I felt silly for spending all that effort just driving the bot instead of doing it myself
aeldidi on Hacker News
In the thread “OpenClaw is changing my life”
Helped: Extremely detailed instructions and monitoring thinking output.
Got in the way: Fails or shortcuts tasks in large monorepo despite tests.
… fail or try to shortcut nearly every task I give it, even when using "plan mode" to give it time to come up with a plan before starting. To be fair, I was able to get it to work pretty well after giving it extremely detailed instructions and monitoring the "thinking" output and stopping it when I see something wrong there to correct it, but at that point I felt silly for spending all that effort just driving the bot instead of doing it myself. It almost feels like this is some "open secret" which we're all pretending isn't the case too, since if it were really as good as a lot of people are saying there should be a massive increase in the number of high quality projects/products being developed. …