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Lars Winstand

Aug 14

I stopped looking for an AI recorder and built a watched-folder pipeline for agent-ready voice notes

#ai #automation #python #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 13

I thought this OpenClaw outage story was hype until I read how it actually worked

#ai #automation #devops #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Aug 13

My local LLM too slow problem got way better when I stopped asking OpenClaw to think about every light switch

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Aug 9

I thought running OpenClaw from my phone was the goal, then I realized the phone should only say yes or no

#ai #automation #devops #openclaw

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Lars Winstand

Aug 9

I thought OpenClaw needed one super-agent but the people winning are running 30

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Aug 8

We wired a ‘cheap’ model into our CRM and accidentally made pricing changes a production risk

#ai #devops #api #automation

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Lars Winstand

Aug 8

I thought AI agent task completion in email meant better drafts, but this excavation company’s 5% inbox proved me wrong

#ai #automation #gmail #devops

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Aug 8

I thought redacting medical notes was enough until I saw what GPT-5 actually needed

#ai #privacy #healthtech #automation

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Aug 7

I stopped letting GPT-5 babysit my inbox and the whole workflow got cheaper and better

#ai #automation #node #productivity

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Aug 7

I stopped trusting system prompt precedence the day my agent learned to ignore me

#ai #security #agents #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 7

I thought OpenClaw was dead until I realized people were just tired of babysitting 18 cron jobs and a self-hosted runtime

#ai #openclaw #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

Aug 6

I stopped letting my WhatsApp agent freestyle and everything got better

#ai #automation #n8n #whatsapp

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Lars Winstand

Aug 6

I read the r/openclaw thread on weird AI automations and the best one wasn’t even flashy

#ai #automation #devops #python

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Lars Winstand

Aug 5

I tried using an AI agent to set up a fresh Windows PC and Reddit was right about Ninite

#ai #windows #automation #devops

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Aug 5

I thought switching from Claude to GPT would fix my agent chaos, but the real fix was cutting turns to 8

#ai #llm #agents #python

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Aug 5

I stopped worrying about rogue AI when I realized the real danger was 1 bad rm -rf

#ai #security #devops #productivity

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Lars Winstand

Aug 4

I tried reading those agent identity scans and realized they’re mostly tests of prompt instruction priority

#ai #agents #security #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 4

Telegram vanished from the App Store and r/openclaw lost it for 41 comments

#devops #ai #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Aug 4

My OpenClaw agent didn’t get dumber — the cap changed and everything fell over

#ai #automation #devops #openai

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Lars Winstand

Aug 3

I thought travel agents were about recommendations until I saw people using OpenClaw to manage trip state with under 7,000 tokens per call

#ai #agents #llm #openai

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Lars Winstand

Aug 3

I think I found the first OpenClaw voice workflow normal people might actually keep

#ai #openclaw #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

Aug 2

I let OpenClaw babysit my home server for 2 weeks and it taught me the right way to trust an AI ops agent

#ai #devops #docker #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Aug 2

My OpenClaw agent “froze” for 20 seconds, and the traces proved it wasn’t Claude

#ai #devops #observability #openai

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Lars Winstand

Aug 2

My agent wasn’t flaky at all — it was booting 30-60 seconds before anything was actually ready

#ai #devops #docker #kubernetes

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Lars Winstand

Aug 1

My fresh OpenClaw install kept failing. The model wasn’t the problem.

#ai #llm #openclaw #ollama

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Aug 1

I stopped building agent teams and started using AI agent delegation with a queue

#ai #agents #automation #n8n

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Lars Winstand

Aug 1

I thought my finance agent was smart until AMZN Mktp US quietly wrecked 3 months of reports

#ai #automation #n8n #postgres

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Jul 31

I think the first AI agent normal people will actually copy is the one that checks websites while they sleep

#ai #automation #webdev #programming

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Lars Winstand

Jul 31

The First Home AI I’d Trust Is a Boring 6am Incident Bot

#ai #automation #homeassistant #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 31

I thought Siri was enough until I mapped the 5-step voice pipeline and realized local-first beats cloud-only for agent workflows

#ai #automation #devops #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Jul 30

OpenClaw’s new extended-stable channel might be the first update policy small agent teams can actually trust

#ai #devops #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Jul 30

I finally saw the first OpenClaw document agent I’d trust at a 30-person company, and it wasn’t because of better RAG

#ai #devops #llm #openclaw

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Jul 30

My AI agent update broke and now it talks in emojis — turns out that’s better UX

#ai #slack #discord #automation

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Jul 29

I finally saw an agent with a phone number that didn’t feel like a gimmick

#ai #automation #twilio #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 29

I think the first AI property research automation you should build is the boring 4-step one

#ai #automation #n8n #openai

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Lars Winstand

Jul 29

Reddit’s 17-upvote OpenClaw migration fix is boring, and that’s why it works

#ai #devops #automation #opensource

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Lars Winstand

Jul 28

14 people on r/openclaw argued about memory and somehow they were all right

#ai #agents #opensource #sqlite

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Jul 28

I finally found an OpenClaw memory setup I’d trust with my real notes

#ai #opensource #sqlite #ollama

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Jul 27

I thought I needed a smarter coding prompt but I actually needed my agent to interrogate me for an hour

#ai #devops #productivity #openai

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Lars Winstand

Jul 27

Our OpenClaw backup looked fine right up until the config vanished

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Lars Winstand

Jul 26

I thought giving my group chat AI assistant Google Calendar would take 5 minutes, and then OAuth humbled me

#ai #oauth #googlecalendar #devops

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Jul 26

I thought my AI coding agent setup needed a swarm, but 1 coder, 1 reviewer, and 1 gate worked better

#ai #openclaw #devops #productivity

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Lars Winstand

Jul 25

My browser agent wasn’t slow because of GPT-5 — it was slow because I kept shoving garbage into the prompt

#ai #llm #automation #webdev

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Jul 25

The first OpenClaw payroll workflow I’d trust is the one that stops before the scary part

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Lars Winstand

Jul 24

I keep seeing managers try to run OpenClaw fleets from Claude Desktop, and it exposes a real hole in agent ops

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Lars Winstand

Jul 24

I thought the safe agent rollback strategy was “don’t touch Kubernetes” and then I saw this OpenClaw + Argo CD setup

#kubernetes #devops #ai #gitops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 24

I really thought a home lab was the cheap cloud GPU for LLM answer until the VRAM math slapped me

#ai #llm #selfhosted #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 23

I stopped trusting AGENTS.md after my agent said “done” 3 times with zero proof

#ai #agents #llm #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 23

I thought desktop copilots would win, then I tried building agents on Android

#android #ai #automation #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 23

I watched a Google AI Pro login break for 3 months and it changed how I think about agent infra

#ai #devops #api #automation

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Lars Winstand

Jul 22

My agent wanted my Instagram password and that was the moment I knew the setup was wrong

#ai #automation #n8n #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 22

I read all 141 comments asking if OpenClaw is dead and the answer is messier than people think

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Lars Winstand

Jul 21

I read the 17-comment Reddit fight about trying Kimi K3 and the answer is way less exciting than people want

#ai #llm #openai #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 21

I learned the hard way that Slack is the worst place to find out your website agent skipped the important part

#ai #devops #automation #api

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Lars Winstand

Jul 20

I thought adding 3 more OpenClaw agents would help but the real problem was AI agent handoff state

#ai #agents #python #architecture

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Lars Winstand

Jul 20

I read the r/openclaw voice thread so you don’t have to — and yeah, the real problem is 10–20 second latency

#ai #openai #automation #webdev

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Lars Winstand

Jul 20

The first OpenClaw setup I’d recommend for a blind parent is not a chatbot

#ai #a11y #opensource #devops

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Lars Winstand

Jul 19

I thought a cheaper model would fix my agent bill, then I found the 34k-character system prompt

#ai #llm #agents #observability

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Lars Winstand

Jul 19

I thought Grok subscriptions were the cheap way to run agents until the limits got weird

#ai #llm #automation #devops

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Jul 18

I think Facebook Marketplace posting is the sleeper real estate AI automation project on OpenClaw (6-step workflow)

#ai #automation #openai #realestate

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