Why do you expect a potential userbase to care to read something you didn't even care to write?
Seems a bit disrespectful to me.
The question is: "Should I spend my time engaging with this project?"
The AI-forward presentation says: "Absolutely not."
2. There's a difference between technical documentation, which AI can be quite decent at, and product marketing. A README is usually about 20/80, maybe 50/50 for large FOSS projects. You can have the AI write the sections on how to install the thing for all I care, but as soon as AI is telling me why I should use it, you've lost me. Signals a complete lack of interest in your own product.
But I can imagine that medium-sized companies will want to use AI as a backend in the future, without wanting to be dependent on Antropic.
After all, there are already quite a few companies using OpenClaw.
A self-hosted OpenClaw instance (or other solutions in the future) with Relay would be a good alternative to Claude Cowork.
Blood, sweat, and tears went into Relay. I'm SICK AND TIRED of you downplaying the intensity of human labor that went into producing this software suite.
> Local file access >> Relay: Truly local >> Cowork: Sandboxed VM on Anthropic's servers
> The bottom line: Claude Cowork is excellent for personal productivity on Anthropic's cloud. Relay is for teams and companies that need data sovereignty, compliance-ready audit trails, and model freedom — all on their own infrastructure.
I'm not entirely sure what Cowork means by “sandboxed VM” right now. Relay simply has access to the folder you've defined for the project.
_pdp_•1h ago
Considering that Open Claw requires 2GB of RAM and Claude Code is by no means a "lightweight" CLI either, I would argue that the compounding overhead here is hard to justify when you could just hit the API directly.
Each layer adds its own memory footprint, failure modes, and debugging surface area and at some point, the convenience of abstraction is outweighed by the cost of running what is essentially a Matryoshka doll of Node processes just to send a prompt and get a completion back.
Just a thought.