The Creator of OpenClaw Just Apologized

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 How to Connect IG: / ericosiu X: / ericosiu 👉 Single Brain - Revenue agents to scale faster using our unified intelligence layer. https://www.singlebrain.com 👉 Single Grain - AI marketing firm https://www.singlegrain.com 👉 Get 25k Words of AI-Powered SEO Content: https://clickflow.com/ 👉 Growth Newsletter for top marketers: https://levelingup.beehiiv.com/subscribe