alt Hacker NewsThe main function of OpenClaw was for people to signal how advanced and cutting edge and thought-leader-y they were. All those Mac minis are sitting idle now.
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That's a fair assessment if you look at LinkedIn posts.
Personally though, I am finding it incredibly useful and I use it daily to assist with operations, strategy, sales.
To be fair, my mac mini was sitting idle well before Openclaw arrived on the scene.
Some truth to that. I hear it thrown around the office and everyone feels obligated to out agent each other (without actually proving a great use case)
For myself I don't need autonomous agents. I need a smaller version of Claude Code instead (the mcp client not the coding agent) that can run on local models that are under 24B params. I still need to try pi dev.
Running neofetch equiv
Yeah, people really took it to the extreme and made a cult out of it for no reason. Mass delusion at its finest.
I bought a Mac mini m4 before openclaw to use as a music production machine, when it turned out not to work out I tried setting up openclaw on it after hearing all the noise, but that turned out not to work out either.
I’ve found a much better use for it now. I use it as a Tailscale + ssh + tmux + Claude code machine, which gives me an always on Claude code environment with persistent sessions. I ssh from my phone using termius and from my laptop through ssh, and I can even access my projects through Tailscale with hot reloading for the most part, no deploy needed. It’s really good and my mini isn’t idle at all.