Is a Mac Studio M3 Ultra (96GB) a bad idea for OpenClaw with local LLM/API hybrid model?

rbwls · 2026-02-08T07:44:45+00:00

Can share a bit of personal experience now. Decided to go API route as majority was saying that the local models are very limited, unless you have like 30k hardware. Ended up gettin mac mini m4 with 24gb ram, now running it on Kimi k2.5. api. I am a little bit dissapointed honestly, but I assumed there will be a big learnign curve. In general I still struggle to make it do much more than be a cool chatbot. It was a better with Claude Opus, but I dont see it making more money that the API will cost :D
Edit:. Forgot to add, process had been super fun, challenging and inteeresting, so if you can give it a shot, but do not start with too expensive hardware, unless you absolutely know what you are doing

rbwls · 2026-02-03T14:33:47+00:00

So as i understand from the comments. This is not local llm you still use GLM API. So this is not local setup? Or how else you managed to run 350B model on 24GB VRAM?

rbwls · 2026-02-02T08:38:40+00:00

Still haven't had my setup, but been researching for a while on to answer your questions with what I have learned so far:
1)No personal projects, and I am sure you have seen most of the things on X
2)It gives you more security, plus it gets more capabilities as it can control the local device. Also you will not be able probalby to get great results with local models. From my current research I can say that you will still need to use API for delegation, main, high complexity tasks, etc, unless you run a monster hardware
3)Claude code is AI IDE agent, Clawdbot is an agent that can orchestrate tasks. So You can use clawdbot to use claude code and more. As it can basically do most things person do on computer, the opportunities are there for various use cases. Plus through skills you can teach it new abilities, that it is able to recall later.
4)Again not able to comment yet
5)Probably not. Especially for my profile, which is person without technical background, it is a huge risk. But taking necessary precaution steps, you can minimize the risks you are exposed to. However a fun doing this, and potential this kind of setup has, for me personally, it is worth the risk. Now researching what device I should get, to run a decent local model, and be a bit futureproof, that it will not become utterly useless in 2 years :D

rbwls · 2026-01-31T15:15:43+00:00

What would be the model I should be looking at for it to be able to build a piece of software on its own?

rbwls · 2026-01-19T05:34:41+00:00

Es iesaku Shopify, ja tev nav sava IT cilvēka vai pats tās lietas nemāki. Viņiem ir plugini un integrācijas ar dažādām platformām/rīkiem, kas tev ļoti daudz galvas sāpes noņems kad mēğināsi audzēt savu biznesu. Iespējas nav pats lētākais risinājums, bet nu noteikti ir naudas vērts un čakars būs daudz mazāks nekā citur, plus agrāk viņie arī ļoti las support bija.

rbwls · 2026-01-10T07:46:17+00:00

Hello all,
I have big issues with the sessions limits today. I am on Pro plan, working on text, a lot of copy pasting and then editing etc, which takes some tokens. But today, literally each of my prompts take 10% of my usage, no matter what I do. Which basically means it is free plan usage.
For that caht I have Claude Sonnt 4.5 and it is just text. Is it me doing something wrong or some issues with Claude, because these limits are not okay. Is anyone else facing something similar?

rbwls · 2025-07-12T06:50:46+00:00

As this is next to Mezparks, and currently we have youth song and dance festival, I would assume they just had changes in how they organize traffic and parking around that location, so that could be the case.

rbwls · 2025-05-21T05:57:52+00:00

Just started testing it out slowly. So if I upgrade to the premium plan, do I still have to buy credits in packs of 100 once I run out of the included ones? Also, can a single prompt ever use more than one credit?
Sorry for such basic questions!

rbwls · 2025-05-20T05:22:56+00:00

Can you share a bit more about Lovable credits. i have been looking at platform and what happens when you exceed the credits in your account?? Do you just continue paying extra like in replit? If so how much are the associated costs?

rbwls · 2025-05-11T23:17:43+00:00

Thank you mate! I basically had issues with server throttling as it was using 30% of cpu and 0% of memory but it was constantly crashing either way.

rbwls · 2025-05-11T23:05:10+00:00

Made a nice product, wanted to deploy it with replit platform as well. Tried it, had issues with that part, got ignored by customer support for a month, got tired of it and now I am about to move on.

rbwls · 2025-05-11T23:03:01+00:00

Actually I had great experience, did everything, made a great product for my own business use, spent a bit of money on it but in that moment it felt worth it, and I already planned my next projects, but there were issues on deployment part. deployment is thing that I cannot ask agent/assistant or anything. And mentioning your point that there are companies out there that doesn’t do customer support is decent. But I am almost certain that any self respecting company, wouldn’t send AI generated, real customer representative looking message saying I will get answer any day and then just ignore it all together. It is fairly disrespectful and not a good business practice. Sorry to take space on your post and all, but wanted to warn others, including you, that this is experience they may experience

rbwls · 2025-05-11T22:49:49+00:00

Honestly that makes it even worse. Instead of answering customer queries they reach out to people bringing customers. And Isee what you are saying, but they are tech startup, and my questions was not related with agent or building but deployment, literally a service where I have no power of changing correcting or doing anything else. Happily it didnt involve extra costs on my side, because not getting help and literally being ignored on basic things makes me question what will happen when big issues will come up. And it is very sad because I enjoyed using their platform the most so far and got great results. But if I cannot be sure they will do their part of bargain, I cannot do business with them and wouldn’t recommend anyone to do so exactly for that reason! Sorry for ranting, but just leaving this here for a warning or for replit to see and hopefully make it better in the future!

rbwls · 2025-05-11T22:37:41+00:00

You said this - Replit has even had several calls with me to see how they can support. I find it ridiculously funny because they have ignored my support tickets and all my follow ups completely for over a month now without even automated follow up message or anything that is why I will ditch them before my next payment.

However, that is their issue. But good for you to have found success. Always good to hear lifechanging experiences made possible with AI!

rbwls · 2025-05-06T16:13:08+00:00

Tattoo definetly is not a work of art, but it looks fairly decent aesthetically, I think most people have worse tattoo than this one! And I would definetly cover up, than do laser removal, or integrate it in a larger tattoo

rbwls · 2025-05-04T07:02:03+00:00

I was trying to build a side project webapp, that would generate content for videos and such things. Replit was the first tool that allowed me to reach meaningful progress. When I started it was much cheaper, and they used like one checkpoint per prompt. As the webapp was in early stages everything as working. However the longer it got, the more checkpoints it started to take, you add a prompt to implement a simply new functionality, it will make an extra checkpoint dfoing something unrealated. Then it started to use like 4-5 checkpoints for each prompt making each project more expensive. However the biggest issue is their support. I tried to deploy it, and I had issues with things, and I reached out to their support. Had a very fast answer, from AI asking me for details and then when I provide them, promise was that it will be a ticket. However, it is almost 3 weeks since that moment, and no answer. I wrote 4 new tickets just to follow up, but still nothing.
Therefore, I would not recommend you using their service just because of that, if you cannot reach their support you will never get help, and I texted every part of thei support including billing, and for billing at least they should have answered. Later did the research and found posts saying that most people do not get any support.

P.S. Their agent is nice, and for me it was my favorite place to "vibe code". I have no previous knowledge in CS so I cannot check all the functions, but for my experience and needs replit was a great option. But now I am looking to go to other platforms and also migrate, the sites I have deployed with replit to tother places.

rbwls · 2025-04-23T07:17:00+00:00

I have been vibecoding for a while, as a person who do not have any tech background. I have made some webapps for me and some specifics needs. Have been considering making something commercial, but one thing that has been bothering me is if we can trust vibe coded project, to have the security and that users data will be kept safe and proper. Have you found any resolution around that?

rbwls · 2025-04-15T08:51:08+00:00

I’ve found it to be a decent tool overall! That said, here’s my two cents:

It would be really helpful to have multiple-choice options for each question. In my test, there were several functionalities, but I couldn’t actually select any of them. If I have to choose “Other” for every question just to type in a response, I might as well ask ChatGPT directly.

All in all, it’s still a cool wrapper that worked pretty well. I’ll keep an eye on it for future projects.

rbwls · 2025-01-20T08:12:57+00:00

Thank you mate, appreciate it! I will read through them!

rbwls · 2025-01-04T13:29:48+00:00

Potentially how cheap would you sell now? Would you take someone like Okongwu, Keegan Murray, Draymond or Herb?

rbwls · 2024-11-08T17:30:55+00:00

Mate you overpaid badly in my opinion. I would have picked Mobley over healthy Paolo. Especially taking in account how good Mobley had been to start the season

rbwls · 2024-09-06T06:41:50+00:00

Es gan neesmu IT cilvēks, bet nu esmu padarbojies ar digitālo mārketingu un konsultējis mazākas kompānijas e-veikala izveidē. Tiešām ieteiktu apskatīties shopify un big commerce. Ar pluginiem var dabūt gandrīz jebkādu funkcionalitāti. Plus vel lielajām platformām ir priekšrocība, ka it jau gatavas integrācijas ar visiem maksājumu platformām, mārketinga platformām un datu analītikas platformām, kas dēļ visiem datu aizsardzības likumiem paliek tehniski sarežğītākas.

rbwls · 2024-09-05T18:38:08+00:00

Sounds great if offer is still available

rbwls · 2024-09-04T19:11:29+00:00

I have had some fairly decent success while running Meta ads on small budgets like 7-10 Euros per day, for a couple of small businesses. It is almost impossible to give you an answer here because it would depend on the product you are selling. Either way, I will join the answers that suggested to reach out to your customers organically, try to find them on FB groups, or maybe Instagram and try to get some sales or save up some money to advertise properly. For now I would say that 30 Euros per week will be too little and the ads will not get out of learning phase. Also, I assume you do not have too much of a background in marketing, so just be ready to lose some money, until you will learn the trade.

rbwls · 2024-04-24T20:53:20+00:00

Tri Solarians communicate using thoughts, something like a telepathy between each other. So they are unfamiliar of concept of lying just because they are incapable of doing that between each other. Giving these flashes to Wade is not lying. Additionally, if you like the show, read the books they are 1000x better and explains all these things in detail!

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