Here’s the real state of OpenClaw right now.

OpenClaw became a critical part of how our team operates, but over the last couple months the reliability has noticeably dropped. Messages fail, automations break, gateways hang, and teams start losing trust in the system when it stops responding consistently.

In this video I walk through Peter Steinberger’s public apology, the exact issues we’re seeing inside Slack and Telegram, why reliability matters more than features, and how we’re thinking about Hermes vs OpenClaw moving forward.

I also break down the “brain vs execution” model, why competition between the two is actually healthy, and why I still believe autonomous agents are the future despite the current issues.

Chapters

(00:00) Is it over for OpenClaw?

(00:46) The reliability problems we’re seeing

(02:08) Peter Steinberger’s apology

(04:20) Why SSR matters (secure, stable, reliable)

(05:05) The single brain + agent fleet setup

(06:34) Real Slack failures inside our team

(08:05) Telegram failures and broken responses

(09:09) Hermes as the alternative

(10:41) Brain vs execution model

(12:03) Why OpenClaw still matters

(13:34) Website deployed using OpenClaw

(14:52) Final thoughts on the future of agents