Fascinated by OpenClaw and the hype around it. My non-technical friend bought a Mac Mini specifically to run it for day trading.
A Mac Mini. For day trading. With a computer use agent.
Computer use agents are having their mainstream moment. Claude Cowork, Perplexity Computer, et al. The capability is basically commoditized now. Point an agent at a screen, let it click around. Cool demo.
But who is OpenClaw actually for?
The pitch is: if there's no API, the agent just uses the UI like a human would.
Which sounds magical until you realize the reason most things don't have APIs is because they're slow, brittle, and built on interfaces that break every other update. Your agent is now as fragile as the thing it's automating.
If you're technical, you're already building this. If you're not technical, you're about to get sold a solution by a middleman agency.
Yesterday it was n8n that was going to get you to PMF. Now it's OpenClaw. Same consultants shilling. Different landing page.
The pattern is always the same: genuinely interesting capability, real use cases at the edges, massive overpromising in the middle, and a cottage industry of agencies charging startups to implement community template demoes.
Computer use is the next meaningful capability unlock after code gen; automating the long tail of things that will never get a proper API. That's real.
But I'd hold off on the Mac Mini making you a billionaire.
Interesting to see how this one plays out.
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