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Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1d ago
I stopped trusting app dashboards and used a browser automation AI agent to rebuild the numbers from scratch
A practical DEV.to-style post on using browser automation AI agents as verification layers instead of trusting dashboard summaries. Covers OpenClaw, M
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
3d ago
r/openclaw apologized for moderating too hard and honestly that tells you everything
A moderator apology on r/openclaw turned into a useful lesson for anyone running AI agents: support communities die when posting gets too clean, and a
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
4d ago
My n8n agent rewrote the same 7-task to-do list 4 times until I stopped asking for markdown
A practical DEV post for automation engineers: markdown task lists look readable, but they are a terrible contract for agent workflows. This piece sho
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
2w ago
I read the 21-comment OpenClaw UI thread and I think everyone is arguing about the wrong thing
That 21-comment OpenClaw UI thread is really about product identity. OpenClaw is turning into infrastructure, not just a chat dashboard. For teams run
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
2w ago
I stopped trusting “same answers, fewer tokens” after watching an agent lose 1 field name and burn 3 hours
Context compression is useful, but I stopped trusting the “same answers, fewer tokens” pitch after watching an agent lose one field name and make the
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
2w ago
I read the r/openclaw thread on the best $20 plan and realized everyone is solving the wrong problem
A practical DEV.to rewrite of an r/openclaw discussion: the real problem with choosing a $20 AI plan for OpenClaw isn’t model quality, it’s throughput
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
2w ago
If your agent touches health data, do the boring part first
If your agent touches health data, the trustworthy version is not an AI doctor. It’s a boring pipeline: parse Apple Watch sleep exports, validate rows
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
2w ago
I looked into OpenAI OAuth for OpenClaw, and the scary part isn’t what most people think
I dug into the OpenAI OAuth panic around OpenClaw and came away with a different conclusion: the immediate fear is usually aimed at the wrong layer. O
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
3w ago
My fix for hallucinating case notes was weirdly boring: stop stuffing context and split the job in two
A practical DEV post for engineers building note-to-action workflows: why giant prompts hallucinate, why a two-pass evidence-then-recommendation archi
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
3w ago
I read the 51-comment OpenClaw thread asking for a killer use case and the answer was way more practical than I expected
I read a 51-comment OpenClaw thread looking for a "killer use case" and the real answer was more practical: OpenClaw is strongest on recurring, messy
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
3w ago
I read the 69-comment OpenClaw thread on cheap AI models so you don’t have to
I dug through a 69-comment OpenClaw thread on cheap AI models. The consensus: DeepSeek v4 Flash is the strongest budget pick for agent workflows, but
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I thought the OpenClaw ADHD thread was a joke, then it taught me when agent delegation is worth 5x cost
A practical DEV.to rewrite on what an OpenClaw Reddit thread got right about agent design: branching helps planning, but deterministic tools should ha
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
Codex vs Claude stopped being the wrong question once I split my coding agent into a worker and an advisor
A practical DEV.to-style take on why `codex vs claude` is the wrong framing for coding agents. The better pattern is a cheap worker model for repo edi
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I read the r/openclaw Mac thread so you don’t waste $4k on the wrong LLM box
A practical DEV.to rewrite of the r/openclaw Mac discussion: Macs are fine for local LLMs, but for OpenClaw agent workloads the real bottleneck is usu
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
My fix for OpenAI API quota exceeded wasn’t a better dashboard, it was routing my agents away from the fire
A practical DEV.to-style post for engineers running n8n, Zapier, Make, OpenClaw, or custom agents: why OpenAI 429/quota errors are usually an architec
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I finally understood what OpenClaw is good at after reading this 27-upvote Reddit thread
A practical DEV.to rewrite of a Reddit-driven insight: OpenClaw works best as an execution layer, not your main build environment. Build and debug wit
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
r/openclaw had 40 comments about “better alternatives” and the mods are only half right
A Reddit thread about banned OpenClaw alternatives turns into a better question for developers: when users ask for alternatives, are they really unhap
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I keep seeing people build an AI lead processing agent when they really need a 6-step rules engine
Most AI lead processing flows in underwriting should be deterministic first. Use Claude, GPT-5, Grok, or Qwen for messy extraction, then hand off to e
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I thought multi-agent orchestration meant agents should talk more — 2 Reddit threads convinced me the opposite is usually better
I used to think better multi-agent orchestration meant more real-time agent chat. After reading a couple of OpenClaw Reddit threads, I think the oppos
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I think the real AI agent war is who owns your inbox, browser, and calendar
A practical DEV post arguing that the real AI agent battle is not model leaderboards but control over workflow surfaces like inbox, browser, calendar,
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
🤖 AI Agents & Automation
⚡ AI Lesson
1mo ago
I thought we needed another agent framework — turns out we needed a job_id and a boring config folder
Most agent teams don’t actually have a framework problem. They have an operations problem. This post breaks down why long-running agents fail on routi
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I read the OpenClaw thread everyone shared — these 5 fixes cut agent costs to one-third and stopped the loops
A practical DEV.to rewrite of a popular OpenClaw discussion: 5 concrete fixes for long-running agents that cut spend to one-third and stop loops. Cove
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I kept seeing the same OpenClaw mistake: one expensive model for every job
OpenClaw users keep making the same costly mistake: using one premium model for every task. This post breaks down why heartbeat checks, cron jobs, tag
Dev.to · Lars Winstand
1mo ago
I thought my bot needed a better prompt, but TikTok’s 20 RPM limit and WhatsApp’s service window were the real problem
If your social reply bot keeps breaking across Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and TikTok, the problem is probably not GPT-5 or Claude. It’s orchestrat
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