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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

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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.

The most interesting part of it to me (that isn't anything particularly special, but I hadn't seen it before) is giving it full file system access so it'll write it's own tools to come back to later.

It's an obvious move in hindsight, but I hadn't thought of it. Now, the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry.

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

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post #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.

This is ultimately the first question I have whenever someone tells me about a bouncing new AI shiny... "Where does my data go?" Because if it does not stay on my machine, hard pass.

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

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post #21

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.

The most interesting part of it to me (that isn't anything particularly special, but I hadn't seen it before) is giving it full file system access so it'll write it's own tools to come back to later. It's an obvious move in hindsight, but I hadn't thought of it. Now, the amount of people running it outside of a sandbox or isolated machine and giving it that kind of access would probably make me cry.

Isn’t that just literally Claude Code’s own “make skill” skill?

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

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post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

I know, but it was a similar pattern, every tech youtuber/twitter were talking about it until it got acquired
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