Online, there are two camps about openclaw. One camp ays it's the best thing since sliced bread, the other says it's a crazy insecure fad. I think it's both.
If you are not a software developer, you have always been at the mercy of a computer. Either it can do things, or it can't. As a result, when openclaw came out, suddently you could make the computer do new things just by talking to it. Want an incoming email to ping via SMS? It can do that. Want to make an app for your phone? You can speak with your openclaw in plain English, and it will make your app for you and guide you through installing it. Its a one stop shop that changes how you interact with your computer. It gives you control and lets you do things you never could before.
I have a friend: technical but not a software dev. He installed openclaw, and the next day had used it to build an app that used his phones compass/accelerometer/GPS to help him line up a solar panel for optimal energy generation. This is the power of openclaw.
But to us software developers it's a bit ho hum. Cool, I always could automate things. Particularly now with coding agents. There's no real innovation here, right? The smart bit is the coding agent, and they've been around for a year or so already. I mean, it's cool that I can control my coding agent from my phone I guess.
But then, also as a software developer: you mean I can have an autonomous tool that just does things. Cool! Now I can get something to work on my hobby projects while I sleep! Epic!