OpenClaw seems to have lost momentum.
OpenClaw seems to have lost momentum. Hermes fanboys are having fun pointing this out.
Topic: Openclaw
84 mentions · 55 chunks · 20 episodes
18.4× distinctiveness vs baseline
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1.2x burst in 2026 Q1
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- Openclaw appears in 55 chunks across 20 episodes, from 2026-02-02 to 2026-06-29.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 2/16/26 (2026-02-16), with 6 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with wild west, Microsoft, and Claude Code, while by chunk count it sits between vast majority and tech industry.
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A user of one of the OpenClaw-style agents told me this week about her agent going "above and beyond."
A user of one of the OpenClaw-style agents told me this week about her agent going "above and beyond." She asked it to look at the emails she hadn't yet responded to and triage th...
This week in the Wild West Roundup.
...door Turns Prompt Injection on the Analyst, Not the Sandbox. Multiple malicious OpenClaw skills found online - including two macOS infostealers. Google's AI Overviews Feature Is Telling Users That SCP Horror Fiction Entities Are Real.
If your min-viable safety bar is "better than the leading agent platforms" then it's a very low bar to clear.
...than the leading agent platforms" then it's a very low bar to clear. Hermes and OpenClaw are catastrophically dangerous, so an AI tool that is as powerful but at least slightly more safe, if not radically more safe, is an easy bar to clea...
People who use Claude Code or platforms like Hermes or OpenClaw already know what agents can do.
People who use Claude Code or platforms like Hermes or OpenClaw already know what agents can do. Wowing them is hard. But wowing people who have only used the free chatbots is radically easier.
You can't have autonomy without accountability.
...t accountability. Today's agents have the former, but not the latter. See also: OpenClaw used Gavriel Cohen's code and exposed the AI Agent accountability problem. "OpenClaw, abandoned packages, Google's closed pivot, and Anthropic's recu...
PCWorld: OpenClaw was too dangerous for your PC.
PCWorld: OpenClaw was too dangerous for your PC. Now it's the blueprint. Reckless!
This week in the Wild West Roundup.
...d Nothing Catches It. Another new attack: Phishing for Lobsters: How We Tricked OpenClaw into Spilling Secrets. Yet another new attack: Compromise OpenClaw with Prompt Injections in Message Objects. Indirect Prompt Injection remains a fun...
A tweet from the official OpenClaw account:
A tweet from the official OpenClaw account: '"You can run OpenClaw inside your company now." Annoucing our work with @Microsoft to bring OpenClaw to the Microsoft and Windows ecosystem...
Gemini Spark and OpenClaw is like having agents running around with razor blades.
Gemini Spark and OpenClaw is like having agents running around with razor blades. Someone is going to get hurt. A friend was using Gemini Spark, and it tried to move his birth...
By some measures, Hermes has more usage than OpenClaw.
By some measures, Hermes has more usage than OpenClaw. OpenClaw was the starter pistol for the power of agentic software, but it will not be the most important one. Hermes likely won't be it, either. We'...
LLMs are like sea level dropping by 10 meters.
...ly entirely underwater. That continent will look nothing like the previous one. OpenClaw was like sighting land.
Many of the magic moments with OpenClaw were just latent in Claude.
Many of the magic moments with OpenClaw were just latent in Claude. It was packaging them up with different convenient packaging that made it sing. Claude Code was also its own version of u...
Imagine trying to make flying an airplane something that everyone can do.
...l probably die. … OK, have fun!" That's what it will be like to try to retrofit OpenClaw or even Claude Code to the mass market. Either you'll break what made it powerful in the first place or you'll make something that hides the dangerou...
This week in the Wild West Roundup:
...n the Wild West Roundup: Critical 'Claw Chain' Vulnerabilities Put Thousands of OpenClaw AI Servers at Risk. The Register: Minor edits to AI skills can make agents go rogue. How prompt injection broke Nvidia's sandboxed OpenClaw agent. "R...
OpenClaw Shows AI Agents Don't Need to Be Vertically Integrated.
OpenClaw Shows AI Agents Don't Need to Be Vertically Integrated. Breadth is more important than depth in agents. Having all of your data is more important tha...
I love the frame in this article that OpenClaw is the Swedish Vasa ship.
I love the frame in this article that OpenClaw is the Swedish Vasa ship. It was so overstuffed and ill-considered that it capsized before even leaving the harbor.
This week in the Wild West Roundup:
...en prompts become shells: RCE vulnerabilities in AI agent frameworks. Malicious OpenClaw DeepSeek Skill Exploits Agentic AI Workflows to Deliver RAT and Stealer. An AI Agent Just Destroyed Our Production Data. It Confessed in Writing. Cla...
One of the emergent killer use cases for OpenClaw: automated crypto trading.
One of the emergent killer use cases for OpenClaw: automated crypto trading. What could possibly go wrong?
If you want to not have to tell OpenClaw what to do, someone else has to have done the work to make your use case work.
If you want to not have to tell OpenClaw what to do, someone else has to have done the work to make your use case work. That requires you to trust someone else–likely a stranger–with signifi...