Openclaw who?

One benefit of being a bit slow to jump on the latest hype is that it saves a lot of energy. In the attached chart, we see Google interest on the search term openclaw, the name of the agent created by Austrian Peter Steinberger late last year, leading to his getting hired by OpenAI and people falling over themselves declaring the end of computing as we know it.

Well, the chart tells a different story: Search interest over the last three months, has fallen by 90%. It seems excitement over openclaw is waning. So either absolutely everybody has already installed openclaw and therefore doesn't need to google it anymore, or interest just isn't there.

That's not to say that agents like openclaw aren't the future. It just means adoption is much slower and more cautious than the hype would have us believe. In my case, experimenting a bit with openclaw, I found that the time spent setting up certain recurring automations wasn't justified by the quality of the solution (and the cost for it).

Again, I'm not saying openclaw is usless, it's just that it's far from the one-size-fits-all solution to all our AI and automation needs, especially given the security concerns. It doesn't help that installing and setting it up is still very rough, bug-prone and not an easy feat for non-technical users. In many cases, too, straightforward programmatic automation rather than a non-deterministic agent with access to everything, is the better strategy anyway.

I want to hear from you: Have you tried openclaw or something similar? Has it become an indispensable part of your workflow or have you given up on it?