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frenchie4111: I found this part interesting: "Inference requests from the agent never leave the sandbox directly. OpenShell intercepts every call and routes it to the NVIDIA cloud provider."Seems like they are doing this to become the default compute provider for the easiest way to set up OpenClaw. If it works out, it could drive a decent amount of consumer inference revenue their way
cactusplant7374: Secure installation isn't the main problem with OpenClaw. This project doesn't seem to be solving a real problem. Of course the real problem is giving an LLM access to everything and hoping for the best.
Iolaum: While I don't have OpenClaw installed and not sure how I 'd use it I doubt all the hype around it is because it doesn't solve a real problem. The project grew to huge popularity organically!!!How can that happen if it doesn't serve a need people have?
the_real_cher: what about just using an unprivileged container and mounting a host folder to run open claw?
tucaz: OpenClaw is so bad with Docker. I spent hours on it and hit road block after road block trying to get the most basic things working.The last one was inability to install dependencies on the docker container to enable plugins. The existing scripts and instructions don’t work (at least I couldn’t get them to work. Maybe a me problem).So I gave up and moved on. What was supposed to be a helpful assistant became a nightmare.
k_bx: Did you try Incus? Gives you VM-like experience in a container
g947o: Maybe let me ask this question:How is this any different from NFT?
PurpleRamen: NFTs can't delete your mails.
brightball: I'm curious if people have had success running it on Cloudflare workers. I know there was a lot of hype about that a few weeks ago.
here2learnstuff: It’s impressive someone early in their career shipped this. There seems to be a stark increase in high-quality AI/data projects from early-career engineers lately and I'm super curious what’s driving that (and honestly speaking: a little jealous).
cj: Sometimes experience (or more so the wisdom you've accumulated over a long career) creates mental blocks / preconceptions about risks or problems you foresee, which makes it harder to approach big scary problems if you're able to anticipate all of the challenges you're likely to hit.Compare that to a smart engineer who doesn't have that wisdom: those people might have an easier time jumping in to difficult problems without the mental burden of knowing all of the problems upfront.The most meaningful technical advances I've personally seen always started out as "let's just do it, it will only take a weekend" and then 2 years later, you find yourself with a finished product. (If you knew it would take 2 years from the start, you might have never bothered)
jjmarr: A lot of senior engineering problems aren't gated by experience but by being trusted to coordinate large numbers of juniors.Now that as a junior, I can spin up a team of AIs and delegate, I can tackle a bunch of senior level tasks if I'm good at coordination.
austinthetaco: I think this is a fundamentally flawed perspective on the role and experience of a senior. It's a managers role to coordinate junior engineers. The difference between junior and senior is knowing where and when to do what at an increasing scale as you gain experience.
blizdiddy: Running OpenClaw is the nerd equivalent of rolling coal
jsolson: I'm trying to put together what you could possibly mean by this -- rolling coal is fundamentally about spite. In isolation, nobody _wants_ their vehicle to spew black smoke. It only comes close to making sense in the context of another population (EV owners, typically, or more generally "the libs").OpenClaw lets people live a bit dangerously, but fundamentally gives them something that they actually wanted. They wanted it so badly that they're willing to take what seem like insane risks to get it.What do the two have in common?
croes: And don’t care about them but they endanger third parties too.And many of them are people who should know better.Let’s make them 100% liable
PurpleRamen: OpenClaw can be useful, in theory, unlike rolling coal. OpenClaw is what people always hoped Siri, Alexa and/or Google Assistant would be, and now it's really here. It may be expensive, has a chance to become your local Skynet and might randomly delete or leak everything that's valuable for you..but I guess this counts as growing pains.
bigfishrunning: > OpenClaw lets people live a bit dangerously, but fundamentally gives them something that they actually wanted. They wanted it so badly that they're willing to take what seem like insane risks to get it.For the first time in my career I feel so incredibly behind on this: What is open claw giving people that they want so badly? It just seems like Russian Roulette, I honestly don't see the upside
ttsalami: I can give you, as an example, what is driving me towards trying it.I work as a contractor for 2 companies, not out of necessity, but greed. I also have a personal project with a friend that is dangerously close to becoming a business that needs attention. I also have other responsibilities and believe it or not - friends. Also the ADHD on top of that.I yearn for a personal assistant. Something or somebody that will read the latest ticket assigned to me, the email with project feedback, the message from my best friend that I haven't replied for the last 3 days and remind me: "you should do this, it's going to take 5 minutes" or "you have to do this today, because tomorrow you are swamped".I have tried so many systems of managing my schedule and I can never stuck with it. I have a feeling that having a bot "reach out", but also be able to be able to do "reasoning" over my pending things would be a game changer.But yes, the russian roulette part is holding me back. I am taking suggestions though
BeetleB: Like with any new tool/technology, you have to try it. And even then the benefits won't be obvious to you until you've played with it for a few days/weeks. With LLMs in general, it took me months before I found real good use cases.Simple example: I tell (with my voice) my OpenClaw instance to monitor a given web site daily and ping me whenever a key piece of information shows up there.The real problem is that it is fairly unreliable. It would often ping me even when the information had not shown up.Another example: I'm particular about the weather related information I want, and so far have not found any app that has everything. I got sick of going to a particular web site, clicking on things, to get this information. So I created a Skill to get what I need, and now I just ask for it (verbally), and I get it.As the GP said. This is what Siri etc should have been.
bigfishrunning: > Simple example: I tell (with my voice) my OpenClaw instance to monitor a given web site daily and ping me whenever a key piece of information shows up there.Maybe i'm just old -- a cron job can fetch the info and push it to some notification service too, without also being a chaos agent. It seems I spend the security cost here, and in return i can save 15 minutes writing a script. Juice doesn't seem to be worth the squeeze.
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yopojones: Riight, unprivileged lxc/lxd container takes 2s to set up. Thanks NV, sticking with opencode.
vonneumannstan: Should be obvious that its tools like Claude Code. If you are a junior dev not experienced in delivering entire products but with good ideas you have incredible leverage now...
BeetleB: > Maybe i'm just old -- a cron job can fetch the info and push it to some notification service too, without also being a chaos agent.Here's a concrete example: A web site showing after school activities for my kid's school. All the current ones end in March, and we were notified to keep a lookout for new activities.So I told my OpenClaw instance to monitor it and notify me ONLY if there are activities beginning in March/April.Now let's break down your suggestion:> a cron job can fetch the info and push it to some notification service too, without also being a chaos agent.How exactly is this going to know if the activity begins in March/April? And which notification service? How will it talk to it?Sounds like you're suggesting writing a script and putting it in a cron job. Am I going to do that every time such a task comes up? Do I need to parse the HTML each time to figure out the exact locators, etc? I've done that once or twice in the past. It works, but there is always a mental burden on working out all those details. So I typically don't do it. For something like this, I wouldn't have bothered - I would have just checked the site every few days manually.Here: You have 15 minutes. Go write that script and test it. Will you bother? I didn't think so. But with OpenClaw, it's no effort.Oh, and I need to by physically near my computer to write the script.Now the OpenClaw approach:I tell it to do this while on a grocery errand. Or while in the office. I don't need to be home.It's a 4 step process:"Hey, can you go to the site and give me all the afterschool activities and their start dates?"<Confirm it does that>"Hey, write a skill that does that, and notifies me if the start date is ...""Hey, let's test the skill out manually"<Confirm skill works>"Hey, schedule a check every 10:30am"And we're done.I don't do this all at once. I can ask it to do the first thing, and forget about it for an hour or two, and then come back and continue.There are a zillion scripts I could write to make my life easier that I'm not writing. The benefit of OpenClaw is that it now is writing them for me. 15 minutes * 1 zillion is a lot of time I've saved.But as I said: Currently unreliable.
embedding-shape: There are four "people" that contributes (https://github.com/NVIDIA/NemoClaw/graphs/contributors) judging by the git commits and the GitHub authors, none of them seem to be novices at programming, what made you write what you wrote here?
Panda4: I think he's talking about the original claw, Open Claw
