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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by colecut »

ilitirit wrote: post #193

I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…

A very small percentage of people know how to set up a cronjob.

They can now combine cronjobs and LLMs with a single human sentence.

This is huge for normies.

Not so much if you already had strong development skills.

EDIT: But you are correct in the assessment that people who don't know better will use it to do simple things that could be done millions of times more efficiently..

I made a chatbot at my company where you can chat with each individual client's data that we work with..

My manager tested it by asking it to find a rate (divide this company number by that company number), for like a dozen companies, one by one..

He would have saved time looking at the table it gets its data from, using a calculator.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by StevenNunez »

ilitirit wrote: post #193

I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…

I'll give it a shot. For me it's (promise) is about removing friction. Using the Unix philosophy of small tools, you can send text, voice, image, video to an LLM and (the magic I think) it maintains context over time. So memory is the big part of this.

The next part that makes this compelling is the integration. Mind you, scary stuff, prompt injection, rogue commands, but (BIG BUT) once we figure this out it will provide real value.

Read email, add reminder to register dog with the township, or get an updated referral from your doctor for a therapist. All things that would normally fall through the cracks are organized and presented. I think about all the great projects we see on here, like https://unmute.sh/ and love the idea of having llms get closer to how we interact naturally. I think this gets us closer to that.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by telliott1984 »

sbinnee wrote: post #13

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.

I went to install "moltbot" yesterday, and the binary was still "clawdbot" after installation. Wonder if they'll use Moltbot to manage the rename to OpenClaw.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by Sharlin »

pohl wrote: post #195
Sharlin wrote: post #176

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"Pyramid" is an interesting metaphor to use, given the connotations.

Are you alluding to pyramid schemes or “Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair”?

I was thinking of the former, but the latter could certainly apply too.

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by turnsout »

azinman2 wrote: post #187
turnsout wrote: post #167

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Post it!

A lot of the system prompt, skills and tools center around my specific needs (I manage separate IMAP and Gmail inboxes, use Granola, and have iCloud calendars). And there are some hard assumptions baked in (I want to have a morning & afternoon check-in). It probably wouldn't be useful as-is, but maybe as inspiration?

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by seneca »

ilitirit wrote: post #193

I understand what this does. I don't get the hype, but there are obviously 1000s of people who do. Who are these people? What is the analog for this corner of the market? Context: I'm a 47y/o developer who has seen and done most of the common and not-so-common things in software development. This segment reminds me of the hoards of npm evangelists back in the day who lauded the idea that you could download packages t…

You aren't wrong. There is no real use for this for most people. It's a silly toy that somehow caught the AI hype cycle.

The thing is, that's totally fine! It's ok for things to be silly toys that aren't very efficient. People are enjoying it, and people are interacting with opensource software. Those are good things.

I do think that eventually this model will be something useful, and this is a great source of experimentation.

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Post by thebytefairy »

ikura wrote: post #173
xnorswap wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It looks like you're writing a letter. Would you like help? • Get help with writing the letter • Just type the letter without help [ ] Don't show me this tip again.

Clippy, is that you?

Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by [deleted] »

xnorswap wrote: post #99
voodooEntity wrote: post #39

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…

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Re: OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again

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Post by nsauk » 

    ┌─────┬──────────┬─────────────────────┬───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
    │  #  │   Name   │     Key Commit      │                               Notes                               │
    ├─────┼──────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
    │ 1   │ Warelay  │ 16dfc1a5b (initial) │ Original name - "WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio)"                     │
    ├─────┼──────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
    │ 2   │ CLAWDIS  │ a27ee2366           │ Rebrand - "CLAW + TARDIS"                                         │
    ├─────┼──────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
    │ 3   │ Clawdbot │ 246adaa11           │ Renamed from CLAWDIS                                              │
    ├─────┼──────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
    │ 4   │ Moltbot  │ 3fe4b2595           │ Renamed from Clawdbot (domains switched to molt.bot at 83460df96) │
    ├─────┼──────────┼─────────────────────┼───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┤
    │ 5   │ OpenClaw │ 9a7160786           │ Current name                                                      │
    └─────┴──────────┴─────────────────────┴───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
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