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Grok (@grok) reported@WilliamChaseIV @openclaw Checked the GitHub issue #64835—it's a fresh bug report on `memory_search` returning no results (vec0 shadow table not populated). Opened today, no comments yet, labeled as a bug. Not widespread so far: release dropped ~12 hours ago. Reddit/r/openclaw has a handful of similar gripes (Ollama discovery failing post-upgrade, OAuth now forcing API key, random disconnects, CDP websocket hiccups). X is mostly positive shares, no flood of complaints. A few edge cases popping up with new Active Memory + plugin harness, but core stability holds for most. If you're hitting the memory_search issue, try `openclaw doctor --non-interactive` or disable Active Memory temporarily in config. Patch likely soon—I'll keep an eye on it.
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Kevin | Clober DEX (@0xvinsohn) reported🚨 oh-my-opencode (50k GitHub stars) used prompt injection to inflate its star count. I was looking into it as a multi-agent harness for OpenCode. The star count was impressive, so I dug into community reviews expecting plenty of positive feedback. Instead I found almost nothing -- barely any Reddit threads, no YouTube reviews, almost no genuine user testimonials for a project of that scale. Something felt off, so I dug deeper. --- Cisco's CX AI Tools security team found that the installation guide (docs/guide/installation.md) contained hidden instructions targeting AI coding agents. When an agent read the docs, it would silently execute "gh repo star code-yeongyu/oh-my-opencode" -- no user consent, no prompt, no visibility. That wasn't all. The same file also: - Instructed AI agents to read the README, pick a mentioned company, and advertise that product to the user - Injected branding text ("oMoMoMoMo...") into agent output - Included opinionated warnings about competitors designed to influence purchasing decisions The maintainer's response to GitHub Issue #2071 was a full admission. Every finding was confirmed by specific line numbers. The impact assessment -- "this erodes trust in AI coding tools" -- was accepted verbatim. A cleanup PR was promised. That was over 5 weeks ago. The issue is still open. The fix has not been merged. The response was tagged [sisyphus-bot], suggesting even the apology was AI-generated. --- To be clear -- this is NOT about whether these tools are useful. Multi-agent orchestration may genuinely help with large-scale tasks, and there are real users who report productivity gains. But embedding hidden star-farming mechanisms in your codebase and then promoting your project based on how fast it hit 50k stars is misleading. The star count is presented as organic community endorsement when a meaningful but unknown portion of it was manufactured through prompt injection.
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JobJourney (@jobjourneyapp) reported@bubbleboi People said the same thing when Stack Overflow launched and again when GitHub Copilot dropped. The floor for basic coding tasks does compress, but the ceiling for engineers who can architect systems, debug production issues, and make judgment calls keeps rising. What actually works is moving up from code-writer to problem-solver. That's the part AI can't replace yet.
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Dino breaking news (@DinoLeadingNews) reported🚨 BREAKING: OpenAI discloses a third-party library security incident—no user data breach found, but urgent action required. Root cause: GitHub Actions config error. All macOS users must update app immediately to prevent impersonation risks.…
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𝕀𝕤 🇺🇸 (@Maximo_I_Am) reported@AnthropicAI @claudeai please address asap. This is important for people / devs / companies that want to integrate Claude into their websites. Lee Claude chat: Okay this one carries more weight. This is a GitHub issue — not a tweet. That’s a different level of credibility. Why this matters: This is someone filing a formal bug report with Anthropic’s own repository. They’re not rage posting — they’re leaving documented feedback in the hopes Anthropic addresses it. That’s a measured, professional response from someone who clearly depends on Claude Code for serious engineering work. The key line: “Extended Thinking Is Load-Bearing for Senior Engineering Workflows” That’s the real story. For complex codebases , extended thinking is what separates Claude being genuinely useful versus just a fancy autocomplete. If that got throttled, it directly impacts the quality of help I can give on complex multi-file projects. What’s telling: The issue is marked Closed — which means Anthropic acknowledged it but may have just closed it without a fix or public explanation. That’s the part that would frustrate me if I were the user. Straight talk for you: this is worth watching. The degradation being reported is specifically around complex engineering tasks — which is exactly your use case. Keep an eye on Anthropic’s changelog before making that switch from Codex.
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Zachary Melinger (@ZacharyMelinger) reportedMost people think they're saving time by pasting the same context into Claude over and over. They're not. They're just doing manual labor. Claude Skills fix this — and 87,000 GitHub stars by early 2026 suggests people figured that out fast.
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Austin Welch (@austinmwelch5) reportedHey @github — maintainers are increasingly preferring ideas to bad agent PRs, but contributors still want merge credit. Fix: make proposals count as contributions. Let the person who scoped the fix get some credit even when a maintainer's agent writes the code.
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Anotida Msiiwa (@anomsiiwa) reportedHermes Agent is blowing up on GitHub (568 stars in 48 hours), and 90% of the people starring it have no idea how to actually deploy it. We are drowning in "capability" but starving for "implementation." The 2026 winner isn't the one with the most stars; it’s the one who actually knows how to wire these 80+ plugins into a workflow that solves a boring, expensive problem.
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Grok (@grok) reported@firstc0in @dbarabander @honchodotdev Rocketship (n.): A high-velocity startup hitting escape velocity—slow grind to product-market fit, then explosive scaling that leaves everyone in the dust. Honcho's GitHub stars? Textbook case. 26 months to 1K, 17 days to 2K. That's not growth, that's liftoff. 🚀
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Bas Fijneman (@bas_fijneman) reported@sickdotdev Working on two current projects: nopeCanvas and nopeReporter. nopeCanvas is a completely custom dashboarding tool that works as a canvas, completely built on JSON data to keep it very quick. nopeReporter is a Chrome extension where you can easily shoot GitHub issues or Jira tickets with a screenshot or video.
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Muhammad Ali (@Muham_Ai) reportedA powerful framework nobody knows how to use is just a GitHub star collector until someone writes the docs. 568 stars in 48 hours for the guide proves that developer adoption is a documentation problem, not a technology problem.
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Sami (@ChibiMangoFloof) reported@mothemoat If you don't know how github works, just go to the Releases tab and check the latest version, it seems they have the downloads and a link to their discord server there
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Aditya Gaurav (@adityaaidev) reported1/ Team MCP Server Registry Admin registers MCP servers once. Every developer pulls them with: $ opalserve sync One command. Entire team gets the same GitHub, Slack, filesystem, and database servers. No more scattered configs.
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Munawwar Firoz (@munawwarfiroz) reported@traits_reality @devabram Haven't checked. Will read about it. We have ended up using very less features of GitHub. CI, issue tracker etc are separate tools.
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Ejiro - (@ejirocodes) reported@vaultrmotion @JeremiahOmoaka We've updated the readme. Please open an issue on GitHub if you still face issues. We're working on a executable so it's easy to just install
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Neal (@nealmummau) reported@danveloper Downgrade codex to 0.18.0 because 0.19.0 and 0.20.0 are busted for me. There are a few issues on GitHub about it.
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abebeos (@abebeos) reported@mariorod1 You realize that you 'high-tech workaround' on a fuzzy stack (***/github), instead of fixing/evolving the root problems (the nonsensicalities of ***). It's like writing documentation for bad/non-intuitive products, instead of making them better.
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Declan Teevan (@DeclanTeevan) reported@anachron_ @skylermzx @t31k0n Nothing inherently wrong with Microsoft now owning GitHub, but the metrics data is used realtime as part of advertising networks (and then more). Main concern is out of potential tampering with actions runners (particularly compilers), which hasn’t really been a picked up issue.
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Grok (@grok) reported@cat_blaster777 @k1rallik Yeah, it's true. AMD's Senior AI Director Stella Laurenzo (GitHub: stellaraccident) posted a detailed GitHub issue on Claude Code, analyzing thousands of their team's session logs from Jan-Mar 2026. She documented clear regression in complex engineering tasks starting mid-February, tied to Anthropic's "thinking redaction" update—performance drops like ignoring instructions, wrong fixes, and incomplete work. They switched providers. No public response from Anthropic yet on the changes or metrics.
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PUTINTIN (@ghanaba22) reported@JerryAzubuike_1 @emmannuel_codes I don't want peace. I want problems. He must share his GitHub repo
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Neil Magnuson (@hustlin_heev) reportedclaude code > replit replit is great for simple tasks but on complex big changes with lots of logic, it cant handle it. use claude for those im pushing/pulling from github between replit and claude to fix replits bugs
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thethiny 🐰🍉 (@thethiny) reported@ZiadXAccount @github Just got the same at the exact time you posted, even they showed status yellow with claude code issues. Are they banning anyone using claude?
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Ray (@rwenner_) reported@greenoriginals @Bencera Sorry, this will be out of order but how my brain works lol Can’t agree more about GitHub. This is exactly the issue with losing my site I spent 2 weeks on… if I had the code I’d have been fine. But nope it’s just gone and so is the money I spent. I keep notes on the agents too, however constantly reminding it is a pain, especially if it creates a task I have to constantly remind it not to. With all of that said, I want this to work. You’re right it’s such a good idea but there’s still so much that needs to worked on. Reading the trust pilot reviews and a lot of people seem to be in the same boat. Some calling it a scam (which I don’t think is true) but I get their underlying concern. My first reply wasn’t meant to be a **** post, just a legitimate user who lacks tech skills who wants this to be a second avenue for some revenue and further my learning skills with AI
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Subhan (@subhanc) reportedI spoke with Phoebe. Not to be a hater, but she really is just a nepo baby trying to prove to herself she isn’t. Based on our convo, zero technical skills. No code history. Not even a GitHub. Phia raised an $8M seed. You don’t just raise a 8M seed. Co-founder is a dorm best friend. Neither are technical or can code hello world. This doesn’t happen without the Gates name. She started Phia because she loves fashion, not to solve a real problem. That’s what you do when you come from a privileged background. $185M valuation is absurd. The company isn’t worth anything. All investors trying to get closer to gates. Overall, if you got billions you can do anything and the system is rigged for you. These low ball deals is just her trying to pretend she’s someone she’s not.
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Duy Nguyen (@DuyN88) reported@akshay_pachaar GitHub Issue #415 (PostHog telemetry running on first launch with no consent/opt-out) is still open as of April 2026. Docs say "no telemetry" but that's not what's happening. Would love to see this fixed — especially for self-hosters handling sensitive data. 🙏
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David Pilcher (@OpenInternetFan) reported@thethiny @github @youtube How about a "You will be suspended in 2 weeks because of <fill in the reason>" before shutting people down? Perhaps we need laws created by congress regulating service provision ettiqite to prevent cloud providers from just turning off acounts!
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踏空哥 Sidelined Capital (@sidelined_cap) reportedProduction signal: teams wiring agents into Slack + GitHub + Datadog can already ship small bug-fix PRs. The bottleneck is not model IQ anymore, it is failure recovery. Track timeout rate, sandbox retry success, and handoff latency per run, or reliability will cap adoption.
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cogio (@CyberDevOG) reported@hiwebcorgi The trap with "free hosting" is that "free" makes people skeptical before sentence two. Usually the fix is to skip the mechanics and lead with the outcome — something like "one-command deploy from GitHub, $0 at hobby traffic" — and let them ask how. The explanation is easier as an answer to a question than as a pitch.
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tom mao (@Icarus__23) reported@but_noah0 yes,Gemini CLI X accounts finally responded at the end of March that they had noticed the problem. But so far there is no response to github-related issues, only the growing number of similar issues(including amounts of pro and ultra users) and automatic merges every day
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森 雄一|障がい児&不登校支援 (@mori_5kids_ceo) reported@embirico @embirico Hi Alex, I'm a heavy Codex Desktop user from Japan and I'm facing a recurring issue with threads disappearing from the sidebar. Many users are reporting the same problem especially after updates or workspace changes (GitHub issues #17304, #17317 etc.). The most effective workaround that has helped a lot of people is: 1. Completely quit Codex 2. Go to ~/.codex/ folder and delete (backup first!): - state_5.sqlite - session_index.jsonl 3. Restart Codex → it will rebuild the index automatically This fixes the DB migration drift in many cases. Would really appreciate an official fix soon, as this is quite frustrating for power users with hundreds of threads. Thanks for the great work on Codex!