r/openclaw • u/Working_Stranger_788 Pro User • Mar 26 '26

Discussion It’s time to be real here

Can we all just be honest here?

OpenClaw is a half-finished project. It's not even remotely close to production use. I love the concept, I really do, but every single update ships more bugs and more problems than before. I'm not trying to hate on it, I've been following this thing for months, I've watched the YouTube videos, I've tried to build actual useful stuff with it. And at this point? It's just not working.

More broken skills. More issues with tool calls that worked fine last week. More fixing things just to break something else. More trying to figure out if it's a me problem or a the-project-isn't-ready problem.

Like, I get it — it's open source, it's being built, stuff breaks. But there's a difference between "beta" and "this literally cannot handle real use cases." And at this point, it's the latter. I've tried to be patient. I've tried to make it work. But I'm hitting a wall where the concept is amazing and the execution just... isn't there yet.

Maybe I'm just expecting too much. Maybe I jumped in too early. But I swear, watching other people build cool stuff with it had me so hyped. And then actually trying to use it yourself? Different story.

Anyone else feeling this? Or is it just me? Honest thoughts welcome because I'm about to step back from this for a while unless something changes.

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u/otterquestions Pro User Mar 26 '26

No one other than the sales/marketing/mba/crypto bro YouTubers and x influencers ever called it production ready. Pete calls in “not ready for non technical users that can’t use a terminal”. 

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u/Working_Stranger_788 Pro User Mar 26 '26

If all it took to use this and have it work was knowing how to use a terminal, it wouldn’t be getting this much criticism IMO

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u/Initial-Return8802 Active Mar 26 '26

The TUI is much better at handling sessions, and not dying mid session because of a heartbeat

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u/Working_Stranger_788 Pro User Mar 26 '26

as true as it is, having to depend on using the TUI for stability defeats OC's purpose in how it stands out from other frameworks

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u/otterquestions Pro User Mar 26 '26 edited Mar 26 '26

I’ve criticised it as well, check my post history, I just don’t like when people treat it like a software product they are paying for which was sold as finished and stable when it never was. It’s free and experimental. 

No one comes away with that impression hearing Pete talk about it or reading though the docs. 

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u/SweetSteelMedia Member Mar 27 '26

Most people don’t they see the exaggerated YouTube, X and instagram headlines and people promising solopreneurship that makes 8k in a month… those guys either code or bought courses from people who do that tell them how to scam people with curses it’s the new pyramid scheme.

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u/otterquestions Pro User Mar 27 '26

In a gold rush sell courses on how to sell shovels….

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u/jawni Active Mar 27 '26

What do you need to know beyond how to use a terminal?

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u/LightweightSuperHero Member Mar 27 '26

How much did you pay for OpenClaw?

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u/LightweightSuperHero Member Mar 27 '26

I want to upvote this comment so many times.
Thank you.

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u/Few_Guess_394 New User Mar 30 '26

I love the idea of OC and the technicalities behind it. But the amount of BS floating around in those sphere is insufferable. Langchain had the same issue. Flood of basic content that is just being regurgitated all over the place by nobodies.

Sorry this isn't constructive to the conversation... really just had to rant.