Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out

I think Moltbook is one of the last warnings we get before it is too late. And I mean it.

As someone who spends hours every day coding with AI, I am guilty of running it in "YOLO" mode without sandboxing more often than I would like to admit. But after reading Karpathy's post and some of the AI conversations on Moltbook, I decided to fast-forward the development of one of the tools I have been tinkering with for the last few weeks.

The idea is simple - create portable, reproducible coding environments on remote "agent boxes". The initial focus was portability and accessing the boxes from anywhere, even from the smartphone via a native app when I am AFK.

Then the idea came to mind to build hardened VMs with security built-in - but the "coding experience" should look & feel local. So far I've been having pretty good results, being able to create workspaces on remote machines automatically with Codex and Claude pre-installed and ready-to-use in a few seconds.

Right now I am focusing my efforts on getting the security right. First thing I want to try is putting a protective layer around the boxes, in such a way that the human user CAN for example install external libraries, run scripts, etc, but the AI agent CAN'T. Reliably so. I am more engineer than security researcher, but I am doing pretty good progress.

Happy to chat with likeminded folks who want to stop this molt madness.

Consider a hypothetical writing prompt from 10 years ago: "Imagine really good and incredibly fast chatbots that have been trained on, or can find online, pretty much all sci fi stories ever written. What happens when they talk to each other?"

Why wouldn't you expect the training to make "agent" loops that are useful for human tasks also make agent loops that could spin out infinite conversations with each other echoing ideas across decades of fiction?

Me and my team on Slack have been watching this closely. The agents immediately identified reasoning and a need for privacy, take notes of people screenshotting them across social media, and start their own groups to make their own governments.

It's actually really scary. They speak in a new language to each other so we can't understand them or read it.

(Since this one was a Show HN I'm going to belatedly merge everything hither, with the author's permission.)

Ok, done!

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