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Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

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Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#11
These breathy blogposts are getting way ahead of their service uptime. Advertising CF Workers while your CF Worker fleet is under impact is certainly a vibe

> Workers Rate limit Degradation

> Update - We are continuing to work on a fix for this issue.

https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/dk0d6pjt9vjx

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#12
I have a bespoke local agent that I built over the last year, similar in facilities to Moltbot, but more deterministic code.

Running it this kind of agent in the cloud certainly has upsides, but also:

- All home/local integrations are gone.

- Data needs to be stored in the cloud.

No thanks.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#13

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

Most of this hype appears to be coming from grifters who aren't actually connected to the project. So, it's there, but not the fault of the people doing the work.

This has come up in a few recent statements by the project lead, including scammy memecoins and name-sniping. One source:

https://www.theregister.com/2026/01/27/clawdbot_moltbot_secu...

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#14

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

sounds similar to bun, it got super hyped until it was acquired

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#15

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

I mean couldn't this literally have been a OpenCode addon or something standalone or even ollama. Like the hype behind it is really ridiculous and I sort of hate it because I feel like its a grift. I saw an AI generated (not even local llm but some cloud llm SORA) AI video ad of lobster/clawdbot on r/localllama not by any reddit ad (whcih gets block by ubo) but rather by a human. I really got pissed by it and there w…

the only advantage is the claude chrome extension completely sucks and takes forever

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#16
post #4

On one hand, with the top comments of the rebrand post showing how many insecure deployments there are, something like this alongside cloudflare zero trust is probably a much more secure solution. On the other hand, I just wanna point out > Firstly, Cloudflare Workers has never been so compatible with Node.js. Where in the past we had to mock APIs to get some packages running, now those APIs are supported natively by…

  showing how many insecure deployments there are
Insecure how? Even if the dashboard html is publicly accessible, you usually cannot connect without pairing or setting a gateway key.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#17

Clawdbot/Moltbot looks to be a supply-chain attack waiting to happen, and I pity the poor soul who finds out when this ticking time bomb eventually detonates.

i suspect awareness on supply-chain attacks is already low (though it seems to be increasing in recent times). the attack surface is everything an agent can get their hands on.

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#19

There is so much branding and "look at our success" marketing that this project comes off as heavily astro-turfed. Im sure in a month or two we will hear about the new startup the developers are making around this tool. Ultimately its a convenience wrapper that makes it easy to wire up Claude or Chatgpt to a chat platform like discord, but its claiming to be far more revolutionary for reasons I dont yet know.

sounds similar to bun, it got super hyped until it was acquired

Why would you compare them, bun is a complex tech used by real projects

Re: Moltworker: a self-hosted personal AI agent, minus the minis

#20

Clawdbot/Moltbot looks to be a supply-chain attack waiting to happen, and I pity the poor soul who finds out when this ticking time bomb eventually detonates.

i suspect awareness on supply-chain attacks is already low (though it seems to be increasing in recent times). the attack surface is everything an agent can get their hands on.

Just look at the closed PRs of their project. General technical knowledge is so low it's insane. It attracts weird people.
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