u/tskull

p.s. this is an actual friend, not a "my friend" kinda post 😂

We were debating whether these kind of tools are good, and would anyone want them.

You probably seen some form of this agentic system where you connect your startup/saas or whatever and it automatically writes seo content, generates and runs video ads, spams linkedin etc

Personally I was skeptical that anyone would want to use it. Everyone thinks they can make this themselves. But my experience is that a) the output is not that good without quite a bit of human in the loop and b) if it did work, then everyone would do it, then it wouldnt work again anyway bc it's basically just spam email at that point.

Would this be a slop cannon you would avoid?
Or would you try it and put your company marketing on autopilot?

p.s. this is an actual friend, not a "my friend" kinda post 😂

We were debating whether these kind of tools are good, and would anyone want them.

You probably seen some form of this agentic system where you connect your startup/saas or whatever and it automatically writes seo content, generates and runs video ads, spams linkedin etc

Personally I was skeptical that anyone would want to use it. Everyone thinks they can make this themselves. But my experience is that a) the output is not that good without quite a bit of human in the loop and b) if it did work, then everyone would do it, then it wouldnt work again anyway bc it's basically just spam email at that point.

Would this be a slop cannon you would avoid?
Or would you try it and put your company marketing on autopilot?

I use openclaw to do a bunch of stuff to run my company

My setup is that oc basically runs its own mac mini with no guard rails. It sort of manages itself and I just chat on telegram

The challenge im facing is that the processes its built for itself sometimes degrade

EG I have a script which detects where my car is parked via tesla api, and then it pays for parking if I am parked in a certain area close to my work.

This works fine for weeks, then randomly fails, the failure mode is not handled. It could be related to claude nerfing the model, some bot detection blocking the payment, oc updates which broke things, whatever

The challenge is when you have dozens of these sort of automations in place, you can end up spending meaningful amount of time just debugging the issues you thought you were solving 😭

Do other people find this a problem?
Any ideas on how to get around it?