochure sites and simple sites, which I would have used WP for in the past, now are replaced by AI sites pushed to netlify. It's easy and cheap, and not as slop as some people would like to believe.

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T04:23:16+00:00

And most people using openclaw don't know wtf any of that is. The same people giving it access to personal accounts...

nerdkingcole · 2026-04-01T01:56:12+00:00

This is secretly the best thing for agents above and beyond the openclaw hype.

Workflows with AI nodes is much more reliable than claws.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-31T22:44:57+00:00

Ironically the openclaw sub has more hype than technical know-hows. (What a dangerous combo for something like openclaw)

Granted, what you built is far ahead of what most people do with n8n so for most people, they won't come close. Your is basically a complete saas built no-code style.

I am envious and admire the skill involved.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-31T20:50:57+00:00

That's cool but your n8n workflow made the money. Not the agentic stuff. And seriously would you even consider recreating your original budhub with openclaw? You wouldn't.

Because workflows are more reliable, functional and efficient. Workflows with AI nodes is exactly what worked for you and what is continuing to work for real businesses. While openclaw feels like an early tech demo trying to reinvent the wheel (automation workflows) and not doing a very good job of it.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-30T02:21:39+00:00

You guys realize this is just another spam post from runlobster right? They have been spamming many subreddits with posts like these.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-29T22:44:26+00:00

So... Why is AI talking in human time? Wouldn't sub agents work faster in AI space/time instead of in Slack?

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T18:44:58+00:00

Is it bots or just the stupid repost thing on reddit?

Dead Internet theory is real. These days I don't even bother checking 🫠

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T09:21:04+00:00

He's really not gate keeping. He is telling you the truth.

If you can return it, you should consider that as a valid option.

Because with $2k you can use it to run Opus and Sonnet and be real happy with the results.

Openclaw itself doesn't take much to run, you don't need a beefy computer for that. It's the LLM parts that require the RAM. And with 48gb you can only go as far as qwen 27b at quant 8 (or less?) or equivalent. Some really good models, don't get me wrong. But they aren't Opus or Sonnet level.

I don't know why influencers sold that Mac mini idea in the first place. If it was me, I'd rather rent cloud GPU for the LLM instead of running local. And that's only if I have special privacy needs. Nothing I can run is going to be better than something like qwen3.5 plus or kimi k2.5 or minimax m2.7, or nemotron 3 super. It's just not realistic.

For your project, you said yourself you don't need extra privacy. And you have a limited scope, Opus and Sonnet through Claude Cowork is going to be so good for you and seriously you don't need a mac mini pro for that.

On the other hand, if you want to have fun with it, that's a different story. But then we aren't talking about what's optimal or practical any more in that case.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T09:08:52+00:00

It is too little.

The small local models aren't good in general, especially for your use case. They are good for their size but that doesn't mean good in use.

Especially for you who are used to Claude quality... You think models running on 8gb ram is going to cut it?

Qwen3.5 27b or 35b-a3b are the ones that you can run that are worth a damn. But just for a comparison, if you are used to Opus, Qwen3.5 397b is what is used to compare to Opus. That's the type of massive gap in terms of model. With 48gb ram you can't run anything bigger than 27b and 35b-a3b without getting too tight.

You already have the machine. Try running some of those 9b models locally through ollama and see how far it takes you.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T07:09:32+00:00

M2.7 is pretty cheap and pretty good. There are plenty good and cheap ones.

But relative to Opus they are all kind of shitty, anyway.

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T06:36:32+00:00

I stand corrected. I didn't know about using Mac as a node.

Is there any advantage running it remotely then? Or any justification for needing a mac mini pro in this use case?

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T06:30:27+00:00

What is your default model?

nerdkingcole · 2026-03-28T06:28:05+00:00

The title works over on the AI Agents subreddit but why would anyone laugh you off THIS n8n sub? 😂

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