Personal Experience with OpenClaw: A Transformative AI Coding Tool
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novoreorx
Crusty in the right places. Worth the chew.
Summary
The author shares their personal experience with OpenClaw, an AI coding tool that they find transformative compared to previous AI coding assistants like Claude Code and Cursor. While previous tools made coding easier, the author felt they were still doing the actual writing and execution. OpenClaw represents a significant shift by truly automating coding tasks in a way that changes their workflow fundamentally.
Key quotes
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Sure, agentic coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor have made writing code easier, but at the end of the day, I was still the one writing.
It might look like the AI is doing the work, but 'writing' is a broad term—writing is execution. As the person making code happen, I'm the one writing.
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