This may be controversial, but hear me out… OpenClaw is dying if it’s not already dead…
Summary
The article argues that OpenClaw, an open-source AI coding agent, is declining or dead, pointing to its creator Peter Steinberger's move to OpenAI, and the rapid development of competing tools like Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's Codex.
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