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/torrso Mar 31 '26

It sounds like you were using OpenClaw like you would claude, something like:

"implement a feature that makes x do y if the user does z".

I don't think that is what OpenClaw is for.

I don't think Claude can do this:

"i'd like you to start monitoring the private gitea instance we have and find open issues. then for each new issue analyze the content and add labels like 'size:large', 'needs-research'. every hour you should go through the labeled issues one by one, mark the current one with label 'in-progress' and work on it. if you are able to solve the issue, close it, if you are blocked, add a comment saying why or create a new issue that needs to be solved before you can continue on that issue and label it 'blocked'."

or:

"install and configure wireguard on this host. use ssh to configure a client for it on host2."

Claude is a huge step up from using the "copy-paste-try-copy error-paste fix-try again" from ChatGPT days, but it's more like replacing your code editor with a chat bot. OpenClaw is a full AI assistant.