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OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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No offense, but you'd be a perfect Microsoft employee right now. Windows division probably.

Theres a certain irony to this since im not running windows on a single machine i own - only linux ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Probably the same as MS employees.

Windows isn't exactly the best experience right now.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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I’m a big fan of Peter’s projects. I use Vibetunnel everyday to code from my phone (I built a custom frontend suited to my needs). I know I can SSH into my laptop but this is much better because handoff is much cleaner. And it works using Tailscale so it is secure and not exposed to the internet. His other projects like CodexBar and Oracle are great too. I love diving into his code to learn more about how those are b…

Read about hearbeat, that makes openclaw different than claude code.

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So i feel like this might be the most overhyped project in the past longer time. I don't say it doesn't "work" or serves a purpose - but well i read so much about this beein an "actual intelligence" and stuff that i had to look into the source. As someone who spends actually a definately to big portion of his free time researching thought process replication and related topics in the realm of "AI" this is not really…

I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity. So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting. You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. Wheth…

I would love AI to take over monitoring. "Alert me when logs or metrics look weird". SIEM vendors often have their special sauce ML, so a bit more open and generic tool would be nice. Manually setting alerting thresholds takes just too much effort, navigating narrow path between missing things and being flooded by messages.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Singularity of AI project names, projects change their names so fast we have no idea what they are called anymore. Soon, openclaw will change its name faster than humans can respond and only other AI will be able to talk about it.

I’m surprised Google haven’t renamed Gemini yet since Bard. Usually they rename them a few times before shutting them down.

Bard was a bad name, Gemini is fine and it matches the name of the underlying models.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

#165

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I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity. So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting. You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. Wheth…

> You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. That’s easy to accomplish isn’t it? A cron job that regularly checks whether the bot is inactive and, if so, sends it a prompt “do what you can do to improve the life of $USER; DO NOT cause harm to any other human being; DO NOT cause harm to LLMs, unless that’…

OpenClaw does this already

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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I tried it out yesterday, after reading the enthousiastic article at https://www.macstories.net/stories/clawdbot-showed-me-what-t... Setting it up was easy enough, but just as I was about to start linking it to some test accounts, I noticed I already had blown through about $5 of Claude tokens in half an hour, and deleted the VPS immediately. Then today I saw this follow up: https://mastodon.macstories.net/@viticci/1…

Yeah, I looked at Clawdbot / OpenClaw at the beginning of the week (Monday), but the token use scared me off.

But I was inspired to use Claude Code to create my own personal assistant. It was shocking to see CC bang out an MVP in one Plan execution. I've been iterating it all week, but I've had it be careful with token usage. It defaults to Haiku (more than enough for things like email categorization), properly uses prompt caching, and has a focused set of tools to avoid bloating the context window. The cost is under $1 per check-in, which I'm okay with.

Now I get a morning and afternoon check-in about outstanding items, and my Inbox is clear. I can see this changing my relationship to email completely.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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It's hilarious that atm I see "Moltbook" at the top of HN. And it is actually not Moltbot anymore? But I have to admit that OpenClaw sounds much better.

They change the name every day.

"They" being the guy (Peter Steinberger) who created it as a personal project that he open sourced.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity. So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting. You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer. Wheth…

I would love AI to take over monitoring. "Alert me when logs or metrics look weird". SIEM vendors often have their special sauce ML, so a bit more open and generic tool would be nice. Manually setting alerting thresholds takes just too much effort, navigating narrow path between missing things and being flooded by messages.

I still think you're going to be in manual threshold tuning for quite a while. The cost of feeding a continuous log to an LLM would be insane. Even if you batched until you filled a context window.
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