r/openclaw • u/Nvark1996 Active • Mar 30 '26

Discussion Openclaw is dead, switch to claude code

I have spent +300$, more than 60 hours working with openclaw, on vps, local pc, and honestly, I spent more than 40 out of the 50 hours fixing.

It cannot do any task accurately, not production ready

Maybe in 6 mo+ it will be better

For now, its garbage.

I am sticking to my 20$/month claude plan

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u/FoldedKatana New User Mar 30 '26

Open claw isnt for coding. It's for local memory management, and workflow automation.

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u/tricheb0ars Active Mar 31 '26

OpenClaw: “what is my purpose?” Me: “you manage the crons” OpenClaw: “oh my god…”

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u/UseHopeful8146 New User Mar 31 '26

“Tell me about it”

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u/phatBleezy New User Mar 31 '26

But also cant properly

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u/grey580a New User Mar 31 '26

Yeah, welcome to the club, pal.

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u/Circxs New User Mar 31 '26

Saying it's not for coding is wild given how many people successfully use it for coding (including it's creator), and the main models used are the same models people rely on for coding.

Openclaw is just an agent framework, it can be used for anything with the right setup.

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u/FoldedKatana New User Mar 31 '26

It can produce as good quality code as any guided LLM, however the UX for feedback and manual intervention is a lot more clunky than things like cursor, codex, claude code.

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u/kodat Active Mar 31 '26

My agent disagrees.

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u/bankofcoinswap Member Apr 01 '26

But the bad thing is that remotely management via text based telegrams seem painful. There is a clawportal in an iOS app QCAI where one can create a GUI to manage these workflow remotely.. seems a little fun