Lars Winstand - DEV Community

Lars Winstand

Jul 26

I thought giving my group chat AI assistant Google Calendar would take 5 minutes, and then OAuth humbled me

#ai #oauth #googlecalendar #devops

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Jul 26

I thought my AI coding agent setup needed a swarm, but 1 coder, 1 reviewer, and 1 gate worked better

#ai #openclaw #devops #productivity

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Jul 25

My browser agent wasn’t slow because of GPT-5 — it was slow because I kept shoving garbage into the prompt

#ai #llm #automation #webdev

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Jul 25

The first OpenClaw payroll workflow I’d trust is the one that stops before the scary part

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Jul 24

I keep seeing managers try to run OpenClaw fleets from Claude Desktop, and it exposes a real hole in agent ops

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Jul 24

I thought the safe agent rollback strategy was “don’t touch Kubernetes” and then I saw this OpenClaw + Argo CD setup

#kubernetes #devops #ai #gitops

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Jul 24

I really thought a home lab was the cheap cloud GPU for LLM answer until the VRAM math slapped me

#ai #llm #selfhosted #devops

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Jul 23

I stopped trusting AGENTS.md after my agent said “done” 3 times with zero proof

#ai #agents #llm #devops

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Jul 23

I thought desktop copilots would win, then I tried building agents on Android

#android #ai #automation #devops

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Jul 23

I watched a Google AI Pro login break for 3 months and it changed how I think about agent infra

#ai #devops #api #automation

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Jul 22

My agent wanted my Instagram password and that was the moment I knew the setup was wrong

#ai #automation #n8n #devops

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Jul 22

I read all 141 comments asking if OpenClaw is dead and the answer is messier than people think

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Jul 21

I read the 17-comment Reddit fight about trying Kimi K3 and the answer is way less exciting than people want

#ai #llm #openai #devops

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Jul 21

I learned the hard way that Slack is the worst place to find out your website agent skipped the important part

#ai #devops #automation #api

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Jul 20

I thought adding 3 more OpenClaw agents would help but the real problem was AI agent handoff state

#ai #agents #python #architecture

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Jul 20

I read the r/openclaw voice thread so you don’t have to — and yeah, the real problem is 10–20 second latency

#ai #openai #automation #webdev

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Jul 20

The first OpenClaw setup I’d recommend for a blind parent is not a chatbot

#ai #a11y #opensource #devops

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Jul 19

I thought a cheaper model would fix my agent bill, then I found the 34k-character system prompt

#ai #llm #agents #observability

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Jul 19

I thought Grok subscriptions were the cheap way to run agents until the limits got weird

#ai #llm #automation #devops

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Jul 18

I think Facebook Marketplace posting is the sleeper real estate AI automation project on OpenClaw (6-step workflow)

#ai #automation #openai #realestate

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Jul 18

I finally saw a legal agent setup that used OpenClaw for 6 months without pretending to be your lawyer

#ai #agents #automation #opensource

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Jul 18

I thought my agent needed a huge soul.md until a 52-word file worked better

#ai #agents #devops #productivity

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Jul 17

The first OpenClaw workflow I’d steal is a job agent that checks listings 2x a week and never auto-applies

#ai #agents #automation #openclaw

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Jul 17

I knew agents were getting real when someone kept an OpenClaw bird-card workflow running every hour for their kids

#ai #agents #automation #openclaw

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Jul 16

I thought fallback was a nice-to-have until OpenAI billing issues broke 3 agent runs in one week

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Jul 16

I went looking for OpenClaw ‘AI employees’ and found purchasing bots, ad ops loops, and 500-gateway fleets instead

#ai #automation #devops #openai

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Jul 15

Peter got 90 minutes and r/openclaw used them to ask if OpenClaw still has a future

#ai #agents #automation #openai

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Jul 15

I thought persistent AI agents needed more autonomy until Codex taught me the value of a hard stop

#ai #agents #openai #devops

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Jul 15

OpenClaw 2026.7.1 broke installs and the Reddit thread was way more useful than the release notes

#openclaw #devops #ai #automation

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Jul 14

I wasted a weekend on WSL2 browser automation so you don’t have to

#playwright #wsl2 #browserautomation #aiagents

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Jul 14

I thought the clever part was the AI, but the real win was putting the farmer controls in WhatsApp

#ai #automation #devops #openai

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Jul 14

I read the Claude Code vs OpenClaw thread so you don’t have to — and people are arguing about the wrong thing

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Jul 13

I priced out a Mac Studio and dual 5090s for cheap LLM models and the math got weird fast

#ai #llm #selfhosted #devops

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Jul 13

I thought OpenClaw would write my posts but its best trick is running content ops across 10 channels

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Jul 13

I keep seeing OpenClaw users build self hosted team chat instead of stuffing every agent into Slack

#ai #automation #devops #opensource

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Jul 12

I think the Mac mini agent business dream is backwards — 3 safer bets than chasing autonomous cyber agents

#ai #automation #agents #openai

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Jul 12

31 upvotes later, this r/openclaw thread exposed the real problem with agent tools

#ai #agents #devops #automation

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Jul 12

I finally found an always-on voice setup that my family wouldn’t abandon after 2 days

#ai #devops #automation #opensource

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Jul 11

I stopped asking OpenClaw what broke and started reading the trace

#ai #opentelemetry #observability #devops

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Jul 11

OpenClaw turned a 1-click view into 3 clicks and developers are right to be mad

#ai #devops #productivity #opensource

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Jul 11

I stopped believing autonomous coding demos after watching a repo kill the plan in 6 minutes

#ai #automation #devops #programming

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Jul 10

I saw someone give OpenClaw a 4-node Proxmox cluster and now I think most of us are doing agent security backwards

#ai #security #devops #automation

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Jun 28

I finally understand why OpenClaw keeps missing daily journals

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Jun 28

I watched someone burn 50 hours on OpenClaw and the fix was embarrassingly simple

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Jun 27

I stopped trusting app dashboards and used a browser automation AI agent to rebuild the numbers from scratch

#ai #automation #devops #productivity

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Jun 27

I kept seeing people buy a Mac mini for OpenClaw and almost none of them needed one

#ai #automation #openai #selfhosted

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Jun 27

I thought a 24/7 life-ops agent would be one genius bot but it’s actually 10 boring ones

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Jun 26

My bot kept double-posting and the real bug wasn’t GPT-5

#ai #devops #automation #webdev

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Jun 26

I thought I needed a better model for 10 agents, but I really needed a queue

#ai #agents #n8n #devops

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Jun 25

This OpenClaw 6.10 thread got 50 comments and the weird part is everyone is arguing about boring fixes

#openclaw #ai #automation #devops

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Jun 25

r/openclaw apologized for moderating too hard and honestly that tells you everything

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Jun 25

My n8n agent rewrote the same 7-task to-do list 4 times until I stopped asking for markdown

#ai #n8n #automation #openai

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Jun 24

I stopped trusting OpenClaw skills the day I realized some of them are basically npm packages with my credit card

#ai #security #automation #devops

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Jun 24

I thought I needed a better tool-calling model, but my agent just had too many tools

#ai #agents #openai #automation

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Jun 18

I finally figured out the 1 question that decides whether OpenClaw is still worth it or Codex already wins

#ai #agents #automation #devops

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Jun 14

I stopped letting my agent browse 50 sites and the monitoring got way more reliable

#ai #automation #webdev #devops

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Jun 12

I read the 21-comment OpenClaw UI thread and I think everyone is arguing about the wrong thing

#ai #devops #automation #openai

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Jun 12

I stopped trusting “same answers, fewer tokens” after watching an agent lose 1 field name and burn 3 hours

#ai #llm #agents #devops

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Jun 12

I read the r/openclaw thread on the best $20 plan and realized everyone is solving the wrong problem

#ai #openai #automation #devops

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Jun 11

I stopped trying to make my agent fully autonomous and made it ask my phone first

#ai #agents #n8n #python

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