Nick Strada

Anyone else have this happen with their #openclaw ? Streaming repetition loops bypass idle timeout; no semantic circuit breaker or context sanitization #63411 Basically, infinite, futile loops make LLM money printer go "brrrrr" @openclaw github.com/openclaw/openc…

Fly, baby, Fly.

I definitely don't understand the design deeply enough yet. I am a hobbyist not an engineer. My 🦞 thinks that Compaction was firing too late. So sessions would choke before gracefully compacting. Context would fill to 100% and crash instead of compacting at 70%. Could there a way to trigger compaction at a specific memory percentage threshold rather than time-based? Or would that just bake-in cruft that results from bad structure? Thank you for building this, and for replying. Maybe I just need to keep failing and learning until you release the productized version for idiots.

@strada @JohnnyNel_ tbh it sounds like you don't understand a lot about the design. Agents will happily lie to you unless you tell them to write stuff to a file (hello agents.md). Different channels are isolated on purpose, and to save context/token. You can use agent2agent or write to a file.

@steipete i've been playing with #openclaw since it was clawdbot. I've spent thousands and thousands of dollars on tokens. Mostly administering my own openclaw. it's fabulous and fascinating and I'm learning a ton about how agents work. But everything keeps breaking all the time, memory blowing up to 300%, context, windows, getting choked, sessions going stale everything always falling apart. I might be stupid, but is this common? I read about your experience and it just sounds like everything magically fixed and grew and patched itself. I'm sure that's not true but is there a place you can send me to learn? I've torn everything down and built it from scratch five times now.

@JohnnyNel_ @steipete @adnys are you having better luck than me? I've been running it on a pi, an old macbook, amazon, a mini and it always ends up in absolute chaos

Go on! I feel like I get everything working and humming and then it all just goes to shit. It never remembers the repairs we've made. It's never follows the instructions in . Different channels have no idea what the others are doing. My para memory structure doesn't help. And it lies to me all the time saying that everything's fixed when it isn't. To say that it's resulting in self loathing isn't an exaggeration.

At least 80 to 90% of what I do on open claw is trying to fix open claw. Am I alone?

I'm totally serious. There needs to be a support group for people who just fail and fail and fail at getting open claw working on anything meaningful, despite spending hundreds of hours, thousands of dollars, and being reasonably intelligent

🚨 do you understand what Karpathy just said.. the guy who co-founded OpenAI.. led AI at Tesla.. one of the best engineers alive.. built an app with AI.. and said the code was the easy part.. the hard part was Stripe.. auth.. DNS.. databases.. deploying it.. connecting 15 different services that all have different dashboards and different docs and different billing pages.. AI can write your entire app in 20 minutes.. but it still can't click "confirm email" on Vercel.. so the thing that's "replacing developers" can't do the thing developers actually spend 80% of their time doing.. vibe coding didn't kill software engineering.. it just proved that coding was never the job.. the job was dealing with the mess around the code.. and that mess is still 100% human.

🦞🦞🦞 Every day I get notifications that a few more contacts have joined Telegram. These people are increasingly non-technical. #openclaw is spreading to the normies 🦞🦞🦞

California has increased spending by 75% in six years. Are your bills 75% cheaper? Are our schools 75% better? No. Because the problem isn’t how much we spend — it’s how we spend it. And I’ll only spend taxpayer dollars on policies that actually make people’s lives better. Plan out tomorrow. Thanks for the conversation @friedberg!

@adnys Shasta

@strada softball geographic trivia for ya: Name that 🌋

I've stopped thinking much about the model and started completely obsessing about the harness. My real fear is I'm gonna spend a few more thousand dollars in tokens only to watch the hyperscalers roll out a series of very capable and very stable products. Maybe I'll always be a homebrew guy though

@verymidengineer Disagree

don’t let @garrytan see this

I've moved from excitement about the models to obsession over the harness. I'm spending every spare cycle thinking about how I can: Decompose the work. Parallelize the execution. Verify the results. Iterate to completion. The rest is parlor tricks.🦞🦞

Yesterday Mark Cuban reposted my work, DM'd me, and told me to keep telling my story. So here it is. I'm a Master Electrician. IBEW Local 369. 15 years pulling wire in Kentucky. Zero coding background. I didn't go to Stanford. I went to trade school. Every week I'd show up to a home where someone just bought a Tesla or a Rivian. And every time, someone had already told them they needed a $3,000-$5,000 panel upgrade to install a charger. 70% of the time? They didn't need it. The math is in the NEC — Section 220.82. Load calculations. But nobody was doing them for homeowners. Electricians upsell. Dealers don't know. And the homeowner just pays. I got angry enough to build something about it. I found @claudeai. No coding experience. I just started talking to it like I'd explain a job to an apprentice. "Here's how load calcs work. Here's the NEC code. Now help me build a tool that does this." 6 months later — @ChargeRight is live. Real software. Stripe payments. PDF reports. NEC 220.82 calculations automated. $12.99 instead of a $500 truck roll. I'm still pulling wire. I still take service calls. I wake up at 5:05 AM for work. But something shifted. Yesterday @vivilinsv published my story as Claude Builder Spotlight #1. Mark Cuban saw it. The Claude community showed up. And for the first time, I felt like this thing I built in my kitchen might actually matter. I'm not a tech founder. I'm a dad who wants to coach little league and be home for dinner. I just happened to build something that helps people. If you're in the trades and thinking about using AI — do it. The barrier isn't technical skill. It's believing you're allowed to try. EVchargeright.com

@scaling01 found the mirror. cracked the encryption. solved the test. and we're still writing 'please' in our prompts.

Wait. It is a band. Respect. discogs.com/artist/6658387…

Itano Circus was a killer animation style in the 80's. It would be a better band name. youtube.com/watch?v=_MEuO6…

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