Odaily Editorial Team Tea Talk (March 11)
- Core Viewpoint: This article shares industry insiders' observations on the current state of OpenClaw (AI Agent) applications, suggesting it remains an intermediate-stage product with limited value for average users, and faces challenges related to security, permissions, and potential future integration into native large model functionalities.
- Key Elements:
- The current core application scenarios for OpenClaw are concentrated in 24/7 news aggregation, investment research assistance, and personal life automation. While helpful for improving trading efficiency, it struggles to directly create more wealth.
- Its core advantage lies in supporting scheduled tasks and continuous background operation, which is valuable for advanced users pursuing automation, though most functions can also be achieved through conversational large models.
- Power users generally believe OpenClaw has security and permission issues and is merely a transitional form of AI Agent, likely to be integrated and replaced by native functionalities in future large models like GPT-5.
- Market attention has partially shifted towards prediction markets related to geopolitical conflicts, but the author personally prefers participating in event predictions with lower uncertainty, such as the Oscars.
- The article mentions a view on CRCL (Circle)'s price rebound, with some institutions setting targets as high as $190. However, the author's personal judgment is more cautious, believing risks increase above $170.
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Wenser (X: @wenser2010)
Introduction: Crypto abstractionist, crypto enthusiast for fun, sharp-tongued critic
Sharing: 1. After late January, OpenClaw experienced its own "public discussion frenzy." I've been researching it these past couple of days as well. My preliminary conclusion after looking into it is: ordinary people might as well make good use of Claude Code or Codex. The current OpenClaw, besides permission and security issues, is primarily still an intermediate-stage product; it hasn't reached a state where it can seamlessly integrate with workflows and actual needs. However, it's still good to learn about it. I recommend this PPT introduction by a friend, Huasheng; it explains things quite clearly. "The 98-Page OpenClaw Orange Paper" https://my.feishu.cn/wiki/H27Iw9 UssiaYbokymhncExtjnAh?from=from_copylink
2. Besides AI, the market's main attention is currently on the US-Iran, Iran-Israel conflicts, etc. So prediction markets are another unavoidable topic. However, compared to high-uncertainty betting events like war, I personally think the Oscar predictions are more suitable for me. So I placed bets on Best Picture - "Fight Again"; Best Actor - Paul Jordan; Best Supporting Actor - Sean Penn.
3. Circle (CRCL) price is still in a continuous rebound. Some institutions believe the target price could potentially reach $190. In the last couple of days, it once bounced to nearly $125. My personal judgment is it could reach $150, and optimistically could reach $170, but $190 is quite risky. For reference only, not investment advice.
golem (X: @web3_golem)
Introduction: The whimsical thoughts of golem
Sharing: Last week, I chatted with some OpenClaw experts within the crypto circle. Some common conclusions obtained are as follows:
1. The main scenarios where everyone uses OpenClaw are 7*24-hour news scraping and summarization, investment research assistance, and personal life automation scenarios like weather reports. As for trading crypto for profit, OpenClaw can improve the efficiency of some news-based trades, but beyond that, it can't do much more.
2. Most of OpenClaw's use cases can also be achieved by users using conversational large language models or Manus, etc. What makes OpenClaw special is its ability to support scheduled tasks and run continuously in the background. This is only of great value to a very small minority of advanced users pursuing automation efficiency.
3. Although most interviewees were deep OpenClaw users, they all gave the judgment that ordinary people don't need to use OpenClaw. Furthermore, they believe OpenClaw is also just an intermediate form product of AI Agents, still having many issues with security and permissions. Soon, large model manufacturers will also integrate these capabilities (like GPT-5.4), thereby replacing OpenClaw.
4. One interviewee currently studying in Silicon Valley, USA, observed that although most people are using AI, it's far from generating a public "raising lobsters" frenzy like in China. They believe the essence is that the domestic environment spreads too much anxiety about AI replacing people, causing everyone to start competing on cognitive understanding.
