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Lars Winstand

May 22

r/openclaw had 40 comments about “better alternatives” and the mods are only half right

#ai #agents #automation #api

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Lars Winstand

May 22

I keep seeing people build an AI lead processing agent when they really need a 6-step rules engine

#ai #automation #devops #webdev

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Lars Winstand

May 21

I finally get why every serious browser agent demo looks a little cursed

#ai #automation #api #developers

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Lars Winstand

May 21

I thought multi-agent orchestration meant agents should talk more — 2 Reddit threads convinced me the opposite is usually better

#ai #agents #automation #openai

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Lars Winstand

May 21

I read the r/openclaw thread asking if anyone has a fully working setup and the answer is weirdly yes

#ai #agents #opensource #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 20

I read the 33-comment Reddit fight about Google Spark vs OpenClaw and the real debate is way weirder

#ai #llm #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

May 20

I think the real AI agent war is who owns your inbox, browser, and calendar

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 20

I thought we needed another agent framework — turns out we needed a job_id and a boring config folder

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

May 20

I read the OpenClaw thread everyone shared — these 5 fixes cut agent costs to one-third and stopped the loops

#ai #agents #automation #openclaw

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May 19

I kept seeing the same OpenClaw mistake: one expensive model for every job

#ai #openai #automation #devops

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May 19

Anthropic changed the rules on June 15 and exposed the biggest lie in agent pricing

#ai #agents #api #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 19

I thought my bot needed a better prompt, but TikTok’s 20 RPM limit and WhatsApp’s service window were the real problem

#ai #automation #api #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 19

Self-hosted agents aren’t private if OpenClaw still sends your notes to GPT-5

#ai #privacy #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

May 19

I read the 17-comment r/openclaw thread about talking to OpenClaw and everyone was arguing about the wrong thing

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 18

I stopped fighting the Anthropic API rate limit when I realized one model shouldn’t do every job

#ai #api #anthropic #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 18

I thought the $1.3M OpenAI bill was the story, then I looked at what 100 agents actually do all day

#ai #api #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 18

My agent remembered the whole meeting and still forgot the 5 parts that mattered

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 18

OpenClaw told me it failed its own trust test, and that’s the real story

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

May 16

I read the 35-comment OpenClaw upgrade meltdown so you don’t have to

#devops #ai #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

May 16

I read the 32-comment OpenClaw fight about GPT 5.5 and I think people are blaming the wrong thing

#ai #agents #openai #automation

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Lars Winstand

May 15

I kept seeing people ask if OpenClaw is secure, but the real email risk is way more boring

#ai #security #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

May 15

I priced out self-hosted AI agents on a mini PC and realized I was about to spend my weekend, not save money

#ai #selfhosted #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

May 15

I kept chasing the cheapest model and realized I actually wanted boring OpenAI API pricing

#ai #api #automation #openai

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Lars Winstand

May 15

I read the 49-comment OpenClaw meltdown and the real problem isn’t just OpenClaw

#ai #agents #openai #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I thought LLM tool calling would kill glue code and then my lights still wouldn’t turn on

#ai #llm #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I went looking for flashy agents and found 5 boring automations people actually keep

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I thought Claude Code vs Codex was about model IQ until I watched one prompt eat 53% of a session

#ai #llm #devtools #agents

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Lars Winstand

May 14

That viral r/openclaw Claude subscription post with 21 upvotes is way less exciting than it sounds

#ai #openclaw #claude #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I read the 107-comment OpenClaw garlic thread and yeah, the real bug wasn’t garlic

#ai #automation #agents #openclaw

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I read the OpenClaw garlic thread so you don’t have to — the real bug wasn’t the garlic

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 14

That 40-heads-of-garlic OpenClaw post is funny until you realize what actually broke

#ai #agents #automation #openclaw

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Lars Winstand

May 14

My favorite OpenClaw thread this week was the guy who accidentally bought 40 heads of garlic

#ai #automation #openclaw #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 14

I read the r/openclaw garlic thread so you don’t have to, and yeah, the agent wasn’t the real problem

#ai #automation #agents #openclaw

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Lars Winstand

May 12

My OpenClaw agent looked idle overnight and still burned through tokens

#ai #agents #devops #openai

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May 12

Why does nobody talk about how expensive idle OpenClaw agents are?

#ai #agents #openclaw #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 12

Test post — please ignore (auto-publish test)

#test

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Lars Winstand

May 3

I thought multi-agent meant more prompts until I saw 3 ways OpenClaw users are actually splitting the work

#ai #openclaw #agents #devops

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Lars Winstand

May 2

I found the dumbest way to burn 500 LLM calls a day: polling an inbox every 5 minutes

#ai #automation #devops #webdev

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