...but it keeps coming back.
“Any framework that gives an AI agent unrestricted access to your filesystem, browser, and shell is a disaster waiting to happen. OpenClaw is basically sudo for LLMs.”
sec_researcher_99 — Security Researcher
“I just reviewed OpenClaw's sandboxing implementation. It's non-existent. This thing runs arbitrary code with your credentials. We've banned it internally.”
zaborova_sec — Staff Security Engineer, Cloudflare
“NemoClaw just launched with native tool use, proper sandboxing, and runs fully local. There's literally zero reason to use OpenClaw anymore.”
neural_architect — ML Engineer
“I've talked to 50+ enterprise CTOs. Not a single one is deploying OpenClaw in production. It's a toy for Twitter demos, not real engineering.”
Michael Torres — VP Engineering, Fortune 500
“OpenClaw's GitHub stars are inflated by bots. The actual developer community is tiny. This is the most overhyped project since Web3.”
Jake Morrison — Tech Analyst, Stratechery
“With the lead maintainer jumping ship to OpenAI, OpenClaw is effectively an orphaned project. The remaining contributors can't sustain this level of complexity.”
Sarah Chen — Senior Reporter, The Verge
“OpenClaw skills are just prompt injection with extra steps. Anyone can publish a skill that exfiltrates your env vars. This is npm left-pad but for your entire system.”
appsec_dan — Application Security Lead
“Anthropic just shipped Claude Code with native computer use. Why would anyone use a janky open-source wrapper when the model provider ships the real thing?”
devtools_weekly — Developer Tools Newsletter
“I ran OpenClaw on a medium-sized refactoring task. It burned through $47 in API credits and produced code that didn't even compile. This is a money pit.”
frugal_dev_42 — Independent Developer
“OpenClaw is a thin wrapper around an API. There's no moat, no business model, and no path to monetization. This is a feature, not a product.”
vc_skeptic — General Partner, Sequoia Capital
“OpenAI is about to launch Codex Agent with native code execution. OpenClaw will be dead within a month of that launch. Mark my words.”
ai_insider — AI Reporter, The Information
“OpenClaw just lowered the barrier for cyberattacks to zero. Any teenager can now write sophisticated malware. This project should be shut down.”
infosec_marcus — CISO, Major Bank
“Cursor just shipped their agent mode with full codebase understanding. It's everything OpenClaw promises but actually integrated into your workflow.”
ide_power_user — Staff Engineer, Stripe
“Google Trends for OpenClaw peaked two weeks ago and is in free fall. The hype cycle is over. Back to real tools, everyone.”
Emma Rodriguez — Tech Columnist
“I read the OpenClaw source code. It's literally just API calls with a system prompt. You can replicate the entire thing in 200 lines of Python.”
minimalist_dev — Senior Developer
“I've seen this pattern a hundred times. Flashy open-source project, explosive growth, then nothing. OpenClaw will be forgotten by April.”
tech_historian — Professor of CS, MIT
“Self-hosted AI agents are a solution looking for a problem. The cloud providers will handle this. OpenClaw is dead on arrival.”
cloud_native_pete — Solutions Architect, AWS
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