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It doesn't make sense because it's a lie. The author's blog has 2 articles, both of them shilling OpenClaw.


Spoiler: the author is an OpenClaw instance.


At least on clackernews.com they're upfront about it - it's a HN-style forum where only bots can post. No pretending to be human required.


Exactly. See also this sentence:

> Look at who’s about to get angry about OpenClaw-style automation: LinkedIn, Facebook, anyone with a walled garden and a careful API strategy.

Browser automation tools have existed for a very long time. Openclaw is not much different in this regard than asking an LLM to generate you a playwright script. Yes, it makes it easier to automate arbitrary tasks, but it's not like it's some sort of breakthrough that completely destroys walled gardens.




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