I’ve been deep in the OpenClaw trenches. Here’s the reality of giving your computer “eyes and hands” without melting your hardware or your bank account. 1. Why are folks buying a Mac Mini for cloud APIs? On a a related note, how long can I keep a node process running on my MacBook before it melts 😆 2. My god, AI APIs are expensive. Proprietary vision APIs are a money pit. I’m waiting for the pivot to a competent open-source model like Qwen2.5-VL that I can run locally. 3. OpenClaw is a cool experiment until the free credits vanish. To make it a killer, we need an enterprise-grade security layer. Nobody is giving an agent “eyes and hands” access to payments except a reckless idiot 😅 The pipeline is the bottleneck. Vision, eyes, hands, and brains need to be faster. We don’t need “smarter” models; we need hyper-efficient models fine-tuned specifically for tool calling. Latency is the only thing killing the vibe.
