alt Hacker NewsWith OpenClaw we are seeing how the app layer becomes as important as the model layer.
You can switch models multiple times (online/proprietary, open weight, local), but you have one UI : OpenClaw.
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Indeed, coding agents took off because of a lot of ongoing trial and error on how to build the harness as much as model quality.
This is the sort of thing employers are failing on. They sign contracts that assume employees are going to be logging in and asking questions directly.
But if I don’t have a url for my IDE (or whatever) to call, it isn’t useful.
So I use Ollama. It’s less helpful, but ensure confidentiality and compliance.
openclaw is just one of many now, there are new ones weekly.
? We saw this years/months ago with Claude Code and Cursor.
There’s actually many UI’s now? See moltis, rowboat, and various others that are popping up daily
> You can switch models multiple times (online/proprietary, open weight, local), but you have one UI : OpenClaw.
It’s only been a couple months. I guarantee people will be switching apps as others become the new hot thing.
We saw the same claims when Cursor was popular. Same claims when Claude Code was the current topic. Users are changing their app layer all the time and trying new things.