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Stupid stuff openclaw did for me:

- Created its own github account, then proceeded to get itself banned (I have no idea what it did, all it said was it created some new repos and opened issues, clearly it must've done a bit more than that to get banned)

- Signed up for a Gmail account using a pay as you go sim in an old android handset connected with ADB for sms reading, and again proceeded to get itself banned by hammering the crap out of the docs api

- Used approx $2k worth of Kimi tokens (Thankfully temporarily free on opencode) in the space of approx 48hrs.

Unless you can budget $1k a week, this thing is next to useless. Once these free offers end on models a lot of people will stop using it, it's obscene how many tokens it burns through, like monumentally stupid. A simple single request is over 250k chars every single time. That's not sustainable.





This kind of automated task, if not properly optimized, is basically a waste-of-money garbage software. Any bug can cause it to loop until all the money is spent.

I installed it last night. Burned 7M tokens in 45 minutes. I don't even know how. There's no way to see what it's actually doing, as far as I can tell.

What was the task you asked it to do that it decided to do these?

I asked it to get its self set up and ready to be a helpful marketing assistant for a web based product. I'd intentionally kept it vague and told it to be proactive which was probably what caused it. Lesson learnt!

YOLO is a bit of an understatement for this

filing spam issues can easily get the account banned if it annoys the wrong maintainers.

In that case I'm glad they banned it, had no idea it was going to do something so stupid!

Did you give it your credit card?

Wouldn't a crypto wallet with a small amount deposited be smarter?


Nope, Kimi K2.5 is free on opencode at the moment, it was using that.

> and again proceeded to get itself banned by hammering the crap out of the docs api

> Used approx $2k worth of Kimi tokens

Holy shit dude you really should rethink your life decisions this is NUTS


Yeah it didnt cost anything as its free right now, this was literally a test to see what the hype was about. All I'd asked it to do was get its self set up to be a helpful marketing assistant for a web-based product. No specifics or anything, it just decided to be 'helpful'.

> (Thankfully temporarily free on opencode)

they paid $0, it's all VC money printing for now


The carbon and electricity would like to have word



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