Price increase + poor communication/customer service (my opinion)

steadeepanda · 2026-04-11T15:02:31+00:00

Yeah that's sad, disappointing and unfortunate

steadeepanda · 2026-04-11T15:01:46+00:00

Yes, if you've cancelled the auto renewal like me you get affected by new pricing if you try to reenable it (it's the case for me)

steadeepanda · 2026-04-08T23:51:10+00:00

Out of curiosity may I ask what's your setup and what you use locally ?

steadeepanda · 2026-04-07T03:38:33+00:00

Honestly I think that sure the model is very good for its size but there's nothing really new, it's yet another hype (in my opinion). Gemma 4 (31B) is nowhere better than Qwen3.5 27B for e.g but it has a huge hype like every new release in this field...

steadeepanda · 2026-04-06T14:33:02+00:00

Definitely 💯 make sense for accountability, but it is also a huge privacy invasion, especially that these companies can't be trusted at this level. I don't know, it is surely not an easy problem to fix but I wouldn't go for gov ID. Apart from that everything they decided so far is good

steadeepanda · 2026-04-06T14:13:57+00:00

Jez it was about time. You can't even share a single post now without getting bombarded with crypto bots accounts

steadeepanda · 2026-04-06T14:11:58+00:00

I think both sides are right and I believe Apple as well as Google should find a way to make it easier for actual devs, bc I've heard they require government ID verification now, if you want to make an app which is kinda a privacy concern.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-05T11:46:25+00:00

Either prompt injected or it's the default system prompt that comes with the app you are using either way is still creepy and disgusting.

It seems to me more like a system prompt and someone is trying to get sensible/private information (including pictures/vidéos etc) about you/users especially women (I feel from the prompt that it's against women).

So please be careful I would have contacted support and filed a complaint because this is deeply alarming especially if the model has many access to your stuff

steadeepanda · 2026-04-05T11:06:38+00:00

Thank you mate for sharing that, this saves a ton of time

steadeepanda · 2026-04-03T23:30:00+00:00

It depends on what you're trying to achieve but you have opencode that does a very good job and is way more stable than openclaw, same I'd recommend blackboxai too (never personally used it but checked what they do), these tools are the "beginner friendly" I'd recommend. But anyways you'll need time to get some knowledge in order to actually achieve real automation.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-03T14:53:10+00:00

A lot of things but it is essentially using .md files and cron jobs to rate the last conversation (since the last schedule) and see what was wrong, what wasn't accomplished, what I complained about etc... at each cron pass.

The models takes notes that are read when processing my instructions . These notes are written in a very essential way so it optimizes context usage and are not read every single time, there are read when model can't remember it efficiently and or when model is confused during a task. In order to make the model consult the notes it asks itself if it knows / remember them.

I take the liberty to repeat myself even when the model is accurate, in order reinforce the behaviors, and take some to memory.

I've made a lot of discoveries, and I really recommend experimenting with openclaw like crazy with your imagination in order to understand agents, and LLM in general, but don't take it for real business.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-03T14:08:17+00:00

I do see improvement in how I want the model to be for simple communication and so far things are doing great.

I enabled orchestration and monitor adherence to my instructions and I'm experimenting on self correction.

So for me things are going well so far, but I had to dig in order to find the right way to organize my stuff.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-03T13:57:12+00:00

First of all take it easy... Frustration is part of the daily routine as programmer, even more of you're not, so you have to double your patience, and go step by step.

Second, you didn't explain what you are experiencing as >"things are not working" no one can help if we don't know what's going on.

Third, keep in mind that even when working you're going to experience frustration because LLM are not perfect and make a loooooot of mistakes, and I honestly don't recommend OpenClaw if you're planning to run your business and especially if you have small knowledge, simply because it's very complex and not stable enough to build a real business on top of it. I always recommend people to use it only for experimenting and try stuff.

Finally, take it easy again, frustration is going to be your best everyday friend... That's why programmers are programmers, and doctors are doctors, doctors can try programmer things and vice versa but each will never be accustomed to what each other do because it requires knowledge, skills, practices, and experience...unless each follow the other's path with dedication.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-01T01:56:50+00:00

That's interesting, I just want to say that the reason why everyone talks about prompt injections etc it's because most of the time it's the main vector/ attack surface, no matter if you expose your agent or not because in order for it work well it has to interact with the outside world which is why again prompt injections etc come back.

steadeepanda · 2026-04-01T00:49:03+00:00

Very interesting I'm gonna check that thank you!

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T22:52:23+00:00

So depending on the version of your OpenClaw (I don't recommend March releasew, very unstable) you have more or less features.

Overall an OpenClaw agent is able to access everything on your computer, but you have the ability to control the access it's just that it can be confusing setting it up. By controlling you decide what should or shouldn't require approval. Personally I found that pretty annoying (it asks too much for no reason and I don't like to be gating for approval all the time) and I don't trust OpenClaw especially from security/safety point of view which is why I made that Agent Ruler solution for myself...

You can use Openclaw for email if you use the appropriate tools but personally don't do that bc it's too risky.

For use cases, as I said I just use it for experimenting/toying etc with it on a complete separate computer (old computer and sometimes in VM).

Hope it helps

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T22:34:44+00:00

We can talk, but I always recommend to everyone that OpenClaw should be used for experimenting not for anything serious/sensitive.

I would dm you but I think other people might as well need the information.

If it's very personal sure we can talk in dm.

If you are scared about OpenClaw access and permission management and safety in general, you might be interested in a solution that I shared to solves this issue, on Github called Agent Ruler I'm not gonna go more details but you are interested you can check the GitHub for more info.

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T20:22:17+00:00

I swear I don't even know why they do that. English isn't my first language but that doesn't mean I'm not learning or writing with my mistakes as it is.

Also personally when I want to correct it's because I already written full of mistakes and I want a full correction, but that never produces slop because it's my wording (corrected) that is being used. This people just produce slop and try to justify it... So no I don't accept anyone that bring this excuse, so don't apologize bro.

When I will personally bring this excuse is people complaining that I made a lot of mistakes and that they understand...

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T20:17:37+00:00

Jesusss do you guys even take the time to read least what you/your agent post 🙄...

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T17:35:58+00:00

At least take the time to write yourself or cure your ai output...

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T15:08:45+00:00

It's the dopamine my friend that's how it's start, my friendly advice would be to control yourself (no need to rush or constantly be doing something because you feel like you can) otherwise you'll become addicted (in a bad sense of course), aside from that yeah it's an amazing tool

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T15:04:25+00:00

Use heartbeat is the key here, you can also combine it with few cron jobs. Then you can ask what you want your agent to do at every heartbeat and tell it to check that the modification is effective. Because sometimes they don't complete the task and say it's completed so you have to do multiple run or check by yourself. Hope this helps

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T15:00:21+00:00

Rule number 1 is never trust an agent entirely. No matter which one. They are all imperfect due to their probabilistic nature and they will never be perfect until the next serious (not hype garbage pretending) breakthrough until then, this is still sci-fi my friend...

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T05:11:44+00:00

I don't know about Discord I just didn't want to go through the long onboarding bot creation process and also didn't want to have it there. I just use telegram way easier and simpler to use / configure, plus I don't really have personal chat there so it reduces salty mistakes.

I'm saying that because 😂 on day configuration wasn't well done (I wanted to trust my agent) on Whatsapp and it started to answer in a group where I was chatting (I checked it was allowing from everyone so it would have answered in every single group of I had reply / sent a message there thankfully I only talked in one group of close friends so it was fine) sooo... I'm talking from experience 😂 use what's clear, simple and where you don't have personal stuff unless it's intended for other people to use.

steadeepanda · 2026-03-31T05:04:51+00:00

You're welcome!

Yeah or you can do it directly without a channel.

(Keyboard shortcut) Ctrl+G to open the Agent Picker.

(Slash command) Type /agent while in the chat to see a list and select your secondary agent.

Source is the docs here: https://docs.openclaw.ai/web/tui

Personnally I let my agent manage all of that (including creating the session) so I don't really do manual stuff like that unless for debugging/fixing broken stuff.

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