I Spent $47 testing OpenClaw for a week

I Spent $47 testing OpenClaw for a week: Here's What's Actually Happening Three weeks ago, I'd never heard of OpenClaw. Last week, my feed was full of it. people calling it the future of work, others warning it's a security nightmare. The discourse was so polarized that I did what any developer would do: I set up a test environment and tried it myself. I spun up an old laptop, isolated it from my main network, and spent a week actually using OpenClaw for daily tasks. I also dove into the security reports, GitHub issues, and talked to people running it in production. What I found surprised me, not because it's revolutionary or terrible, but because it's both, depending on who's sitting at the keyboard. This isn't a hit piece. It's also not a love letter. It's what I learned after actually installing and testing this thing everyone's talking about.