i burnt $127 in api credits before i fixed these openclaw mistakes

This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge everyone is saying openclaw would build my startup while i slept. instead, i spent two weeks watching it burn through my api credits while it asked the same question eight times in a row. it wasn't thinking hard. it was stuck in a loop, and i was the one paying $0.03 per token to watch it spin. if you're currently babysitting your agent, watching it loop on simple tasks, or wondering if you should just go back to coding manually — i was the