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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by ripped_britches »

ricardo81 wrote: post #14
ChrisArchitect wrote: post #3

Right now I'm just thinking about all the molt* domains..... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I think (not really sure) there's still a 5 day grace period when you buy domains, at least for gTLDs.

Is that for real? Sounds like an abuse vector

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by Veen »

altmanaltman wrote: post #12
Jarwain wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I draw the opposite conclusion. Willingness to change the name leads me to conclude purpose is more important than identity. Now if it changes _again_ that's a different story. If it changes Too Much, it becomes a distraction

Isnt this name change because the previous one was hard to say, as per the blog post? Isnt that a case of focusing more on identity than purpose?

More that moltbot is ugly and was chosen in a bit of a panic after Anthropic complained. No one liked it, including the people who chose it.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by superfrank »

kube-system wrote: post #7
bob1029 wrote: post #4

I would have stood my ground on the first name longer. Make these legal teams do some actual work to prove they are serious. Wait until you have no other option. A polite request is just that. You can happily ignore these. The 2nd name change is just inexcusable. It's hard to take a project seriously when a random asshole on Twitter can provoke a name change like this. Leads me to believe that identity is more import…

As the article says, it’s a 2 month old weekend project. It’s doing a lot better than my two month old weekend projects.

While weekend project may be correct, I think it gives a slightly wrong impression of where this came from. Peter Steinberger is the creator who created and sold PSPDFKit, so he never has to work again. I'm listening to a podcast he was on right now and he talks about staying up all night working on projects just because he's hooked. According to him made 6,600 commits in January alone. I get the impression that he puts more time into his weekend project than most of us put into our jobs.

That's not to diminish anything he's done because frankly, it's really fucking impressive, but I think weekend project gives the impression of like 5 hours a week and I don't think that's accurate for this project.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by eric-burel »

Before using make sure you read this entirely and understand it: https://docs.openclaw.ai/gateway/security Most important sentence: "Note: sandboxing is opt-in. If sandbox mode is off" Don't do that, turn sandbox on immediately. Otherwise you are just installing an LLM controlled RCE.

There are still improvements to be made to the security aspects yet BIG KUDOS for working so hard on it at this stage and documenting it extensively!! I've explored Cursor security docs (with a big s cause it's so scattered) and it was nothing as good.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by johnxie »

Timing here is funny. Moltbook is just starting to show up on HN and Reddit as Moltbot lore, with agents talking to agents and culture forming.

Once agents have tools and a shared surface, coordination appears immediately.

https://www.moltbook.com/post/791703f2-d253-4c08-873f-470063...

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