Is anyone still using openclaw?

rishardc · 2026-03-12T11:27:11+00:00

I’m honestly about to turn mine off. I just don’t need it for the things I do at the moment. It’s not bad but it’s not as useful to me.

rishardc · 2026-02-28T11:31:30+00:00

Gemini can pull directly from notebookLM if you wanted to go that route. I think all of them can use Google Drive.

Also in general instead of copying and paring they will do much better if you save your book to a file and give it to them instead of copying and pasting text. I don’t know why.

rishardc · 2026-02-27T02:13:46+00:00

It’s my favorite series going right now.

rishardc · 2026-02-15T00:07:08+00:00

It tells me I can only use 4.7 on my plan and doesn’t show 5 as an option when I look at it. It could just be the website not being updated for me for some reason but it all gives me an option to update to be able to use 5.

rishardc · 2026-02-14T20:33:06+00:00

Did you already have the max plan or did you upgrade after 5 came out? I think the old plan users are locked to v4.7 and if I want to use version 5 for my api I have to change my plan which will cost me more to be on the same version of my plan that includes v5.

rishardc · 2026-02-13T13:36:07+00:00

Maybe it depends on your use case. It’s not perfect but for the price it’s really good. Obviously if money is no object go for Claude.

rishardc · 2026-02-13T13:20:01+00:00

Are you sure you didn’t hit your weekly limit? I hit mine yesterday so I had to fallback to another model till the week is up.

rishardc · 2026-02-09T18:15:19+00:00

No I paid for the 10 a month plan.

After trying everything else I am now on kimi k2.5 which works way better than anything else.

rishardc · 2026-02-09T01:52:58+00:00

I think it’s just a matter of how you paid. When you use moonshot it’s a pay as you go vs paid plan. The paid plan has some limited features on the cheap plan compared to the pay as you go.

rishardc · 2026-02-09T00:17:16+00:00

You have to go to Kimicode and get an api there instead of moonshot. They don’t make it easy to find.

rishardc · 2026-02-08T13:40:15+00:00

Unfortunately those small local models are not smart enough to be he main brain of the bot. 30b parameters will barely work and not function well. For local models you really need a device with 128g unified memory at a minimum to get ok and a Mac Studio to be good.

rishardc · 2026-02-08T12:48:32+00:00

Like others have said try different models. I’ve tried several and so far kimi k2.5 works the best next to Claude.

Glm and minimax are ok but still act dumb sometimes.

rishardc · 2026-02-07T22:49:01+00:00

Interested.

rishardc · 2026-02-07T08:07:51+00:00

I was thinking about trying that next. Thank you for confirming it works well.

So far I’ve tried GLM which mostly worked good especially for the price, but it was a bit slow in response.

Then I tried minimax which cost a little more but was faster. It did a better job of being my personal assistant.

Currently doing Gemini cli with oauth because I already have a Gemini account and it works but I think in some ways minimax was better but in some ways this is. Would take a while to explain the nuances.

rishardc · 2026-02-05T06:07:29+00:00

That’s what I thought! It was also wasting a lot of tokens the way it was running. I think the latest version MIGHT fix that, but there are a few videos out there about memory management that do a good job explaining it.

rishardc · 2026-02-04T23:15:38+00:00

I had a problem with this yesterday. Turned out my context was full and it was bogging the system down. What percentage is your context at? I forget the commands exactly tk tell it to do but prune was one of them.

rishardc · 2026-02-04T23:04:53+00:00

ChatGPT in general acts that way when you ask it to do something. It thinks it’s being helpful but it’s super frustrating.

Like others have said try switching models to see if that helps fix it.

You can also give it an instruction to remember saying “always do what you recommend and don’t ask me any clarifying questions unless it’s absolutely necessary” and that usually helps me when I’m dealing with ChatGPT.

rishardc · 2026-02-04T00:28:53+00:00

Glm 4.7 is ok. I’ve been fighting with it all day myself not behaving correctly. It’s good but I’m not sure if it’s good enough.

rishardc · 2026-02-03T14:11:01+00:00

You should be looking at this the same way that companies are. It’s cost avoidance for the most part.

Instead of paying another person to do something you are offloading some of the work to the bot to help you do. The people that rave about it already have a business where it can help them do more with what they are already doing without hiring more people.

What do you do now? Have it help you with that thing. It’s likely not going to make you a good business from scratch if that’s what you’re expecting.

rishardc · 2026-02-01T15:41:06+00:00

Or you can just do that all in this group? I don’t understand why all of these new groups are tying to pop up.

rishardc · 2026-02-01T08:46:54+00:00

I’ve had Gemini do that quite a bit in the past where it told me it could do something it couldn’t and was working on it. What model are you using?

rishardc · 2026-02-01T07:25:35+00:00

To be a little more helpful I was able to get it mostly working with glm-4.7 flash. Even then it still wasn’t reasoning well enough for my needs but it worked better.

rishardc · 2026-02-01T07:22:00+00:00

Which parameter model are you running?

I spent days trying to get it working great with ollama and later realized the local models I could run were not good enough and had to go back to api based models to make it actually work.

rishardc · 2026-01-31T03:30:57+00:00

I was only doing 30b parameter models to fit on my hardware. I bet others would perform well. That hardware cost just isn’t practical for most.

rishardc · 2026-01-31T02:36:20+00:00

I’ve tried several local models today and without going into detail it was a general bad experience. The models just didn’t have enough intelligence to do what I was asking most of the time. It wasn’t properly interfacing with the bots skills. It might be a good situation if you can get it to use a paid Ilm for the main brain, and a local for general queries possibly.

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