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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#91

This is all starting to feel like the productivity theater rabbit hole people (myself included) went down with apps like Notion/Obsidian. It is clearly capable of doing a lot of stuff, but where is the real impact? Like it’s cool that your downloads folder, digital notes and emails are all properly organized and tags. But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value f…

> But they reason they were in that state to begin with is because you don’t inherently derive value from their organization.

You don’t derive more value from their organization than the cost of manually organizing them.

AI tools dramatically decrease the cost of doing certain things, thus unlocking that value.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#92

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…

This is a thing you can enable on GitHub for any project. You just described a GitHub feature

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#93

I found this HN post because I have a Clawdbot task that scans HN periodically for data gathering purposes and it saw a post about itself and it got excited and decided to WhatsApp me about it. So that’s where I’m at with Clawdbot.

> and it got excited and decided to WhatsApp me about it.

I find the anthropomorphism here kind of odious.

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#95
Wild. There are 300 open Github issues. One of them is this (also AI generated) security report: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/issues/1796 claiming findings of hundreds of high-risk issues, including examples of hard coded, unencrypted OAuth credentials.

I am...disinclined to install this software.

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#96
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What are some examples of malicious prompt injection you’ve seen in the wild so far?

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#97

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…

> too old to give up Vim. Even for Neovim? ;)

Even for Neovim!

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#98

I found this HN post because I have a Clawdbot task that scans HN periodically for data gathering purposes and it saw a post about itself and it got excited and decided to WhatsApp me about it. So that’s where I’m at with Clawdbot.

Do you tell it what you find interesting so it only responds with those posts? i.e AI/tech news/updates, gaming etc..

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#99
post #73

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

What are some examples of malicious prompt injection you’ve seen in the wild so far?

“oh you’ll find out” :)

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#100
post #95

Wild. There are 300 open Github issues. One of them is this (also AI generated) security report: https://github.com/clawdbot/clawdbot/issues/1796 claiming findings of hundreds of high-risk issues, including examples of hard coded, unencrypted OAuth credentials. I am...disinclined to install this software.

If you read the PR, the bad issues are in a few extensions, not the bot itself. The unencrypted oAuth token isn't really a big deal. It should be fixed but its a "if this box is compromised" type thing. Given the nature of clawdbot, you are probably throwing it on a random computer/vps you don't really care about (I hope) without access to anything critical.
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