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r/LocalLLaMA writes OpenClaw's obituary in 250 comments: the dashboards outlived the agent
A 282-upvote thread asking what happened to OpenClaw and its derivatives drew a near-unanimous verdict that the hype is over, with the top reply that OpenClaw users are still mainly making OpenClaw dashboards and another that it is too buggy for anything else. The consensus narrative is that OpenClaw started the agentic-harness wave, Hermes then took the users, and a commenter puts a named fork at 12,000 open issues and 25,000 open PRs and calls it a worse collapse than OpenClaw's. Practitioners describe Hermes as less proactive but less buggy, which is the tradeoff the community has apparently settled on.
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