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29 Mar 2026 Lenny's Podcast From skeptic to true believer: How OpenClaw changed my life | Claire Vo
“Will it not? And if it can't solve a problem, I think where I've come and I would advise people to do is just walk away from expecting it to solve that problem and give it another problem to solve.”
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- Claire Vo
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- 29 Mar 2026
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…And this is in Chrome. And this is in Chrome. And you can tell your OpenClaw to give itself a color. So when you see the browser open, like pink is for Poly and green is for Sage, and you can really identify, especially if you have multiple agents, which one's working on which window. And then I know where browser use works and where it doesn't. So first thing you should try to do if you're trying to do something is look for an API. So does this have an API key? Your life is a lot easier. If DoorDash had an API, maybe they will have one, your life is a lot easier because then you can bypass the web stuff entirely. Then the second thing is, okay, if it doesn't have an API key, can it browse the website? And some things, and you'd be surprised which ones work and which ones don't. And I'll give a very specific example. I had Howie, the How I AI podcast producer open up YouTube Studio and look for comments that I should personally reply to. And so it was literally going into the comments tab, scrolling through, finding ones. It liked ones for me that I said that I liked and helped me find comments that I should reply to. And I couldn't get it through API. I couldn't do any... So I just gave it the browser. It was very slow, but it worked. But then I tried to have it do the same thing where I wanted to queue up some shorts in Instagram through Buffer, which is a social media platform. And the Buffer page was much simpler and it just couldn't figure it out. And so a lot of this is just trial and error. Will it work? Will it not? And if it can't solve a problem, I think where I've come and I would advise people to do is just walk away from expecting it to solve that problem and give it another problem to solve. So if you're saying it can't order DoorDash for me, maybe that's just not a problem for you, but can it meal plan for you? Yeah. Or you could say every day at 11 o'clock, I'm tempted to order DoorDash because I don't want to make myself lunch. So at 10:30, remind me of a few lunches that I really like to eat at home so I don't order DoorDash. So again, find out what the problem behind the problem is and see if OpenClaw can help you solve that. I love that. That browser limitation might lead to me eating better and saving money.…
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