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Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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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

No. This is a user using a GitHub feature and claiming it's a clawdbot feature.

They are using GitHub, went on GitHub.com, clicking on the GitHub website and navigating the GitHub interface and saying "wow isn't clawdbot great!"

Responding with the hn equivalent of memes is insulting and offensive

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#142

something feels off to me about the clawdbot hype About the maintainer's github: 688 commits on Nov 25, 2025... out of which 296 commits were in clawdbot, IN ONE DAY, he prolly let lose an agent on the project for a few hours... he has more than 200 commits on an average per day, but mostly 400-500 commits per day, and people are still using this project without thinking of the repercussions) Now, something else i re…

Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun. Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid. He was one of the people in the top chart…

Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#143

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.

these verbs seem appropriate when you accept neutral (MLP) activation as excitement and DL/RL as decision processes (MDPs...)

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#144

Clawdbot finally clicked for me this week. I was renting out an apartment and I had it connect to FB messenger, do the initial screening messages and then schedule times for viewings in my calendar. I was approving it's draft messages but starting giving it some automatic responses as well. Overall it did 9/10 on this task with a couple cases where it got confused. This is just scratching the surface but this was som…

what still doesn't click for me is what can it do that Claude can't do

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

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The whole world is about bundling (and unbundling). Not saying it really is useful, but there are values bundling an easier interface to CC with battery included.

When someone is pushing 500 commits a day, i don't think they have time to review any code, and it was likely written in full YOLO mode. So it's not just batteries-included, it's probably 100-vulnerabilities-included as well

this is the whole message of this hype that you can churn out 500 commits a day relatively confidently the way you have clang churn out 500 assemblies without reading them. We might not be 100% there but the hype is looking slightly into the future and even though I don't see the difference to Claude code, I tend to agree that this is the new way to do things even if something breaks on average it's safe enough

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#146

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Peter Steinberger is a well respected developer that started out in the mobile dev community. He founded a company, then made an exit and is set for money, so he just does things for fun. Yes, he AI generated all of it, go through his articles at https://steipete.me/ to see how he does it, it’s definitely not “vibe coding”, he does make sure that what’s being output is solid. He was one of the people in the top chart…

Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors

GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#147

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

No. This is a user using a GitHub feature and claiming it's a clawdbot feature. They are using GitHub, went on GitHub.com, clicking on the GitHub website and navigating the GitHub interface and saying "wow isn't clawdbot great!" Responding with the hn equivalent of memes is insulting and offensive

I'm genuinely sorry you think that, and it's not my intention to offend you.

However your comment reads exactly like you saying to a Dropbox user "This is a user going to rsync, setting up a folder sync in a cron job, running the cron job, and saying "wow isn't dropbox great".

Sometimes the next paradigm of user interface is a tweak that re-contextualizes a tool, whether you agree with that or not.

Wishing you all the best.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#148

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Projects should be judged on their intrinsic merits and not merely be based on the social media follow count of the authors

GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...

What on earth are you talking about?

The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?"

The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys"

My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#149
This may be amazing. But it's also incredibly scary what it will do, and how many people using it just dont understand the issues.

Also as of the time of writing theres 337 open issues on the repo, many of which are bug reports and security issues. This thing isn't close to stable.

Re: Clawdbot - open source personal AI assistant

#150

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GP is directly discussing the maintainer your comment has nothing to do with the topic discussed...

What on earth are you talking about? The question is "why do people need fainting couches for this project and why are they pretending like 3 year old features of apis that already exist in thousands of projects are brand new innovations exclusive to this?" The answer is: "the author is celebrity and some people are delusional screaming fanboys" My response is: "that's bullshit. let's be adults"

You should really invest in more reading comprehension
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