I Spent Weeks Reverse-Engineering OpenClaw. Here's What Nobody Tells You.

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Challenge. Everyone's talking about OpenClaw like it's witchcraft. You set it up, connect your Telegram, and suddenly it's scheduling standups, summarizing your RSS feeds, transcribing voice notes, and remembering a conversation you had three weeks ago. People in forums describe it with words like "it feels alive" or "I don't even know how it did that." I'm a CTO building AI-powered products. That kind of mystery bothers me. So I spent several weeks pulling OpenClaw apart. Tracing every request. Building a competing prototype.