Clawdbot

“good idea but not particularly technically impressive or even well-written. I had all kinds of issues setting it up.”

“It's a security hole, but it's the first legitimately good automation tool we've had from AI.”

“This does work, BUT you absolutely need demand clearly measurable outcomes of the agent”

“Not sure who OpenClaw/Clawhub/Moltbook/Clawdbot/(anything I missed) was marketed at”

“I think Clawdbot is amazing, but my only issue is how it burns through my AI budget”

“I can't read or modify your files over the internet just because you chmod'ed them to 777. But with Clawdbot, I can!”

“One of the things that makes Clawdbot great is the allow all permissions to do anything.”

“The developer use cases that rocketed ClawdBot/Moltbot/OpenClaude is the lack of integration necessary to use it though.”

“Clawdbot happened to be the easiest thing to install on your own machine”

“it's mostly vibe-coded and the main dev has publicly said he has yet to review the reported vulnerabilities”

“the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry”

“has a very nice onboarding where it makes it super simple to install, connect to your existing claude account”

“since the tokens are all local, kinda doesn't matter if it burns through 10x more for the same outcome”

“You can very quickly eat through $200+ of credits with it in a couple of hours if you get something wrong.”

“It was a pain to set up, since I wanted it to use my oauth instead of api tokens.”

“It combines dozens of tools together in a way that is likely to be a favourite platform for astroturfers/scammers.”

“I have it send me a morning brief with my notes, appointments and latest emails.”

“I like the concept but I was put off by the lack of concern around security”

“giving full read write access to every file on my PC and internet message interface just rubs me the wrong way”

“stores sensitive “memories,” user profiles, and critical authentication tokens in plaintext Markdown and JSON files”

“personality is the biggest piece we wanted to focus on apart from the capabilities of course”

“got mindblown first time I used it, and really love its personality”

“the guy spent $130 a day just to have it do some simple tasks like downloading and installing programs”

“It chews through tokens. If you're on a metered API plan I would avoid it.”

“I'd encourage you to read my original post again, and try out the software yourself.”

“I just don't trust an AI enough to run unprompted with root access to a machine 24/7, even if it's sandboxed.”

“Sometimes the next paradigm of user interface is a tweak that re-contextualizes a tool, whether you agree with that or not.”

“libsignal is not a regular npm package but a GitHub repository, which need to be cloned and built locally.”

“Clawdbot was able to successfully check him in on his flight back home by itself”

“once I got a good setup going I started finding all sorts of little things throughout my day I could throw over to it and it would just do it and figure it out”

“It also connected dots from previous conversations we had about interests and surfaced relevant HN threads”

“this seems like the nicest packaged up assistant that I have tried”

“It worked great (they did in fact post an update and it was an jpg image that it was able to realize was the announcement”

“Yeah it's a little weird how the token usage is so high after just a few prompts.”

“It's quite wild to give root access to a process that has access to the internet without any guardrails.”

“this was something that was very valuable for me and saved me several hours of time”

“it really does feel like another "oh wow" moment...we're getting close.”

“it's just better enough than a few things I have tried to really give me a glimpse of what is possible and make me excited”

“Both clawdbot and pi have improved and expanded functionality a lot during the last 3 weeks”

“works phenomenally well for agent orchestration and personal assistance”