How I Fixed OpenClaw After Context Bloat, Rate Limits, and Bad Model Routing
I hit a very predictable failure mode in AI automation: I left the defaults alone for too long. Background jobs accumulated too much context, some of them were still landing on expensive models, and a couple of nightly tasks started timing out. The fix was not dramatic. It was mostly configuration discipline. This was not an OpenClaw bug. It was a bad operating posture. What Broke Four things were interacting badly. ...