OpenClaw AI Agent Explained: What 250,000 Developers Know That You Don’t
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The fastest-growing open-source project in history - and nobody’s giving you the honest take. Until now. 250,000 GitHub stars. Queues of retirees and students outside Tencent’s Shenzhen headquarters. Chinese engineers charging $72 just to install it on a laptop. Security researchers calling it “the potential biggest insider threat of 2026.” OpenClaw is not just another AI tool. It’s a cultural flashpoint - and the hype cycle is making it nearly impossible to figure out what’s actually going on.