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From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo

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With Open Claw. You started off as one of the leading skeptics. My first install, I truly spent eight hours getting Open Claw up and running. In return for those eight hours, I got my personal family calendar deleted. Now you're a true believer. I am a breathless Open Claw, bro. It has changed my life. It just hit me with enough joy and a enough utility when it wasn't deleting my calendar that I knew something was there. I'm now running like eight different agents. On Open Claw, you really have to pull the thread on these tools and you have to spend enough time with them to see not where they are today, but where they are in a week and where they are in a month. It feels like a big unlock for you with Open Claw was realizing you shouldn't just have one. Where people stumble with Open Claw is they think they can throw any task. at a single agent and get great results. And then they get really frustrated. I won't sugarcoat it. It's a pain to set up. It is not hands off, but the value is so high. I am willing To go through the pain. Give people examples of what this actually does for you in your life. Boy, did I start creating agents. So now we have Polly, Finn, Max, Howie, Kelly, Holly. Sam is my salesperson. What Sam does has real economic value. Last year, before the beginning of the year, I was paying.

somebody 10 hours a week to do this. Today my guest is Claire Vaux, the incredible host of our sister podcast, How I AI. She's also a long time engineer, a three time chief product officer and founder of her own AI startup. This is our first ever crossover episode. We may do more. I asked Claire to come on the podcast.

Because she has become an absolute power user of Open Claw. Which is especially surprising because she was one of the biggest skeptics when it first came out. I don't want to give too much away, but she has got nine open claws running across three computers. And maybe most importantly, unlike a lot of people online talking about OpenClaw, It is really

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