alt Hacker Newsthere's an entire cohort on HN who still claim AI is utterly and completely useless despite in your face evidence. Literally people making a similar claim word for word who say that they don't understand the hype that they used AI themselves and it's shit.
Meanwhile my entire company uses AI and the on the ground reality for me versus the cohort above is so much at odds with each other we're both claiming the other side is insane.
I haven't used these bots yet but I want to see the full story. Not just one guys take and one guys personal experience. The hype exists because there are success stories. I want to hear those as well.
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The comment above was saying OpenClaw was useless relative to their other heavy AI usage.
The person you’re criticizing says they’re a heavy AI user. The take was about OpenClaw, not AI.
What do you use AI for?
Pretty much everyone in my company also uses AI. But everyone sees the same downsides.
You’re correct. Any statement by HN users that something is useless has no value because they say that about useful things too.
Moltbot has the shape of the future but doesn’t feel like it to me. Sort of like Langchain once was. Demonstrated some new paradigm shift but is itself flawed so may not be the implementation that lasts. Time will tell.
The only thing here to say is “put it in a VM and try it”. It’s easy to try.
There's people saying AI isn't living up its hype / valuation, I don't see many saying "utterly useless".
And there's plenty who worship at the altar of Claude.
I don’t know how you came to that conclusion from my comment. I’m talking about a particular product named OpenClaw, representing a new style of doing work; not AI in general.
I dropped $200 on Claude Max in my personal capacity to test OpenClaw because I use Opus 4.5 all day in Cursor on an enterprise subscription… because it works for those problems.