Building a Self-Hosted AI Developer Assistant with OpenClaw
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Building a Self-Hosted AI Developer Assistant with OpenClaw I wanted an assistant that could do real engineering work, not just answer prompts. So I turned a VPS into a self-hosted AI operator that can open GitHub issues, implement fixes, push branches, open PRs, write docs, and even generate blog drafts like this one. This post walks through how I set up OpenClaw, why I routed coding work through Edith, and what actually worked (and what broke) once the system started doing real tasks. What OpenClaw actually is OpenClaw is a hostable agent runtime.