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0 pointsblenderob25d ago0 comments

> There's a reason it has so many stars and most of the people getting something out of it are not posting on X.

That reason is buying stars, agent swarms, and astroturing.

No project gathers 200K stars genuinely in 3 months. There are far more useful and popular projects that need 10 years to get 200K stars. When you see a project like this get 200K stars in just 3 months, you know something is very fishy.

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elp24d ago

Most of those stars were on the first weekend. It's impossible to get that many stars that quickly in any remotely organic way.

adampunk24d ago

Yes, you’re right. It’s the children who are wrong.

Why is it so difficult to imagine that something that looks popular and fun is popular and fun?

Also, really who is paying for stars on open claw? Who benefits here?

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skeledrew24d ago

Or you're just missing the generally wide appeal of the project.

Sharlin24d ago

There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it.

For a comparison, the local image gen interfaces ComfyUI and A1111 WebUI have a huge amount of stars (~100k and 160k respectively, accrued since 2022 or so), but they allow you to create porn customized to whatever kinks you have, not just automate things for the sake of automation. One of those is a rather bigger value prop than the other, dopamine-wise.

tmp1042328844224d ago

Why would they be running local AI models? The creator of OpenClaw explicitly recommends against running OpenClaw using local LLM models at this time, because they're not as powerful as frontier models as well as much more gullible to prompt injection and the like.

LanceJones24d ago

There's no need to run local models with OpenClaw. I use Anthropic's oAuth Max20 Plan subscription via their SDK...

kaashif24d ago

I bet if people could star repos anonymously those porn repos would have more stars.

lovich24d ago

> There just aren't enough hobbyists in the world running local AI models, never mind technically savvy enough to hack something like OpenClaw and be really excited about it.

No you dont understand, just because there are X people capable of doing this and my project got (X + YX) stars in 3 months, that only means that my project is very popular and there are no shenanigans occurring _at all_

If you suggest otherwise you are a luddite who doesnt understand and probably hates progress.

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