10 OpenClaw Lessons for Building Agent Teams
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Today on the AI Daily Brief, 10 open-claw and agent orchestration tips. The AI Daily Brief is a daily podcast and video about the most important news and discussions in AI.
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It's now been a little over a month since the initial burst of excitement around OpenClaw. And this would be the time that you started to see people get disaffected. A normal hype cycle would tend to see people coming out of the woodwork at this point saying, here's all the ways this is actually much harder and less useful than the people who are telling you that story are actually letting on. And to be fair, there is absolutely some of that and not from AI haters or anything like that. Peter Levels, one of the best known and most admired solopreneurs out there, recently tweeted about his experience with OpenClaw. which sort of comes down to just meh. Peter said that he's run OpenClaw for over a month.
He's had it in a group chat with 26 friends who all played with it, tried to hack it. He made a cool game, tried to make it make its own money, but ultimately found that his most used use case is actually a girlfriend who uses his OpenClaw via Telegram instead of ChatGPT. Basically, his girlfriend prefers the interface of using Telegram as opposed to the native app interface, and because she also uses Nanobanana Pro, she can do that from there without having to switch between different models. Peter writes, essentially 99% of the purpose of OpenClaw, for her at least, is that it's just a really good implementation of an LLM app over Telegram in our native chat interface. All the other stuff isn't important, and she doesn't use that, and I don't use it.
Now, he talks about how there are certain other things that he could see being useful if the models were just a little bit smarter, but ultimately are not for him right now, like briefings of news and conversations on X. Ultimately, he concludes, TLDR, just the best LLM experience on Telegram right now, better than the LLM apps, also helps it is just a continuous convo going on forever. Now he qualifies, I do think this is the direction everything will be going. Like you have autonomous agents just managing your life based on intents you set. We're just in the hype stage of it now and it doesn't work so well yet, but that's obvious. And like I said, there are plenty of takes out there like that.
Even the folks who are getting a lot of value out of this thing are not pretending that it's super easy to do so. Tom Osmond writes, everyone I know who has gotten to a good open clause setup has chewed glass for four weeks. It's a battle, but it's worth it in every way. Wichir writes, I've been running OpenClaw on a Mac mini M4 for over a month as well, and here's my honest take. It still doesn't feel like a fully autonomous agent. You either tell it what to do or wait for its cron jobs to surface something and then tell it what to do with it. The fully hands-off version doesn't exist yet. It is incredibly useful on the research and education side. It scans everything happening on the internet and the sectors you care about, so you're always aware with what's going on.
You learn passively just by reading the news it surfaces for you every day. Three, you will learn more about LLM's AI agent setup and hardware by simply trying to get an OpenClaw running than from any course or article.
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