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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by giancarlostoro »

HorizonXP wrote: post #15
atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot is interesting but I finally feel like those people who look at people like me raving about Claude code when it barely works for them. I have no doubt clawdBot, when it works, must feel great. But I’ve had the tough time setting it up and found it to be very buggy. My first couple of conversations? It forgot the context literally seconds later when I responded. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s improving by the da…

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focus…

> too old to give up Vim.

Even for Neovim? ;)

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by atonse »

HorizonXP wrote: post #15
atonse wrote: post #4

Clawdbot is interesting but I finally feel like those people who look at people like me raving about Claude code when it barely works for them. I have no doubt clawdBot, when it works, must feel great. But I’ve had the tough time setting it up and found it to be very buggy. My first couple of conversations? It forgot the context literally seconds later when I responded. Nevertheless, I’m sure it’s improving by the da…

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focus…

Maybe this is the issue I’m facing. I’m already using Claude, Claude projects, Claude cowork, and Claude code a lot.

I used Claude projects for an entire proposal. That was one of the best proposals I think I’ve ever written.

I’ve been using cowork to help organize my downloads folder, which had 1500 files and I just didn’t have the patience to organize them.

So maybe the differences with Claude bought not as big because I’m able to vibe code my way into things like like integrations and other things that I’ve already been using?

For the app that I wrote to help manage my business, I exposed everything over MCP so I’m able to do things like timesheets and adding and removing people and purchase orders and all that stuff using MCP. So which is why I’m already kind of feeling the magic with my existing stuff maybe?

The one thing in ClawdBot’s favor is the scheduled stuff maybe?

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by gmerc »

bdangubic wrote: post #65
gmerc wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you figure out prompt injection. It's wild

why should one be more concerned about hypothetical prompt injection and that being the reason not to use clawdbot? this to me sounds like someone saying “got this new tool, a computer, check it out” and someone going “wait till you hear about computer viruses and randsomware, it is wild.”

Oh you’ll find out. It’s as hypothetical as the combustibility of hydrogen gas. FAFO

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by browningstreet »

thehamkercat wrote: post #53
maximilianroos wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

He explicitly disavowed any crypto / coin endorsement (I don't _love_ his vibes on Twitter, but he seems like a very reasonable guy generally, and the project seems awesome)

The project is okay but i don't understand the crazy hype

The crazy hype was launched by the “get a Mac Mini” viral MLM content pyramid.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by [deleted] »

hecanjog wrote: post #61

I tried it out. I have NO idea why I thought it would be fine to try it out. Here's an excerpt if you're thinking about trying it out too: I asked "clawdbot" to tell me where it stored its tokens. It said: --- Your config is: ``` ~/.clawdbot/clawdbot.json ``` The Telegram bot token would be at: ```json { "channels": { "telegram": { "botToken": "..." } } } ``` Want me to check if Telegram is configured there? I'll onl…

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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by scottyeager »

sejje wrote: post #47
HorizonXP wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim. Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to. However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focus…

What's up with aider? Did it get abandoned? What models do you have driving now? I've stepped away for a while and I haven't tried claude code yet

Aider isn't abandoned, but it feels like it's basically in maintenance mode at this point. Updates over the last year were limited to small improvements and fixes. There are some forks aimed at making it more "agentic" (more like Claude Code, etc). I haven't tried them personally.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by jason_tko »

I've seen many people say "I don't get the hype", so here's my attempt to explain it. I've been working in technology and software companies my entire life, but not as a developer.

Two days ago, I submitted and had my first pull request merged to an open source project (Clawdbot) thanks to my AI assistant rei.

A short story: rei suddenly stopped responding in some Slack channels. So I asked it to help me troubleshoot.

We traced the issue: adding custom instructions in one Slack channel incorrectly stopped it from replying in all the others.

I considered reporting the issue in GitHub, but then I thought, "Well... what if we just try to fix it ourselves, and submit a PR?"

So we did. We cloned the codebase, found the issue, wrote the fix, added tests. I asked it to code review its own fix. The AI debugged itself, then reviewed its own work, and then helped me submit the PR.

Hard to accurately describe the unlock this has enabled for me.

Technically, it's just an LLM call, and technically, I could have done this before.

However there is something different about this new model of "co-working with AI that has context on you and what you're doing" that just clicks.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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Post by DANmode »

ks2048 wrote: post #78

I guess I'm in the wrong generation... but what on earth is that first image supposed to tell us?? ... "I'm in Marrakech", "nice!" ....

I think it might be showing off the Telegram integration,

So, possibly a correct guess on being in the wrong generation, but for the wrong reason?

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