OpenClaw finished the work, the next model stopped

What was done

On 18 April 2026 he writes in r/openclaw that several OpenClaw agents each had a Google Workspace email, a Git account and an EC2 instance. They could assume roles in the development account on AWS. They talked through Redis pub/sub that they set up themselves. They worked in Terraform repos, coded, reviewed and merged, and set up continuous delivery and GitOps. He gave large tasks in Telegram while he was out. The next morning he found projects finished and running. Then the Max plan became too expensive for OpenClaw, as he writes it. He switched the model to gpt-5.4. Now the work does not get finished. Often they say they are working, but do nothing, or they stop without saying so. He has tried changing the prompts. They worked that way when they ran on Opus.

How it went

The work he describes as finished is from the time on Opus. After gpt-5.4 he writes that the tasks do not get finished. He has not written that he switched back.

Worth knowing

No repo is named. A count of projects is not given. The account is the development account, not something he calls production. The price of Max is not given. That they do nothing is his observation, with no log in the post.

How to do it

1. Give one task, with the repo and what must not be touched.
2. Read the diff the next time you look. Do not assume a message about work means a change.
3. Do not merge, do not deploy and do not change roles in AWS before you have said yes.