Charles McDowell IV

@steipete @EdgeDimi @openclaw Okay. NOW I am amped!!! This is what OpenClaw deserves. Hell yes!

@EdgeDimi @openclaw That's on me. I started hiring people to professionalize this and help with more hands. The May release is the first one where you can feel the difference.

I don’t know what’s going on with the last week of @openclaw releases. The feature direction is genuinely exciting, but the base keeps shifting so fast that every release I tested hit a different foundational break. - v2026.4.27: local memory/search broke because the managed runtime deps did not retain/resolve node-llama-cpp. -v2026.4.29: that class looked fixed, but Discord/Telegram failed on startup because packaged plugin runtime deps missed json5. Repair attempts were not durable. -v2026.5.2: channels could be made healthy only after local patching, but native Codex/tool adoption hit a worse blocker: tools visible in catalog/runtime inspect were missing from tools.effective, so agents could not reliably use memory/wiki tools. These are not edge-case polish issues. They are “can the agent actually operate normally after upgrade?” issues. Right now testing the new features feels impossible. Stability first, then features. Back to v2026.4.26

@bradmillscan Same… Can you submit a pr to fix it? It’s literally always crashing.

the last 2 version of OpenClaw are not working for me. Agent chat has degraded significantly, and I finally found the culprit. context overflow happens because of excessive tool use, and then openclaw re-injects the last message you sent back to the agent. That's why the agent responds to the same thing over and over. I was having this excessive tool use problem back in March when I was last heavily using OpenClaw ... but it was giving me noisy errors ... now it just silently degrades and fails. The root cause of the problem didn't get fixed ... excessive tool use polluting the session and causing context overflow. The failure mode just changed from a warning message to off-by-1 chat degradation.

@openclaw Is there any plan to keep it crashing? OpenClaw has been unusable for the last little while. The gateway constantly crashes, becomes unstable, etc. Wish I could help…

OpenClaw 2026.5.2 🦞 🧠 xAI Grok 4.3 🔌 Plugin installs/updates are sturdier ⚡ Gateway + agent hot paths are leaner 💬 Discord, Slack, Telegram, WhatsApp fixes 🎙️ TTS, Realtime, web search, voice-call polish Less drama. More uptime. github.com/openclaw/openc…

@jordymaui Have you tried Hermes yet?

i've been using my OpenClaw setup since January. but it's time for a change. i've tried so many different tools, plugins & even created my own with my agent Momo. it's been a crazy ride of experimentation but there's been some big flaws in my setup. so i'm sunsetting my agent, momo. whats next? completely rebuilding from scratch. i'll document it all, turn it into useful resources and a great demonstration on HOW to setup an OpenClaw & build a better memory system. but the biggest change? Codex > Claude-Code. GPT > Opus.

@therealkamba @Tekeee Not that hit 9k rpm with a NA motor, sir. No one likes the computers with wheels.

@Tekeee No. There are much nicer cars.

$5M in your account right now Are you spending $250K on a Porsche 911?

@LucidSwans @Tekeee Terrible ROI?! 😂

@Tekeee No sadly not. Would be fun to drive and rent one a few times but no need to own. Terrible ROI. And expensive if an accident happens

@Tekeee 🫡

@ProofofMaro Marketing 👀

What have you put 10,000 hours in?

@VadimStrizheus I get that this is full of hype and all, but at 18 you shouldn’t quit an entry level marketing job unless you are still living with your parents… and if you are still living with your parents, don’t quit your job. Just work more.

I quit my job to be a full-time vibe coder 😭

@venturetwins This is why I switched to Hermes

Planned a day in Amsterdam with the help of my OpenClaw agent Dwayne. He mysteriously shut down and I can’t debug him because the Mac Mini is thousands of miles away. It’s weirdly sad that he can’t read my live updates 😭

@tolibear_ 😂😂

@kshvbgde @sama Tf were you doing to get banned

Hi @sama, would you say it’s about time I switch to chatgpt?

Another OpenClaw release. Another broken gateway. Thankfully Hermes was able to get it fixed for me. 🤘🏼 One day these will be a thing of the past! Both the Hermes and Claw teams are COOKING.

@xav77 @openclaw THIS

@openclaw Does this fix the delay in the chat

@HoopsCrave PLEASE

Elon Musk is said to be purchasing Spirit Airlines, with plans to completely reinvent air travel.

@NousResearch @Shopify This is absolutely nuts LFG

Shopify is the all-in-one commerce platform powering millions of businesses worldwide Thank you to the @Shopify team for building their own official Hermes Agent skill enabling your agent to manage products, orders, inventory, and fulfillments from any channel.

@sflorimm $2-5kish for now. Will be much higher soon.

What's your monthly AI spend?

@MyRecklessHabit @witcheer I have a 256gb m3 Ultra Studio, too. 🤘🏼

@charlesmcdowell @witcheer Sounds like my AMD 395 SoC. Should have just got a Mac Studio.

is a NVIDIA DGX Spark the way to go local? what is the best between 1-2 RTX 3090 vs a DGX Spark? why does I have so many questions?

@witcheer Hope it helps! The Spark is a ton of fun though.

@charlesmcdowell love this feedback!