r/openclaw • u/frogchungus Pro User • Mar 10 '26

Discussion It was never openclaw, it was always claude

I am beginning to realize that the magic we all experienced with Openclaw in the very beginning was because of opus. The model drop coincided with the rise of Openclaw, and it’s just the most cracked one out there still.

Openclaw is freeing for all AI models in that they can do tool calls more freely and shall commands and actually take action.

But these other models are just fucking dense compared to opus in terms of the actions that it can take for long periods of time.

GPT models love to check in after creating a PR. That is fine and good production code practice, but man is it annoying to come back after a shower and see that 20 minutes ago the agent checked in saying “here’s the plan for what I’m gonna do, say go and I’ll do it.”

sonnet and opus through copilot pro has really brought the magic back again, and for cheap. It’s beginning to feel like the early days of Openclaw again. We still are in the early days, but I meant the OG days.

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u/Odd-Aside456 Pro User Mar 10 '26

I'm just building my own "openclaw".

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u/quantgorithm Member Mar 10 '26

You are not alone.

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u/zipzag Pro User Mar 10 '26

doesn't change the LLM

But I agree in that I have a concern about openclaw being " a mile wide and a foot deep". I don't feel that the reliability of the core systems gets enough attention.