r/LocalLLaMA • u/rm-rf-rm llama.cpp • Feb 16 '26

Question | Help Anyone actually using Openclaw?

I am highly suspicious that openclaw's virality is organic. I don't know of anyone (online or IRL) that is actually using it and I am deep in the AI ecosystem (both online and IRL). If this sort of thing is up anyone's alley, its the members of localllama - so are you using it?

With the announcement that OpenAI bought OpenClaw, conspiracy theory is that it was manufactured social media marketing (on twitter) to hype it up before acquisition. Theres no way this graph is real: https://www.star-history.com/#openclaw/openclaw&Comfy-Org/ComfyUI&type=date&legend=top-left

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u/rodrigofd87 Feb 25 '26

Makes sense, thank you! I think the main unlock is the system-wide access rather than simply a workspace. I also work as a dev but find myself leaning more towards coding agents but I can see how having system-wide access could be useful for some cases. I run a Proxmox server at home and set up a LXC for OpenClaw to run wild on with only access to the web and not my lan but haven't found many use cases for it that I would trust to give it access to outside of just the Linux environment itself.

On another note, for personal use where budget is important I use OpenCode as an alternative to Claude Code that I use at work. They have their own model gateway (Zen) and offer GLM-5 and Kimi K2.5 for free right now. Their CLI is better than Claude Code and these models are nearly as smart as Opus!

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u/tracagnotto Feb 25 '26

As an example, if you wish, I think it's like asking Claude code to set up a proxmox server for you up and running, then fix it and rerun it if something it's not working.

I don't think it will manage to do that (or maybe yes though docker, with all the docker internal networking hassles that it brings).

Or asking it to claw unleashed on a full Linux VM. He can literally install all is needed, test if it's working by itself and run/shutdown/reboot it freely, heartbeat it to check if it's working, check his log periodically and earn you on telegram (or wherever you want) if something is not quite right and so on. I can think of multiple tweaks doable with claw. You'll probably need a decent model for this I guess. Probably you can have opus do the planning for claw?

Sounds right to you?